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1910-1920s Court Cases | |||
“Incorporation” of the Bill of Rights into state law | |||
Expanding federal jurisdiction over states - Supreme Court began to apply the protections of the Bill of Rights to state law | |||
> process called “Incorporation” | |||
> BOR originally applied only to federal government | |||
> 14th amendment opened door to “incorporation” | |||
> cases tended to be | |||
>> freedom of speech, especially regarding protests during WWI | |||
>> protections against illegal search and seizures | |||
Cases: | |||
- Schenk v. US: socialist agitator arrested for violating Espionage Act of 1917 that prohibited “interference” w/ War effort | |||
>> court ruled that some speech can be regulated if it endangers others (presents a “clear and present danger” such as “yelling fire in a crowded theatre”) | |||
1920s Themes: | |||
- return to normalcy after WWI | |||
- economic boom | |||
- consumerism / consumer loans | |||
- technology spread, esp. autos, telephones, radio | |||
- women’s expanding roles in economy, politics | |||
- Great migration: black social & economic change | |||
- Economic boom | |||
- business oriented governance | |||
> Republican presidents reduced income taxes but kept tariffs, including to enact the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff, which was “protectionist” or “protectionism” | |||
> labor unions lost favor, growth of “welfare capitalism” under which businesses offered workers benefits in exchange for not forming unions or striking | |||
- consumer culture: | |||
> expansion of consumer credit fueled consumer purchases, esp: | |||
> automobiles, appliances, radios, suburbs growth | |||
> “labor saving devices” < freed women from many household tasks | |||
- Jazz Age: | |||
> flappers | |||
> jazz | |||
> “Lost Generation” writers: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O’Neill | |||
Also: | |||
- Prohibition era | |||
> bathtub gin (home-made alcohol) | |||
> gangster era (Al Capone, rum runners) | |||
- Stock market frenzy | |||
> stock market crash, 1929 | |||
- restrictions on Immigration: Emergency Quota Act of 1924 | |||
- Scopes Monkey Trial: over teaching evolution | |||
1929-32 Stock Market Crash of 1920 | |||
Leads to Great Depression | |||
- Hoovervilles: shantytowns of unemployed, named for President Hoover | |||
- Bonus Expeditionary Force (protest in DC by impoverished veterans) | |||
- Dust Bowl | |||
- New Deal | |||
> “ABC” Agencies: created to respond to every aspect of life | |||
> see FDR for more | |||
> Workers Progress Administration (WPA): to put people to work, including artisans, artists, writers | |||
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== 1930s: Hoover & (F) Roosevelt administrations | == 1930s: Hoover & (F) Roosevelt administrations == | ||
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