A. Mitchell Palmer
Fighting Quaker", went a little crazy w/ "seeing red"; suspected/jailed 6,000 people, Attorney general
John Dewey
Father of progressive education, was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education.
John T. Scopes
Biology teacher who voluntarily tought evolution and got arrested
Clarence Darrow
John Scope's defense attorney for Scope's "Monkey Trial" vs. William Jennings Bryan
Andrew Mellon
treasury secretary, favored expansion of capital investment, tax policies, successfully pushed congress to lower taxes
Bruce Barton
wrote a book called "Man Nobody Knows" about Jesus and how he is the best "ad man".
Henry Ford
1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
Frederick Taylor
inventor, tennis player, engineer, sought to eliminate wasted motion in engine
Margaret Sanger
feminist who strongly pushed and supported the birth control movement
Sigmund Freud
Viennese doctor who said that it was "sex o'clock" in america because of all the sexual repression
H.L Mencken
bad boy of Baltimore", young author; published the monthly American Mercury; assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition, Rotarians, and the middle class Americans; dismissed the South and attacked the Puritans
F. Scott Fitzgerald
writer of "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" who coined the term "Jazz Age
Ernest Hemingway
One of the most popular writers of the 1920's who wrote "A Farewell to Arms
Sinclair Lewis
United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
Buying on Margin
Purchasing stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
Red Scare
a period of general fear of communists, A. Mitchell Palmer convicted many during red scare, general chaos and fear of Russians
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Italians convicted of murder, bias jury because they were anarchists and atheists
Kl Klux Klan (1920s)
nativism, only liked Anglo Saxon Protestants, American born people
Emergency Quota Act 1921
newcomers/immigrants from Europe were restricted in any given year to a quota, set at 3%
Immigration Quota Act 1924
cut quota for foreigners to 2% instead of 3%, marked end of unrestricted immigration in US
Volstead Act
specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors
Fundamentalism
emphasis of literal reading of the bible
Modernists
artists that sought to capture immediate experiences of the natural world....
Flappers
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
Charles Evan Hughes
new secretary of state under Harding--> masterful and brilliant, dominating leadership
Andrew Mellon
sec of treasury, multimillionaire collector of paintings
Herbert Hoover
sec of commerce, made his job important, good w/ foreign trade for US manufacturers
Albert B. Fall
scheming anti-conservationist, corrupt sec of interior
Harry M. Daugherty
big time crook in Ohio Gang, corrupt attorney general
Charles R. Forbes
head of the Veterans Bureau, was caught stealing $200 million from the government, chiefly in connection with the building of veterans' hospitals.
Robert LaFollette
pompous senator from WI- AFL endorsed his prez nominee-->headed crumbing progressive party
Alfred E. Smith
Governor of New York who ran as a Democrat for the 1928 elections
Ohio Gang
A group of poker-playing, men that were friends of President Warren Harding. Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even though he wasn't in
Washington conference
(1921) Conference of major powers to reduce naval armaments among Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States.
Kellogg Briand Pact
agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
a huge tariff increase, 27-38.5%, duties on farm produce increased
Teapot Dome Scandal
senator fall convinced denby to give him control of oil fields (teapot dome). He leased this fields to sinclair (major oil company) and in return recieved bribes secretly
McNary-Haugen Bill
sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the govt. to buy surpluses and sell them abroad
Dawes Plan
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S.
Hawley Smoot Tariff
reduced flow of goods into united states and prevented other countries from earning american currency to buy american goods
Black Tuesday
the day when they tried to sell millions of shares in a desperate attempt to save the economy
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
govt. lending bank, provided indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural enterprises, etc.
Bonus Army
WWI veterans who marched on Washington demanding their $1,000 bonus pay before the 1945 due date
Hoover-Stimson doctrine
the US would not recognize any territorial acquistions achieved by force
American Legion
group of WWI veterans to let off steam--> demanded compensation and famous for militant patriotism
Adjusted Compensation Act
veterans finally got paid what they wanted
Railway Labor Board
successor to wartime labor board--> wage cut provoking a 2 month strike
Adkins vs. Children's Hospital
women became legal equals to men
Calvin Coolidge
Cautious Calvin", "cool calvin", president from Vermont after Harding, painfully shy and only mediocre leadership skills, rigid man in practices and personality
Dawes Plan
Charles Dawes- rescheduled German reparation payments & opened the way for further American private loans to Germany
Farm Board
lent money to farmer organizations seeking to buy, sell, and store surpluses
Muscle Shoals Bill
Bills that would allocate funds to dam the Tennessee River and provide employment, is vetoed by Hoover
Yellow Dog Contracts
Contracts that people signed that promised they would NOT join any kind of Labor Union. This protected big companies from loosing their employees
Douglas MacArthur
general who broke up the Bonus Army with bayonets and tear gas
rugged individualism
The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal. Popularly said by Hertbert Hoover.