20s Culture Review Nativism and Immigration

issuesProhibition and its effectsRise of entertainment and

mass mediaAdvertising/Consumerism Jazz Age/Effects of Great

Migration/Harlem Renaissance

Fundamentalism vs Modernism

Women in the 20s Innovations (flight, Model

T, radio, talkies)

In what ways did the lifestyle of the 1920s cause the Great Depression?

Republican Presidents (GOP)High tariffsLow taxes for the wealthyLaissez faire economicsIsolationism

End of War War Industries Board

falls Cummins

Transportation Act: private consolidation of railroads

Merchant Marine Act: Shipping Board shrinks navy considerably

Daugherty fights against unions

Protects veterans- Adjusted Compensation Act, Veterans Bureau

Fordney McCumber Tariff

Harding “Return to normalcy”Return of the

“Old Guard”Laissez faire

economicsKills off

Progressive reforms: Adkins v Children’s Hospital, antitrust laws aren’t enforced

Foreign RelationsFour Power Treaty, Five Power Naval Treaty,

Nine Power Naval TreatyWashington Disarmament ConferenceKellog Briand Pact “Pact of Paris”“Isolationism” despite interest in Middle

East

CorruptionTea Pot Dome ScandalForbes: Stealing from Veterans BureauDaugherty: illegal sale of pardons

Election of 1924

Silent Cal CoolidgeThe man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Struggles of farmers: McHary Haugen Bill (purchases surpluses and sells overseas, vetoed twice)

Creation of the “farm bloc” and the Capper Volstead Act

Dawes Plan Andrew Mellon and the Mellonites Revenue Act of 1924: lowered

income taxes, increased estate taxes

Herbert Hoover“Rugged individualism”,

“self help”Agricultural Marketing

Act-Federal Farm BoardHawley Smoot Tariff (2nd

highest of all US history)“trickle down

economics”- Hoover Damn, Muscle Shoals Bill

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Norris LaGuardia Anti Injunction Act

Bonus Army

Foreign IssuesJapan invades

ChinaStinson

Doctrine- America will not recognize land taken by force

Good Neighbor Policy- non intervention and non interference

Causes of the Great Depression Overproduction of

goods Drops in farm

prices Droughts in Great

Plains and Mississippi Valley

Laissez faire economics

Buying on credit Buying stocks on

margin Speculative

investments High tariffs (Smoot-

Hawley) Gap in incomes