https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb By: Cal Lister en-us 2018-01-02 14:22:02 UTC 2023-04-24 07:29:37 UTC hello@padlet.com caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320545 It affected Britain and France when it was their turn to pay the United States $10 billion for the money they had borrowed. They had two ways of doing so by selling goods to the United States or by collecting reparations from Germany. But then in 1922 America adopted the Fordney-McCumber Tariff which raised taxes on some U.S. imports to 60%. The Teapot Dome Scandal was the most spectacular example of corruption. The government had set aside oil-rich public lands at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, for the use by U.S. Navy. Albert B. Fall a close friend of various oil executives, was able to get the oild reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department. Fall secretly leased land to two private oil companies including Henry Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company at Teapot Dome. Fall said that the contracts were in the government's interest he suddenly got more that $400,000 in loans, bonds, and cash. He was later found guilty of bribery and became the first American to be convicted of a felony while holding a cabinet post. ]]> 2018-01-02 14:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320545 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320912 Consumer goods fueled the business boom of the 1920s as America's standard of living soared. This matters now because business, technological, and social developments of the 1920s launched the era of modern consumerism. President Calvin Coolidge went into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well. Both Coolidge and his Republican successor, Herbert Hoover, favored government policies tat kept taxes down and business profits up. Gave businesses more available credit in order to expand. Their goal was to keep government interference in businesses to a minimum which allows private enterprises to flourish.  There are a few reasons why farmers did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s. One factor that hurt farmers was overproduction. Farmers produced too many crops. As a result of new technology, farm production was increasing. This created an oversupply of crops that led to falling farm prices. As farm prices fell, income levels of farmers dropped. As a result, some farmers were not able to pay their mortgages, and they lost their homes.]]> 2018-01-02 14:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320912 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320981 The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States. Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques along with traditional African traditions, jazz soon expanded to America's white middle class. This lead to famous musicians like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and many more. The Harlem Renaissance helped the African Americans express their culture through music and dances. This all led to whites and black being at the same dances and even playing in the same bands. So in a way this was ending racism because they would come together to do what they liked to do without any complications. ]]> 2018-01-02 14:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218320981 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218321016 The Great Migration was the desire of black Southerners to escape segregation, known as Jim Crow laws. Rural African American Southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the North. During this time James Weldon Johnson a poet, lawyer and NAACP executive secretary fought for legislation to protect African American rights. It made anti-lynching laws one of its main priorities. In 1919, three anti-lynching bills were introduced to congress but none of them were passed. But the NAACP still kept fighting for anti-lynching organizations that had been established in 1892 by Ida B. Wells. Yet the North isn't as harsh on racism than the South they still faced some racism. The job opportunities they had were a lot better from pay to what they're doing. ]]> 2018-01-02 14:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218321016 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218738614 Famous Jazz Musician ]]> 2018-01-04 14:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218738614 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218885956 2018-01-05 05:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218885956 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218885979 2018-01-05 05:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218885979 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886117 Route 66: In 1916 Federal-Aid Road Act sets up highway program with the federal government paying half the cost of states' highway construction. In 1921: Highway construction in 11 western states begins under administration of Bureau of Public Roads. This led to 1926, When the U.S. Highway 66, which would run 2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles, California, is established. This put almost an end to the railroad system being used for transportation because everyone was now starting to own cars and didn't need the train to get around anymore. People still used the railroads then and now but it's still not as popular in the Western states than with the Eastern states.]]> 2018-01-05 05:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886117 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886148  Cars weren't the only for of transportation taking off. The Airplane industry began as a mail carrying service for the U.S. Post Office. In 1926 Henry Ford made a trimotor airplane. This led to transatlantic flights done by Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart helped promote cargo and commercial airlines. In 1927 the single-engine plane was made called the Vega by the Lockheed Company. This impacted the railroad system a lot because you are now able to travel faster than both the automobile and the railroads.  ]]> 2018-01-05 05:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886148 caleb_lister926 https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886221 2018-01-05 05:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/caleb_lister926/5fi22hq8v9hb/wish/218886221