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Wages for urban workers increased by 20ish% because the falling cost of mass-production goods.
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Disarmament : a major political issue, delegates from major combatants of the WWI met to tried and agree on a reduction in weapons.
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Prohibition was introduced, because it was thought that alcohol caused people to do bad things. 18th ammendment is passed
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"Main Street"
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state capital. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart.
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They were more liberated, wore shorter dresses, flappers.
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Modernism clashed w/ traditionalism dramatically in modern art
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Jazz emerges in New Orlands. Louis Armstrong great trumpet player
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Westinghouse company started radio station KDKA in PA.
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Welfare Capitalism
Businesses policies toward employees to increase loyalty. Set up cafeterias, medical clinics, published employee newsletters, gave awards to employees -
Budget & Accounting Act of 1921
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Sheppard-Towner Maternity & Infancy Act Provided federal funding for maturnity leave, and for child care.
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American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
First published in The Crisis 1921 -
Immigration Act of 1912
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Began American's love of material objects. They all turned into to material girls, because they lived in a material world.People valued their worth off the goods they surrounded themselves with.
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Secretary Albert Fall accepted large sums of money from private oil companies then allowed themto control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming.
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It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Has themes about economics, governance and culture
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Cane
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Founded the Foursquare Church used radio for preaching.
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1924 Reed-Johnson Act
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John T. Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution to high schoolers.
Trial represented the Fundamentalists vs. the Modernists. -
Sports heros like Babe Ruth gave Americans Hope.
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The Great Gatsby
A mysterious millionaire holds extravagant parties in order to gain the attention of an old flame. Focuses on peoples wealth in the 20s. -
A group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls.
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Movie studios came into being. Silent films, but talkies did exist.
Charlie Chaplin, Randolph Valentino, William S. Hart -
A Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Home to Harlem (1928)
Banjo (1929)
Banana Bottom (1933
Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem -
"Farewell to Arms"
set during the Italian campaign of World War I. wrote of men alienated from society -
States introduced a gas tax that raised millions of dollars per year to pay for new roads that needed to be built.
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Loaned money to farmers to create and strengthen farm cooperatives
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. Starting the great depression.
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Black Tuesday
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Set tax increases, 31 to 49 percent, on foreign imports
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Bonus Army
WW I veterans tried to pressure Congress to pay them their retirement bonuses early. Angry veterans marched on Washington, D.C. when a bill was not passed. -
Good Neighbor Policy
Was about non-intervention and non-interference in Latin Americas domestic affairs. It was expected to create new economic opportunities reassert the influence of the United States in Latin America. -
Prohibition is ended, this is the first time an ammendment is taken off the consitution.
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1933 National Industrial Recovery Act
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1933 Glass-Steagall Act
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1933 Emergency Banking Relief Act
A bank holiday and closed down all the banks to be inspected, only stable bancks reopened -
1933 Civil Works Administration
Provided work in federal jobs -
1933 Public Works Administration
Large-scale public works construction. Built public works like dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools -
1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed -
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps
Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects -
The first drought in the Dust Bowl
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Banking act of 1935
Created seven-member to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans -
1935 Rural Electrification Administration
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1935 National Youth Administration
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1935 Works Progress Administration
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American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist.
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1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
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Forced many people from Oklahoma to migrate to California and other states.
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1934 Securities and Exchange Commission
created to provide governance of securities transactions and to regulate exchanges and broker-dealers to protect the investing public.
