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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
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Circumstantial Evidence
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Few Protested
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Decade of Prosperity: Automobile’s Significance
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What goods and businesses would the automobile stimulate?
Steel Rubber Oil Production Road Construction
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Consumer Goods Rise
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Farmer’s Plight
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Alice Paul
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Women’s Freedom
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Republican Era Return to Normalcy with Warren Harding
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What issues would Harding (Republican) reverse from Wilson’s (Democratic) term?
Taxes would lower. Remember Wilson raised corporate and personal income taxes to help pay for WWI. Raise the tariffs. This would help promote buying American products, thus aiding big corporate owners in capital gains. Anti-Unionism
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Harding Scandals
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Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal
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Economic Diplomacy Isolationism
Close working relationship between business and government Washington Naval Conference Fordney-McCumber Tariff American bankers loan Germany money Soldier deployment in Caribbean conflicts
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Civil Liberties in Question
Hay’s Code
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Lost Generation Coined by Gertrude Stein, who said, "You are all a Lost Generation." Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway
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The Supreme Court Under: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
American Civil Liberties Union is founded 1920 Clear and Present Danger Case
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Cultural Wars Fundamentalists Second Klan Nativists
Scopes Trial: Monkey Trial
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Cultural Pluralism
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Harlem Renaissance
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Stock Market Crash 1929
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Signs lead to Great Depression
Southern California & Florida experience frenzied real estate speculation Land remained undeveloped Mortgage foreclosures Unequal distribution of wealth Prolonged Poverty of farmers Decline in sales of consumer goods Bloated stock market
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Hoover’s Response Call for charities and Voluntary Organizational help
Hawley Smoot Tariff Tax increase to balance federal budget Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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American Perception of Hoover’s Response
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