Monday-
Political Career started in 1898, influenced Republican Party Leaders
- 1918 elected Govenor
- National Spotlight boston police force strike
in 1920 he was chosen as vice president
- Reduce income tax
- Immigration act of 1924
- The National Origins Act of 1924 Immigration Restriction Permanment
- The 1926 Air Commrence Act
- The 1928 Kellog Briand Act- 62 contries outlaw war
- Stock Market Crash
- Causes, Large Bank Loans, Low Wages, Lack of goverment involvement- pooling + buying on margin, credit use
- Taking out loans from bank for cars, houses, 10% down and buy a bunch of stock- buying stocks on margin, over value stock prices,
- What happened
- Black Thursday 12,984,650 Stocks traded, Investment companies bought stocks, moderate rally on Friday, Monday- market went into freefall
- Black Tuesday- stock prices collapsed, 16,410,030 traded shares
- Billions of dollars were lost- wiped out thousands of investors
- Stock tickers fell behind because how many shares were being sold and traded
- Effects, suicide rates went up, prices dropped, 1932 stocks only worth 20% of their value
- Was a symptom of great depression
-Tuesday
-What was the red scare and what impact did it have on the US?
The Red scare was a time after ww1, and it made the government scared from Communism. Reduced immigration, lots of strikers were labeled as communist, led to two radical immigrants from italy, government put them to death
- Automobiles, been around since 1880's, GM, Chrysler, Ford, mechanics, builidng roads, parking lots, garages, tons of jobs, live where you want suburbs, go on vacation, go to other places
- Airplanes, transporting mails, militiary reasons, entertainment, first to do what fly where fly longest etc
- Charles Lindbergh Lucky Lindy- he was a hero, biggest star in the 1920's, first person to fly over seas nonstop
- Amelia Earheart first women to fly, hawaii to calfornia, fly around the world, she dispparied paupua new guinea, proably crashed and died
Wednesday- NO SCHOOL
Thursday- Test Part 1
Friday- Test part 2
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