Carol Lee

Chapter 24 The New Era

1) Charles A. Lindbergh
a. Lindbergh was nicked The Lone Eagle and became an American idol
after his transatlantic flight.
b. Though he was very popular he still held individual achievements, self
reliance and courage as his values. This adventure reveals that this era was
an era of contrast and complexity.
2) the installment plan
a. These were time payment plans where things were bought on credit.
b. These plans drove new consumerism and Americans acquired spending
money and leisure time.
3) oligopolies
a. This was the control of an entire industry by a few large firms.
b. By the 1920s these dominated production, marketing, distribution, and
finance.
4) the new lobbying
a. This happens when hundreds of organizations seek to convince federal
and state legislatures to support their interests because governments had an
influential role.
b. Because of this government policies helped business thrive and legislators
came to depend of lobbyists experience in making decisions.
5) Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers and Maple Floor
Association v. United States
a. In Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers, Taft ruled that a
striking union, like a trust, could be prosecuted for illegal restraint of trade.
And in Maple Floor Association v. United States, the court decided that trade
associations that distributed anti-union information were not acting in
restraint of trade.
b. These would shelter business from government regulation and hinder
organized labors ability to achieve their goals through strike and legistlation.
6) Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company and Adkins v. Childrens
Hospital
a. In Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company, the court rejected restrictions on
child labor. And in, Adkins v. Childrens Hospital they overturned a minimum
wage law affecting women because it infringed on liberty of contract.
b. These showed that the court was taking back it decisions and that there
would be setbacks for organized labor.
7) Welfare capitalism
a. This is when some corporations countered the appeal of unions by offering
pensions, profit sharing, company-sponsored picnics and sporting events.
b. Union membership fell rapidly because of welfare capitalism and
indifferent leadership.
8) Warren G. Harding
a. Harding was elected in 1920 when the populace no longer national or
international crusades.

b. He appointed some capable assistants who helped promote business

growth and also backed reforms. He helped streamline federal spending.
9) Charles Forbes and Harry Daugherty
a. Two guys that saw office holding as an invitation to personal gains.
b. Forbes of the Veterans Bureau went to federal prision because of fraud
and bribery in connection with government contracts and Daugherty was
implicated in bribery and fraud but escaped prosecution by refusing to testify
against himself.
10) the Teapot Dome scandal
a. This happened when Secretary of Interior Albert Fall was caught accepting
bribes to lease oil-rich government property to private oil companies.
b. He was fined $100,000 and spent a year in jail and was the first cabinet
member to be so disgraced.
11) Calvin Coolidge
a. Coolidge was Hardings successor and was far more closemouthed.
b. His administration reduced federal debt, lowered income-tax rates, and
began construction of a national high-way system.
12) the McNary-Haughen bills
a. These were bills of 1927 and 1928 that established government backed
price supports for staple crops.
b. These bills were to establish a complex system whereby the government
would buy surplus farm products and either hold them until prices rose or sell
them abroad. However, Coolidge vetoed the measures both times and said it
was improper government interference.
13) the 1924 presidential election
a. Coolidge won due to Coolidge Prosperity.
b. This election showed that Progressivism had basically died.
14) the Indian Rights Association, the Indian Defense Association,
and the General Federation of Womens Clubs
a. These organizations worked to obtain justice and social services as well as
better education and the return of tribal lands.
b. But Native Americans were basically treated like other minorities.
15) American Indians citizenship status
a. The federal government had a hard time discerning Indians citizenship
status. The Dawes Act had given citizenship to all Indians who accepted land
allotments but not those who remained on reservations. Also the government
had special control over Indian citizens that they did not exercise over the
citizens.
b. In 1924, Congress finally passed a law granting full citizenship to all
Indians who did not receive it before.
16) the Bureau of Indian Affairs
a. President Herbert Hoover's administration reorganized the Bureau of
Indian Affairs increasing expenditures for the Indian's health, education, and
welfare.
b. The problem was that the money for the Bureau mostly went to the
bureaucracy rather than to the Indians.

17) the League of Women Voters

a. This was reorganized out of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
b. Though it did encourage women to run for office, it worked more actively
as lobbyists for laws to improve conditions of working women, mentally ill
people, and the urban poor.
18) the Sheppard-Towner Act
a. This was passed in 1921 when womens groups persuaded Congress. It
allotted funds to states to create maternity and pediatric clinics.
b. This ended in 1929 when private physicians pressured Congress to cancel
funding.
19) the Cable Act
a. This was passed in 1922 and reversed the law that said an American
woman who married a foreigner assumed her husbands citizenship.
b. This made it so that women give keep their US citizenship.
20) the National Woman Party
a. They pressed for an equal rights amendment to ensure womens equality
with men under the law.
b. They were alienated from many other organizations because others
usually supported special protective legislation to limit hours and improve
conditions for employed women.
21) the automobile
a. The automobile was basically the lead of materialism during this era.
b. Mass production and competition brought the price down, making it
affordable to even some working-class families. People began considering
cars a necessity and not a luxury. Cars changed American lives; city streets
were cleaner, women learned more independence, etc.
22) the Federal Highway Act
a. This was passed in 1921 providing funds for state roads.
b. And in 1923, the Bureau of Public Roads planned a national highway
system. All this road building led to technological developments such as
mass produced tires, concrete mixers, etc.
23) the radio
a. The radio became one of this eras most influential advertising and
entertainment media.
b. In 1929, over 10 million families owned radios and Americans had spent
$850 million a year on equipment for radios.
24) urbanization
a.
b.
25) Marcus Garvey
a. Marcus Garvey was the head of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association who believed blacks should separate from corrupt white society.
b. He proclaimed "I am the equal of any white man" in response to
discrimination, threats, and violence, many urban blacks joined movements
that glorified racial independence.

26) Mexican immigrants

a. During the early 1900's, Anglo farmer associations encouraged Mexican
immigrants to work as agricultural laborers also, more and more Mexican
immigrants came to the US.
b. By 1920s, Mexican immigrants were 3/4 of farm labor in the American
West. Many growers treated them like slaves, providing low wages and poor
healthcare.
27) Puerto Rican immigrants
a.
b.
28) the growth of the suburbs
a.
b.
29) the American family of the 1920s
a.
b.
30) home appliances and household management in the 1920s
a.
b.
31) Issac Max Rubinow and Abraham Epstein
a.
b.
32) the peer group and the socialization of children
a.
b.
33) women in the 1920s labor force
a.
b.
34) the flapper
a.
b.
35) homosexual culture
a.
b.
36) Ku Klux Klan
a.
b.
37) the Emergency Quota Act of 1921
a.
b.
38) the National Orgins Act of 1924 and the National Orgnis Act of
1927
a.
b.
39) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
a.

b.
40) the Scopes trial
a.
b.
41) Pentecostal religion
a.
b.
42) mahjongg, crossword puzzles, miniature golf, and the
Charleston
a.
b.
43) Motion pictures
a.
b.
44) baseball
a.
b.
45) Jack Dempsey, Harold Red Grange, and George Herman
Babe Ruth
a.
b.
46) Rudolph Valentino
a.
b.
47) Prohibition
a.
b.
48) Al Capone
a.
b.
49) the Lost Generation
a.
b.
50) the Harlem Renaissance
a.
b.
51) the Jazz Age
a.
b.
52) the 1928 presidential election
a.
b.
53) Herbert Hoover
a.
b.
54) Al Smith

a.
b.
55) Black Thursday
a.
b.
56) Black Tuesday
a.
b.
57) the stock market crash
a.
b.