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Chapter 23 Ids
Roaring 20s

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Henry Ford

In 1927 he introduced the stylish Model A in various

colors

He started the Ford Motor Company

Started the Assembly line

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Warren G. Harding

Ohio senator who was picked by GOP conservatives to

run for president in the 1920 convention

He swamped his Democratic opponent James m. cox in

the election

He made some notable cabinet selections and some

disastrous appointments

He died in 1923 after suffering a heart attack

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Charles Evans Hughes

former new york governor and 1916 presidential

candidate

Appointed by harding for secretary of state

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Andrew Mellon

Pittsburgh financier

Appointed by harding for treasury secretary

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Herbert Hoover

Wartime food czar

Appointed by harding for secretary of commerce

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Teapot Dome

Shorthand label for a tangle of scandals

Interior secretary fall went to jail for leasing

government oil reserves, one in teapot dome,
wyoming, to oilmen in return for a $400,000 bribe

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Calvin Coolidge

Vice president to harding

He became president after hardings death

He had a carefully crafted image as silent cal, a

yankee embodiment of old-fashioned virtues

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McNary-Haugen Bill

A price-support plan under which the government

would purchase the surplus of six basic farm
commodities cotton, corn, rice, tobacco, hogs, and
wheat at their average price in 1909-1914. the
government would then sell these surpluses abroad at
market prices and recover the difference through a tax
on domestic sales of these commodities

Coolidge vetoed this bill twice

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Washington Naval Arms
Conference

After the war ended, the U.S., Great Britain, and Japan edged
toward a dangerous naval arms race

In 1921, secretary of state hughes called a washington

conference to address the problem

He outlined a specific ratio of warships among the worlds

naval powers

Great Britain, japan, italy, and france accepted hughess plan

and the u.s. and japan also pledged to respect each others
territorial holdings in the pacific

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Sheppard-Towner Act

Funded rural prenatal and baby-care centers staffed by

public-health nurses

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Ku Klux Klan

Preached 100% Americanism, the Klan demonized

blacks, Catholics, jews, aliens, and, in some cases,
women suspected of violating sexual taboos

Membership estimates for the kkk and its womens

auxiliary in the early 1920s range as high as 5 million

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Alfred E. Smith

New yorks catholic governor of irish, german, and

italian immigrant origins

Championed by the big-city delegates

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Charles Lindbergh

Daredevil stunt pilot who flew solo across the atlantic in

his small single-engine, The Spirit of St. Louis, on May
20-21, 1927

His success gripped the publics imagination

He became a blank screen onto which people projected

their hopes, fears, and ideologies

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist and critic

He launched the iconoclastic American Murray

magazine, an instant success with alienated
intellectuals and college youth in 1924

He championed writers like lewis and dreiser

He ridiculed politicians, protestant fundamentalism,

and the middle class Booboisie

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National Origins Act

Restricted annual immigration from any foreign country

to 2% of the number of persons of that national origin
in the united states in 1890

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Sacco-Vanzetti Case

A massachusetts murder case that began in april 1920,

when robbers shot and killed a paymaster and guard in
south braintree, Massachusetts, shoe factory

In 1921, a jury convicted two italian immigrants, nicola

sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti, of the crime

After many appeals and a review by a blue-ribbon

panel of notables, they were electrocuted on August
23, 1927

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Fundamentalism

Named after the fundamentals, a series of tracts

published in 1909-1914

Fundamentalists insisted on the Bibles inerrancy and

literal truth, including the Genesis account of Creation

In the early 1920s, fundamentalists targeted darwins

theory of evolution

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Scopes Trial

Tennessee outlawed the teaching of evolution in public

schools in 1925

John t. scopes challenged this law by teaching

evolution in his class and he was arrested

The jury found him guilty (later reversed on a

technicality)

Exposed fundamentalism to ridicule

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Marcus Garvey

Founded the universal negro improvement association (UNIA)

Urged black economic solidarity and capitalist enterprise as

the lever of racial advance, he founded UNIA grocery stores
and other businesses

Summoned blacks to return to africa and he established the

Black star steamship line to help them gte there

In 1923, a federal court convicted garvey of fraud in the

management of his black star steamship line and he was
deported in 1927 and UNIA collapsed

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Prohibition

The prohibition campaign was both a legitimate effort to address

social problems associated with alcohol abuse and a symbolic
crusade by native-born protestants to control the immigrant cities

When the 18th admendment took effect in 1920, prohibitionists

rejoiced, saloons closed, liquor advertising vanished, and arrests for
drunkeness declined

Prohibition gradually lost support and ended in 1933

The laws were not strictly enforced and the appeal for alcohol
increased because it was illegal

The prohibition brought rum-runners and gangsters who would

smuggle alcohol