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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