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US in the 1920s I - Coggle Diagram

- - - - eg.: railroads back into private property
  - - - no more experimenting
      - nationality > internationality
    - - arm limitations
      - supporting 8-hour labor day
      - regulation of markets
      - supporting farms: credit for farmers
    - - Herbert Hoover
      - Andrew W. Mellon
    - - sympathy for business and financial enterprise
        
        government spending reduced, tax cuts
        
        surtax on higher incomes reduced
        
        protective tariffs in favor or home producers
      - In support of business consolidation
        
        mergers common in the automobile industry, public utilities, banking
      - In industrial disputes, supporting employers
    - - weak administration
      - corruption, frauds, bribes accepted
  - - - ”the business of America is business”
        
        when applied: federal government should serve business
    - - traditional American social values threatened
      - Immigration restriction
        
        fear of racial degeneration and national decline
        
        Number of immigrants admitted: 357,000 a year
        
        1921 - Emergency Quota Act
        
        1924 - National Origins Act
        
        Immigration limited to 150,000 a year (from 1929 on)
        
        Immigration prohibited from most Asian countries
        
        aim
        
        to preserve the ethnic composition of the US population
      - The new Ku Klux Klan
        
        white supremacist group
        
        originating in the South
        
        Native-born, white US citizens
        
        Blue-collar workers, clerks, small professionals, small business men
        
        declining status
        
        saw black people as a threat for jobs and housing
        
        targets
        
        Jews
        
        Catholics
      - 1925 - The Monkey Trial
        
        a high-school biology teacher, John T. Scopes, arrested for violating Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of Darwinian evolution
      - Prohibition
        
        18th Amendment to the Constitution (1920) – production and consumption of alcohol prohibited
        
        hard to implement the law
        
        organized crime appeared
        
        Liquor business came to be controlled by gangs having their own breweries, distilleries, private armies