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- Politics
- president Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
- worst presidents
- Harding
- scandals
- Hoover
- great depression
- Harding
- Coolidge
- didn't say much
- worst presidents
- republican philosophy
- trickle-down theory
- economic belief that gives tax breaks to rich
- rich will create more jobs
- normalcy
- keep to our selves, focus on US
- rugged individualism
- up to you to get stuff done
- laissez-faire-
- laid back, gov won't get involved in businesses
- trickle-down theory
- scandals
- teapot dome scandal
- albert fall sold land to rich people
- rich bribed him to do this
- teapot dome scandal
- harding died of sickness
- coolidge (vp) took over
- president Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
- entertainment
- dance
- sports
- actors
- economy
- GDP and GDP per person continually rised until 1930
- stocks market boomed
- "buy now, pay later"
- high tariff policy
- progressives
- lowered because of competition
- republicans
- higher because you will buy american goods (one cause of great depression)
- progressives
- permanent prosperity
- "as long as everyone has faith, everything will be fine."
- The red scare
- red was associated with communism
- we were concerned that communism/bloshivekism/anarchism would take over our country
- karl marx (german)
- founded idea of communism
- middle and lower classes wanted to take over the rich and create equality
- vladimir lenin
- marxist
- gov will fade, people will gain wealth
- died
- stalhn takes over
- marxist
- palmer raids
- commusists bombed mitchell palmers house
- thought that all communists wanted to ruin the US
- palmer and edgar hoover deported many people
- thought that all communists wanted to ruin the US
- commusists bombed mitchell palmers house
- sacco and vanzetti
- italian immigrants and anrchists
- accused of killing a paymaster
- not a lot of proof, but they got the electric chair because they were italian immigrants and anrchists
- KKK
- anti immigrint, anti catholic, anti communism, anti blacks
- they were christians
- immigration act of 1924
- aimed at restricting immigration of southern/eastern europeans and jews
- harlem (NY) renissance
- rebirth of african american culture
- jazz music
- art/literature
- marcus garvey
- "black is beautiful"
- rebirth of african american culture
- labor unions/strikes
- costs to be in a labor union
- the more people you have in a labor union, the better off you are
- many strikes
- normally didn't work
- if you were on strike, you normally got into trouble
- might go on strike for better pay, hours, etc
- electricity
- iron
- model t
- light
- curling iron
- washing machine
- vacuum
- cars
- made it easier to
- go on vacations
- go on dates
- made it easier to
- Airplanes
- used for
- stunts
- flying over oceans to different places
- war efforts
- ammo
- bombs
- sometimes flew people
- invented by wright brothers
- lucky lindy
- biggest hero of the 20s
- bigger than babe ruth
- flew nonstop across atlantic hours
- amelia airhart
- 1st woman to fly across pacific
- 1st woman to fly across atlantic
- trying to fly across the whole world and crashed/died near howland island
- used for
- Scopes monkey trial
- in 1925 Tennessee passed the 1st law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
- john scopes was a biology teacher that taught evolution in school even though it was illegal
- scopes was found guilty
- paid fine of $100
- it was overturned by the tenessee gov later on
- william jennings bryan was the special prosecutor
- Causes of stock market crash
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