front 1 liberty Bonds | back 1 result of a law passed by Congress that allowed gov to petition the people to help pay was. liberty bonds were sold to businesses in |
front 2 selective service act | back 2 There weren't enough men volunteering to deploy an army after the US declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 Why was it controversial? Why did congress feel the selective congress act was necessary in 1917? |
front 3 Espionage act 1917 | back 3 used by wilson admin to silence WW1 critics. |
front 4 sedition act 1918 | back 4 used by wilson admin to silence WW1 critics. imposed harsh penalties to make 'false' statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war |
front 5 Eugene V Debbs: union leader, founding member of industrial workers | back 5 arrested for his involvement opposition to war What is the significance of a law being upheld by the supreme court? |
front 6 schneck v US | back 6 Charles Schenck of the socialist party opposed USE participation during WW1 . He was arrested for violating the espionage act after chasing 15000 leaflets urging resistance to the draft in the supreme court, they decided free speech can be limited under certain circumstances |
front 7 First Red scare | back 7 first red scare was a period of time were the US gov hated radical, communist(influenced by Karl Marx), and anarchist palmer raids- attorney general Richard palmer arrested 'suspected communist n anarchist sacco and vanzeti -italian immigrants convicted of murder weak evidence they were jsut killed for being 'communist' |
front 8 welfare (social) capitalism | back 8 the policy adopted by companies in the 1920s of offering benefits such as profit sharing and pension plans in an effort to make unions less appealing |
front 9 scopes ttrial (monkey) | back 9 Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan squared off in this famous Tennessee trial about teaching evolution in public schools. |
front 10 harlem renaissance | back 10 in 1918 the grea migration led to the african american settlement in Harlem brough art, changing the demographic of the mostly white community. |
front 11 warren g harding 39th president | back 11 1865, us senator voted for his good looks |
front 12 calvin coolidge former republican 1923 (modern day conservatism) | back 12
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front 13 herbert hoover; philanthropist 1928 | back 13 recruited by wilson. harding and coolidge asked him to organize economy as a secretary of commerce. an economic disaster spent sm |
front 14 teapot dome "return to mormalcy"- harding isolationism | back 14 After WW1:
plagued by teapot dome scandal in hardings cabinet member illegally traded gov land to oil companies in exchange for bribes |
front 15 herb hoover and hooverville | back 15 caused great depression hoover dam and hooverville homes for the homeless |
front 16 hawley smoot tariff 1930 passed by house n senate h ford and hoover begging to veto bill | back 16 1929 great depression hits and want protecction from foreign Protecctionism us rather have a us worer making sth for them rather than buying from another country bc spending american money in other countries isnt going to help stimulate us economy hawley n smoot believed if US raised tariffs on imported goods then thAT would give american farmers and merchants a better shot at having competetive prices o namerican goods This bills is passed and tariffs raised the foreign countries get mad and raise their tariffs as well as retaliation and raises taxes sparking great depression roosevelt runs on the platform to lower tariffs |
front 17 public works admin 1933-39 | back 17 new deal by roosevelt after hoovers presidency created various groups to reverse unemployment and retosre prosperity. Pwa aimed to lift off finacial struggles of people deeply affected by the great depression. it built highways and public building to reduce unemployment. ended because Roosevelt wanted to fund the war economy as WW2 \was approaching |
front 18 emergency banking relief act 1933 | back 18 implented as a response to the banking crisis during the great depression aiming to stabalize economy the former known commonly as the Glass-Steagall Act, signed into law by FDR. The 1933 act separated commercial banking from investment banking, established the FDIC, and created the FOMC at the Federal Reserve; the act of 1935 reorganized the FOMC to transfer power from the New York Fed to the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. |
front 19 1936-39 2nd new deal | back 19 election 1936 demo=fdr *winner rep=alfred landon |
front 20 wagner act 1935 | back 20 protected right of workders to join unions andbargaing collectively NLR national labor relations: hear testimony about unfair practices and to hold elections to find out if works wanted union representation |
front 21 fair labor standards acts | back 21 work hrs= 44 hrs a week min wage=25 cents/hr |
front 22 John Maynard Keynes: The economists was a British economist who had a huge impact on national and international economic policy. neoliberism increase gov spending and decrease tax keynesiam= interest rates fall | back 22 believe treaty of versailles 1919 punished germany too severly lead to collapse of weimler and rise of nazi neoclassical econ
Keynesian ecopn
potential influence w roosevelt and new deal aka help groups |