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| The worst President, by agreement, because he gave in to pressure. |
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| Socialist who opposed WW1 and thus sat it out. Wilson refused to pardon him. Harding pardoned him. |
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| Five major naval powers agree to limit their fleets. |
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| Handed money by Harding administration in the biggest of the Harding Scandals. |
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| What it sounds like. Coolidge breaks up the strike and takes away the jobs of the strikers, becoming a national hero. |
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| One Italian dude sets off a bomb, and suddenly all foreigners are commies. |
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| In an effort to get nominated for the Presidency, Mitchell Palmer arrested a bunch of people and had them arrested, deported, or (randomly) sent to Russia. |
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| Arrested and put to death for murder that they probably didn't convict. They were convicted because they were Italian. |
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| Split Caucasians into Teutonic, Alpine and Mediterranean, thus establishing superiority of Germans and British, etc. |
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| Like William Ripley claims that Germans, French, British, etc. are the great race. Goes on to claim that through intermarriage they are destroying themselves. |
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| Immigration Restriction League (IRA) |
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| Turn of the century lobbiests against immigration. |
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| Run by W.E.B. DuBois. Worked on the principle that black people should integrate themselves into white society. |
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| Prosecuted police officials who allowed lynchings to take place. |
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| Led by Marcus Garvey. Black nationalist movement. |
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| Black nationalist leader. |
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| Cut taxes on the rich, cut governmental expenditure, increased tariffs and put regressive taxes into place. |
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| Worthless treaty to prevent nations from using war as an instrument of policy. |
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| An agency to help banks, railrouads, etc. stay in business by loaning them money. It was not a success. Under Hoover. |
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| National Farmers' Holiday Association (NFHA) |
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| To Farmers: "Eat your own products, and let the money men eat their gold." |
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| Hoover gets his ass kicked by Roosevelt because he utterly lacks charm or charisma, and because the economy got its ass similarly kicked over the last four years. |
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| Roosevelt's brilliant cabinet. The first time a cabinet had been this smart. |
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| Roosevelt's Method of Governing |
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| Experimentation, trusting the brains trust, pragmatism. |
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| The woman with whom Roosevelt had an affair. Eleanor's secretary. |
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| The first hundred days of Roosevelt's first term, in which he passed almost every one of his major New Deal proposals, many without even discussing them. |
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| Emergency Banking Act (EBA) |
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| Eliminated weak banks and gave cash to strong ones. Also pegged gold at $35 an ounce, which prevented hoarding, etc. |
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| Farm Credit Administration (FCA) |
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| Refinanced the mortgages of farmers who had missed payments. |
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| Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) |
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| Helps non-farmers in danger of foreclosure. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
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| Orginization giving handouts to the absolutely desperate poor. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
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| Orginization giving handouts to the absolutely desperate poor. |
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| Head of FERA. Disliked handouts on principle, so he orginized work projects as much of his relief plan when he left FERA and joined the new CWA in 1933, and then the WPA after the CWA was closed. |
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| Civilian Convervation Corps (CCC) |
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| Built infrastructure and demand without using up supply by building bridges, dams, fences, terracing (for erosion resistance), etc. Gave people paying jobs. |
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| Civil Works Administration (CWA) |
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| Constructed public projects like post offices, city halls, and recreational facilities. Also taught in bankrupt school districts. |
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| Works Projects Administration (WPA) |
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| Like the CWA, built post offices, city halls, etc. but also funded artists to paint public murals, photographers to take pictures of America, writers to write guidebooks of America, and historians to document slavery. |
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| National Youth Administration (NYA) |
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| Part of the WPA. Provided jobs for high school and college students. |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| In charge of making sure the economy was efficient, etc. So code-crazy that they ended up losing a law suit brought upon them jews. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
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| Restricts farm production in order to raise the value of crops. Part of hundred days. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| The governement created a system of dams to keep the Tennessee River from overflowing and also to provide power (ELECTRIC dams, dude!) |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Radio broadcaster and catholic priest who believed that the Fed needed to be abolished. |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Wanted to give money to old people 'cause he knew they'd spend it. |
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| Presidential Candidate in '36. Champion of the poor/working man. 'Cause clearly Roosevelt wasn't already that. |
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| Social Security Act of 1935 |
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| Roosevelt stole Townsend's idea of social security, thereby stealing his thunder. |
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| Roosevelt's Pre-WW2 Foreign Policy |
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| Really wimpy. Not doing anything new or interesting. Just keeping Hoover's policies going. |
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| Pre-WW2 doctrine by which the U.S. refused to recognnize any territory gains made by force. Kind of weak, really, since everyone ignored it. |
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| Senator who investigated the dangerous and hostile practices of the munitions industry. |
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| The U.S.'s effort not to put ships in the region, etc. so they wouldn't get dragged into war. |
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| Ship that was sunk, 100 soldiers dying in the process. Roosevelt did not use it as an excuse to declare war. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| 1942 agency to control wages and inflation. |
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| 1942 agency to mediate industrial disputes. |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| U.S. kicks Japanese ass, but takes more casualties. Nonetheless, they cut off the whole Japanese strategy. |
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