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RB: Chapter 23: A New Era: The 1920
 * 1) Republican Control
 * 2) Business Doctrine: rep like gov regulations for stable business
 * 3) The Presidency of Warren Harding: tie, party bosses give Harding pres.
 * 4) A few good choices: chose good people for cabinet/ Supreme Chief, pardoned Eugene Debs
 * 5) Domestic policy: ↓ income tax, ↑ tariffs, Bureau of Budget
 * 6) Scandals and death: Teapot Dome-A. Fall bribes for oil leases on reserve property, Harding aid
 * 7) The presidency of Calvin Coolidge: follow Harding, shy
 * 8) The Election of 1924: Rep – Coolidge, Dem-John W. Davis, progressive-Robert La Follette. C won
 * 9) Vetoes and inaction: close watch budgets, no bonus WWI vets, veto bill to help farmers w/ ↓ crop prices
 * 10) Hoover, Smith, and the Election of 1928: rep-Hoover, dem-Smith, H won
 * 11) Mixed Economic Development
 * 12) Causes of Business Prosperity
 * 13) Increased productivity: research make more items, assembly line
 * 14) Energy technologies: ↑ oil/electricity, cars,
 * 15) Government policy: big bus, corporate tax cuts, no antitrust law
 * 16) Farm Problems: ↓ prices after WWI, surplus crops
 * 17) Labor Problems: ↓ ppl in Unions, nullify laws to protect workers’ welfare
 * 18) A New Culture
 * 19) The Jazz Age: college/high school students “invent”, blacks to N, modern
 * 20) Consumerism
 * 21) Impact of the automobile: less RR travel, and social impacts, traffic, death
 * 22) Entertainment: radio-music, movies-theaters, sound movies
 * 23) Popular heroes: politicians (Bryan, Roosevelt, Wilson) sports (box-Dempsey, swim-Ederle, ftbll-Thorpe, bsbll-Ruth, golf-Jones) pilot-Charles Lindbergh
 * 24) Gender Roles, Family, and Education
 * 25) Women at home: women in middle class still stayed at home
 * 26) Women in the labor force: live in cities but not many jobs
 * 27) Revolution in morals: sex more common, birth control outlawed
 * 28) Divorce: women escape abusive/incompatible husbands, ↑ rate 1:6
 * 29) Education: high school graduate increase by 25%
 * 30) Religion
 * 31) Modernism: Modernists-protestants, new views on Bible
 * 32) Fundamentalism: God created universe in 7 days
 * 33) Revivalists on the radio: preachers on radio, speak of bad of time
 * 34) The Literature of Alienation: “lost generation” wrote ideals of earlier time
 * 35) Art: industrial design, look good and function properly, less design
 * 36) Harlem Renaissance: African American place in New York City
 * 37) Poets and musicians: poems-range of emotions bitter to joy, Jazz Age-popular to whites and blacks
 * 38) Marcus Garvey: from Jamaica, individual/racial pride, develop political idea black nationalism
 * 39) Cultures in Conflict
 * 40) Fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial: Tennessee bio teacher (John Scopes) taught Darwin’s theory so was arrested
 * 41) The trial: Scopes lawyer, Clarence Darrow, make William Jennings Bryan look foolish. Bryan died of stroke soon after trial
 * 42) Aftermath: Scope convicted but overturn, laws still but not enforce
 * 43) Prohibition: no alcoholic beverages since 1919
 * 44) Defying the law: speakeasies in cities where liquor was sold. Police paid to look other way. Became big business
 * 45) Political discord and repeal: 18th amendment repealed by 21st
 * 46) Nativism: immigration and prejudice ↑
 * 47) Quota laws: laws that congress pass so 3% come, then 2% unlimited immigration ended
 * 48) Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: poor Italians tried of killing and robbing. Liberals say innocent but still executed in 1927
 * 49) Ku Klux Klan: agains blacks, Catholics, Jews, foreigners, communists
 * 50) Tactics: white hoods, burn crosses, whips, tar&feathers, hangman’s noose, strong political influence
 * 51) Decline: leaders convicted of murder, membership declined
 * 52) Foreign Policy: The Fiction of Isolation
 * 53) Disarmament and Peace
 * 54) Washington Conference (1921): Sec of State Charles Evans Hughes, hope to stabilize the size of US Navy
 * 55) Five-Power Treaty: US, Br, Ja, Fr, It split battleships ratio
 * 56) Four-Power Treaty: US, Fr, GB, Ja respect terri in Pac
 * 57) Nine-Power Treaty: Open Door policy of China
 * 58) Kellogg-Briand Pact: agreement to stop wars. Ineffective because defensive wars ok, no action stated if went against teaty
 * 59) Business and Diplomacy
 * 60) Latin America: Mex: gov own all oil/mineral resources, US troops remain US investments in LA doubled
 * 61) Middle East: US and GB go oil form Middle East
 * 62) Tariffs: high tariffs on goods outside of own country US and GB
 * 63) War Debts and Reparations
 * 64) Dawes Plan: cycle of payments form US to Ger to Allies (pay off all debts) but when stock market crashed Dawes plan ineffective
 * 65) Legacy: Finland only nation repayed all the way, greed everywhere