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31 Cards in this Set
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"America First", Scandal, Self made man, delegation, Hard Drinker during prohibition
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President Warren Harding 1921-1923
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Balanced Budget, Reduced Debt, Cut Taxes, Easy Credit, Prosperity by supporting Business.
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President "Silent Cal" Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
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"Rugged Individualism", Self made man, Voluntary co-operation
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President Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
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Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes
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Warren Harding's leaders of Commerce and Foreign Affairs
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Car manufacturer, Taylorism, Mass Production, Birth of large Industrial Complexes, no Trade Unions, Large Impact
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Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company
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John Styth Pemberton
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Creator of Coca-Cola. Prohibition fueled the soft drinks industry
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John Torrio
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Italian-American Mafia Boss. Cicero (Chicago), Gang Teritories, Bribery of officials, Retired in 1925 with $30mil
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Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson
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Mayor of Cicago, Bribed by John Torrio, stifled police intervention into Gangsters
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Al Capone
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Italian-American Mafia Boss. Cicero (Chicago), Gang Teritories, St Valentine's Bay Massacre (Bug's Moran), 400 murders, 11 years for Tax evasion
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Elliot Ness
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FBI who caught and imprisoned Al Capone for tax evasion
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Nellie Taylor Ross 1924
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First female Elected State Governor (Wyoming)
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Bertha Knight Landes 1926
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First female Mayor of a city (Seattle)
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Carrie Chapman Catt 1920
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National League of Women Voters tried to raise awareness of new opportunities but few were interested
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William Jenning Bryan
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Fundamentalist Christian, Banned Darwinism in schools, Won the Scopes Trial
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John Scopes
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Biology Teacher in Dayton Tennessee, centre of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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American Civil Liberties Union
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When William Jennings Bryan banned Evolutionism, they saw it as a breach of Civil liberties and financed the Scopes Trial
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Michell Palmer
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Lead the "Red Scare" in 1919-1920, Paranoia and suspicion, 6000 "aliens" who were imprisoned or expelled, only 6 handguns
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Anarchists feared to be Communists, accused of robbery and murder, biased trial and Judge. suspect evidence, death sentence
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Judge Webster Thayer
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Convicted Sacco and Vanzetti on circumstancial evidence sparking riots in Paris and Berlin
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Historian : Micheal Heale "20th Century America" 2004
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Smaller scale depressions happened before BUT developed complexity meant that as corporations suffered theer was a wider impact
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Historian : JK Galbraith
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US economy was "Fundamentaly Unsound", There were few speculators but the Crash killed the myth - the confidence
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Historian : Paul Johnson
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Hoover did too much (Public Works, Tariffs) and should have let teh Depression right its self
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General Douglas McArthur
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General who moved along the first Bonus Army and fired on veterans
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Historian (Monetarist) : Milton Friedman
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Money in circulation declined, Rise in Discount rate from 1.5-3.5% reduced industrial production by 25%
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Charles A. Mitchell
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President of NY National City Bank $25Million into Stock Market in time of crisis "Single most irresponsible desision of 1929"
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Father Charles Coughlin
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Radio Sation, First endorsed FDR but then became more conservative, hated international bankers, anti-semitic
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Huey Long
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"The Kingfish", radical populaist policies, "Share our Wealth", Class resentment, thought FDR didn't go far enough
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Dr Richard E. Townsend
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Revolving Old-Age Pension, end depression through consumer spending, $200pmonth must be spent, plan was unworkable
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Historian : Arthur Schlesinger
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Second New Deal, most scholars think it's a move from Right to Left, more working class and fewer businessmen
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Senator James F. Byrnes
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Headed Office of Economic Stabilisation later called the Office of War Mobilisation
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Headed the FBI. after 1940 surveillence activities
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