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Chapter 11 Review

Chapter 11 Review. Getting on With Business. Sacco and Vanzetti. Anti-foreigner feelings. Palmer Raids. The Great Migration. African-Americans move North. Marcus Garvey. “Back to Africa” Pride back to African Americans. Prohibition. 18 th Amendment. Suffrage. 19 th Amendment.

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Chapter 11 Review

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  1. Chapter 11 Review Getting on With Business

  2. Sacco and Vanzetti • Anti-foreigner feelings

  3. Palmer Raids

  4. The Great Migration • African-Americans move North

  5. Marcus Garvey • “Back to Africa” • Pride back to African Americans

  6. Prohibition • 18th Amendment

  7. Suffrage • 19th Amendment

  8. Warren G. Harding • Normalcy • Teapot Dome

  9. Calvin Coolidge • “Never before, here or anywhere else, has a government been so completely fused with business.” - The Wall Street Journal

  10. Herbert Hoover • Inherited the blame when prosperity came crashing down

  11. Dawes Plan • Allowed Germany to pay war reparations

  12. Washington Naval Conference • Disarmament • G.B. & U.S. – 500,000 tons • Japan – 300,000 tons • Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce, Ford

  13. Latin America • Why? – Markets and raw materials • Coolidge – Sent marines to stop revolt

  14. Prosperity and American Business • Skylines – Empire State Building (1930)

  15. Prosperity and American Business • Oligopoly – few major producers influence an entire industry

  16. Corporations • Formed mergers and caused many smaller businesses to have financial problems or go out of business

  17. America’s Productivity • Soared in the 1920s due to new technology and techniques in manufacturing

  18. Henry Ford • Efficient assembly-line methods • Created great profits for Ford Motor Company

  19. Henry Ford • Today?

  20. Henry Ford • Doubling workers’ wages. How? • Workers have more money, they buy more Ford cars • Well-paid workers less likely to seek other jobs and more likely to do their boring jobs • He could because of mass production and profits

  21. White-Collar Workers • Professionals, wholesale and retail salespeople, and clerks

  22. White-Collar Women • Typists • Telephone Operators

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