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Affluence and Anxiety Chapter 23
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The Red Scare Russian Revolution Bolshevik Communist revolution
John Reed Ten Days That Shook the World
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The Red Menace and the Palmer Raids Bolshevik strikes
Bomb-throwing radicals A. Mitchell Palmer Red menace J. Edgar
Hoover Red raids Civil liberties? Billy Sunday American Legion
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Race and Religion The Ku Klux Klan Ethnic and Religious
Intolerance William J. Simmons (Ga.) Reconstruction-era Birth of a
Nation Protestant, anti-foreign, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic,
anti-evolution, anti-rum urban Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo
Vanzetti Murder conviction Italian anarchists Henry Ford Dearborn
Independent Anti-semitism
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A Prosperous Economy Rising Standard of LivingRise of the
Corporation Modern conveniences Telephones Cigarette lighters
Reinforced concrete Dry ice Pyrex glass Bathrooms! Electricity The
MERGE Oligopolies General Electric, General Motors, Sears Roebuck
Alfred P. Sloan Compartmentalization Marketing / advertising
Research Welfare capitalism: pensions, cafeterias, vacation
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A Global Automobile Culture Economic impact Petroleum, steel,
rubber Credit Social impact Suburbia: filling station, diner,
overnight cabin Decline: small stores, churches, schools Status
Environmental impact Lincoln Highway Federal Highway Act
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Henry Ford, the Mussolini of Detroit Assembly line
Interchangeable parts Minimum pay increase Strong-handed Model
T
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A Communications Revolution Telephone Radio Movies
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Clash of Values New culture: consumption, pleasure, upward
mobility, sex Traditional values: hard work, thrift, church,
family, home Threats: bolshevism, relativism, Freudianism, and
biblical criticism John Scopes Evolution Clarence Darrow William
Jennings Bryan
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Religious Fundamentalism Literally interpreted Bible Jesus
Christ = salvation Fanatical Billy Sunday Aimee Semple McPherson
The Old Fashioned Revival Hour
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Immigration and Migration Immigration restrictions Literacy
tests Political radicals 3 percent cap 2 percent cap: S, E Europe 0
percent cap: Asia National Origins Act (27) Republican sponsored
Democratic gains Labor Mexicans & Blacks Chicago race riot (19)
Du Bois: We return fighting
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Marcus Garvey: Black Messiah Transformed Washingtons self-help
philosophy Economic political Universal Negro Improvement
Association The Negro World Commercial enterprises Up you mighty
race Universal African Legions Black Star Line Fraud Deported
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Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke The New Negro Black writers,
artists, musicians, intellectuals Black and American Langston
Hughes Weary Blues Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Josephine Baker
Claude McKay Home to Harlem
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The Lost Generation Disillusioned whites World War I F. Scott
Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises E.
E. Cummings T. S. Eliot H. L. Mencken American Mercury
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Women Struggle for Equality Flapper Sexual freedom Margaret
Sanger Birth control Double-standard Workplace National League of
Women Voters National Womens Party Alice Paul Militant
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The Workers Share of Prosperity Rising inequalities Wages: 21
percent Corporate dividends: 66 percent 16 million families earned
less minimum wage Labor unions AFL: conservative United Mine
Workers John L. Lewis
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Harding and Coolidge 1920 Election & beyond1924 Election
& beyond Republicans Harding and Coolidge Smoke-filled
compromise Return to normalcy Democrats James Cox and Roosevelt
Conservatism reigns Corruption Teapot Dome Scandal Best-loved worse
presidents Hardings death Republicans Coolidge and Charles Dawes
Democrats John Davis Progressives Robert La Follette Andrew Mellon
Tax policy Laissez-faire
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Herbert Hoover Engineering humanitarian Commerce Secretary
Harding & Coolidge Food Administration World War I
Standardization procedures Zoning Eight-hour workday Pediatric
nutrition Pollution Act Regulate, stimulate, promote
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Global Expansion Reluctant internationalists Debtor creditor
nation U.S. role Reduce international conflict, resist revolution,
free trade Washington Conference on Naval Disarmament (1921) Naval
arms race Charles Evans Hughes 10-year holiday Tonnage ratios
Increasing influence in Latin America Economic and political
Nicaragua Mexico Great Britain and France debt Fordney-McCumber
Tariff Hawley-Smoot Tariff German debt Kellogg-Briand pact Outlawed
war
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Temperance Triumphant Eighteenth Amendment Patriotism and
Prohibition Pabst, Schlitz, Miller Volstead Act Speakeasies Bathtub
gin Bootlegging Al Capone Repeal
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Election of 1928 Republicans Hoover Protestant drys Rural
Progressive Democrats Alfred Smith Catholic wets Urban Progressive
Results Hoover landslide Democrats won urban vote
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Stock Market Crash Black Thursday 24 Oct 1929 Rampant
speculation Buying on margin Borrowing to invest Weak banking
systems Domestic & international Rise of protectionism Decline
in farm prices