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20s Culture Review . Nativism and Immigration issues Prohibition and its effects Rise of entertainment and mass media Advertising/Consumerism Jazz Age/Effects of Great Migration/Harlem Renaissance Fundamentalism vs Modernism Women in the 20s Innovations (flight, Model T, radio, talkies). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
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