20s
 Laissez Faire (Harding Coolidge and Hoover)
 Culture Conflict (religion v Science, Older v Younger,
Black v White, Nativist v Everyone else, Labor v Business
 KKK, Scopes Trial, Sacco and Vanzetti, Flappers
 Red scare (Russian Rev. , 1919 strikes, Riots, Etc)
 Heroism (Ruth Dempsey Lindberg)
 Harlem Renaissance
 Consumerism (Advertisement, credit, mass production
innovation)
 Prohibition and Gangs
 Pop Culture (Film, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, etc)
 European and Russian Depression
FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE OF THE 20s AND NOT AS MUCH THE DETAILS BELOW
Figures
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
W.J. Bryan
John Scopes
We have covered a great deal of information that is not
objective. The key is to understand the various patterns
and realities of the 1920s. Ideas associated with:
The Red Scare
Immigration Restriction
The Great Migration
The Harlem Renaissance
The birth of the Hero
C. Darrow
Creation of Middle Class Culture
Albert Fall
Creation of Pop culture (Media)
Jack Dempsey
Clash between old and new
Charles Lindberg
Prohibition and results
Duke Ellington
Urbanization
Marcus Garvey
Explosion of a market economy
(other Renaissance figures)
Laissez-Faire Politics
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nativism
Mitchell Palmer
Women’s social liberation
Capone
Teapot Dome Scandal
Organizations
Legislation
KKK
18th Amendment
Wall Street Market
19th Amendment
Market and Ads
Immigration Quotas 1920 v 1924
Booming economy
Revenue Act 1927
Credit (installment payments)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
New items
Dawes Plan
Billboards
Kellogg—Brian Pact
Radio
Sheppard-Towner Act
Magazines and Newspapers
Catalogs
Malls
 DEPRESSION 1930s Beginning with the 1929 CRASH
 Causes
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Speculation
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Buying on Margin
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Buying on Credit
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Unequal Distribution of Wealth
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Economy based on non-perishables
 Comparing to recent
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Today’s Real Estate
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Ponzi Scheme (Carlo Ponzi and Bernie Madalf)
 Hoovers Reaction
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Based on his upbringing (hard life)
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff and Consequences
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Opposition to direct relief
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Home Loan Bank Board
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Refusal of Bonus Army request
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Calling in of troops
 FDR Takes Office
o
Cousin of Teddy
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Rise to office
o
Governor of New York
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Polio
 New Administration
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1st Lady Eleanor
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Sec of Labor—Perkins
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Mary McLeod Bethune
 New Deal
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First orders of business
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Emergency Bank Holiday
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Lame Duck Amendment (20th)
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) –Unconstitutional
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National Recovery Act (NRA)—Unconstitutional
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Glass-Stiegel Act and
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***Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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**National Labor Relations Act, National Labor Relations Board, and the Wagner Act (All Connected)
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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**Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Emergency Banking Act (EBA)
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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**Social Security Act
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Indian Reorganization Act
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**Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
 Opposition to New Deal
o
Father Coughlin
o
Huey Long
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Share the Wealth
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Vey liberal/radical
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Assassination
o
Too much govt.
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No free market
o
Too much deficit spending
 International policy
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Ease restrictions on Latin America
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End of Platt Amendment
Recognize Russia
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Trading with Russia
 Life in depression
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Actual depression
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Dust Bowl
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Overuse of land
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Drought
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Okies-heading for cali
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Riding the rails
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Vagrancy
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Fireside chats and importance of radio and confidence
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Labor—Wagner Act and mass numbers of strikes
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Unconstitutional legislation
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Longshoremen strike
NRA and AAA
Court Packing
 Failures of the New Deal (Needed to ensure bipartisan support in congress)
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Women, blacks and other minorities not addressed as much
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No anti-lynching bill
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Sharecroppers
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No domestic regulation
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No attention to Mexican-Am.
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Did not stop the depression
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Leaving America to Russia for jobs