Teapot/dome scandal - navy's potential oil reserve taken by private sector, HAring allowed it
Veteran's Bureau
- Freboes head
- Dealt with medical care of veterans
- Forbes gave contractors extremely land
1920 Election:
- Dominated by WWI aftermath
- Wilson hoped the 1920 election would be referendum on League of natios
- RETURN TO NORMALCY - Harding
- Dominated by Republicans
- Nationalistic and Fundamentalis
1924:
- Coolidge became president in 1923
- Coolidge restored integrity
- Frank Lowden nominated
1928:
- Coolidge didn't run for second term
- Hoover became president
- Was confident in permanent prosperity but faced the great depression in 1930s
- Alfred E. Smith dem candidate
- Slogan: "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage."
Economy/strikes in the 1920s
- Stocks
- Share or part of company
- Presented in market showing changes in value
- Stocks up in 1920 making people more rich
- Why they went up
- Europe destroyed in WWI
- They relied on US economy
- It wasn't extremely pricy for us
- We built everyone back up and it payed back a lot
- "Buy now pay later" Businesses kept selling people stuff and the people didn't pay on the spot, putting the people in debt
- It helped poor/middle class people a lot
- Tariffs were higher so that American businesses would be strengthened
- Protectionism
- Boston police strike
- 3/4 the force went on strike (1100)
- They did it for normal reasons
- Local militia stepped in to take their place
- Us Steel Strike
- Am federation of labor fs us steel corporation
- 350,000 workers
- For better pay and benefits
- Owners slandered them
- Mine worker strike
- Washington agree 1917, puts fines on strikes, $1 a day until you resume work and formed unions
- 14% wage increase
Harlem Renaissance
- Establishment of Harlem
- Dense African American population, inspiring new arts
- Originally mean to be upper class white neighborhoods
- African Americans moved in more and more
- Great Migration (What was it) was where the ex-slaves and sharecroppers moved to the north for better industrial wages
- White people didn't want them in the North
- When they moved to the north, the northerners hated it
- Harlem was a big place to move during that movement
- Louis Armstrong
- Trumpet player
- Activism brought new ideas of African Americans
- African Americans had a new culture to identify with and be a part of
- Laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights movement
- KKK spread from the south and was disbanded during reconstruction
- They reemerged with millions of people during the 20 and every member had to recruit ten more
- They hated anybody who wasn't a white
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