20TH CENTURY HISTORY

CHAPTER 12N REVIEW

 

VOCABULARY:  Anarchist, General Strike, Drys, Wets, Suffrage, Dialectic, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, Deportation, Palmer Raids, Great Migration, Back To Africa Movement(Garvey Movement), Prohibition, Teapot Dome Scandal, Red Scare, Supply side Economics, Trickle-Down Theory, Disarmament, Dawes Plan, Kellog-Briand Pact, Washington Naval Conference, Parity, Open Shop,  Oligopoly, Collusion,  Default, American Plan, Welfare Capitalism, Black Listing, Yellow Dog Contract, Scientific Management, Subsidiary Company, Xenophobia, Carrot and Stick Approach, Reparations, Economies of Scale, Public Employee, Craft Union, Trade Union, Quota System,

Ohio Gang, Urban Sprawl, Installment Plan, Scabs, Teamsters

 

ACRONYMS:  START, FTC, 5-5-3, SOL,  ICC, CPI, FBI, IWW, AFL, CIO, AFL/CIO, ILA, NEA, AFT, AFSCME

 

PERSONALITIES:  Sacco and Vanzetti, John L. Lewis, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, Philip Randolph, Charles Evans Hughes, Albert T. Fall, A. Mitchell Palmer, J. Edgar Hoover,

William E. Foster

 

LEGISLATION:  National Origins Act of 1924, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, Volsted Act,

Fordney Mc Cumber Tariff

 

ESSAYS

 

1.         Discuss and exemplify how Big Business used the Carrot and Stick approach in its dealings with organized labor during the 1920’s.

2.         Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of assembly line technology.

3.         Discuss the symbiotic relationship that existed between a major industry such as an automobile company and its subsidiary, support, and parallel industries.

4.         Discuss and exemplify the various policies of Calvin Coolidge which tended to be pro-business.

5.         Discuss Supply Side Economics and the Trickle Down Theory as avenues to prosperity. Include both the assumed benefits as well as the possible unwanted outcomes.

6.         Correlate the Dawes Plan, the Washington Naval Conference, and the Kellogg Briand Pact with regard to the isolationist sentiment that permeated the US during the post W.W. I  era.

7.         Correlate the Red Scare, labor unrest, The Palmer Raids, and the K.K.K. in the post W.W. I era.

8.         Describe an Oligopoly market. List and discuss both the advantages and potential dangers of this type market.

9.         Discuss the symbiotic relationship between mass production and mass consumption (you may use a circular flow chart to exemplify your position).

10.     Discuss the Teapot Dome scandal. Include factors that led to its development and its resulting ramifications as they pertained to Warren Harding.

11.     Define the Dialectic Theory; then incorporate this theory with the post W.W. I labor movement and the subsequent governmental reaction.