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Bolshevik revolution
The second stage of the russian revolution in november 1917 when vladimir lenin and his Bolshevik party seized power and established a communist state. -
Criminal syndicalism laws
Passed by many states during the red scare these nefarious laws outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change. Stump speakers and international workers of the World, or IWW, were special targets. -
Dawes Plan
An arrangement negotiated to reschedule German reparation payments. It stabilized the German currency and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany. -
McNary-Haugen Bill
Pushed energetically from 1924 to 1928, a farm-relief bill that was championed and aimed to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy up surpluses and sell them abroad. -
Agricultural Marketing Act
This act established the federal farm board, a lending bureau for hard-pressed farmers. The act also aimed to help farmers help themselves throughout new producers' cooperatives. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The highest producing tariff in the peacetime history of the US, passed as a result of good old-fashioned horse trading. To the outside world, it smacked of ugly economic welfare.