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Readings
• You must read the entire chapter and prepare for reading check quizes.– Pp. 697-706– Pp. 706-723– Pp. 723-726
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Booming Business, Ailing Agriculture
• Henry Ford– 1927 Model A
– Fordism• Assembly line
processBy 1930 100 corporations controlled ½ the US wealth.
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New Modes of Producing, Managing, and Selling
• Advertisements– Radio– Billboards– Newspaper– Magazine– $2 Billion
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Struggling Labor Unions in a Business Age
• Unions often smeared with “Communist” label.
• Black excluded by most unions
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Standpat Politics in a Decade of Change
• Harding’s Cabinet– Henry C. Wallace– Charles Evans Hughes– Andrew Mellon– Herbert Hoover– Harry Daugherty– Albert Fall– Charles Forbes
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Calvin Coolidge
• Warren Harding
• “Silent Cal”• Wife, “What did the preacher preach on?”
• Coolidge, “Sin”
• Wife, “What did he say about sin?”
• Coolidge, “He was against it!”
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Progressive Stirrings, Democratic Party Divisions
• Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
• Ku Klux Klan
• Alfred E. Smith