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| CHAPTER 27 | REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1920 |
Election of Warren G. Harding |
| 1922 |
Fordney-McCumber Tariff |
| 1922 |
First radio commercial |
| 1923 |
Harding died and Collidge became president |
| 1926 |
Florida real estate collapse |
| May 1927 |
Lindbergh flight |
| 1927, 1928 |
McNary-Haugen bills passed Congress |
| 1929 |
Gastonia strike |
| October 1929 |
Stock market crash |
| 1930 |
Smoot-Hawley Tariff |
| 1931 |
Amelia Earhart lost over Pacific Ocean |
| 1931 |
Hoover’s moratorium on war-debt payments |
| 1932 |
Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| July 1932 |
Attack on the Bonus Expeditionary Force |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Assess the effects of the Harding presidency on the nation.
- Explain the new prosperity of the 1920s.
- Describe the features of the economy in the New Era decade, especially the
consumer culture.
- Identify Hoover’s policies for the nation and indicate their effects.
- Account for the stock market crash of 1929.
- Describe the status of farmers during the 1920s.
- Discuss the status of labor unions during the 1920s.
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