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CHAPTER 27 | REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE

1903

Ford Motor Company founded

1905

First movie house opened in Philadelphia

1908

First Model T Ford

1915

Birth of a Nation

1920

Warren Harding elected

1920

First regular radio programs over KDKA

1920

American Farm Bureau Federation formed

1921

Budget and Accounting Act

1921

American Plan first proposed

1922

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

1922

Herbert Hoover’s American Individualism

1922

First radio commercial

1923

Harding died and Coolidge became president

1924

Coolidge elected president

1924

First McNary-Haugen bill

1925–1926

Florida real estate boom

1926

Air Commerce Act

1926

Railway Labor Act

1927

Federal Radio Commission created

1927

The Jazz Singer

1927

Lindbergh flew New York to Paris nonstop

1928

Herbert Hoover elected president

1929

Gastonia Strike

October 1929

Stock market crash

1930

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

1932

Reconstruction Finance Corporation established

1932

Glass-Steagall Act

1932

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

1932

Emergency Relief and Construction Act

1932

Bonus Expeditionary Force marched



CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Assess the effects of the Harding presidency on the nation.
  2. Explain the new prosperity of the 1920s.
  3. Delineate the features of the economy in the New Era decade..
  4. Explain Hoover’s policies for the nation and indicate their effects.
  5. Account for the stock market crash of 1929.
  6. Understand the status of farmers during the 1920s.
  7. Describe the status of labor unions during the 1920s.