1. Roaring 20's
"The Advertising Age"
-The Golden Age of Sports (Babe Ruth)
-Prohibition: the ban of alcohol
-Warren G. Harding: President
-Radio
-Jazz Music (young ppl dance music)
-Flapper
-Mottle T Ford
-Electricity
-Booming Stock Market
-Ppl making more money then they ever have before
2. A "return to normalcy"
Warren G. Harding - wanted to "Return to Normalcy" before the Old Diplomacy, we were isolated. (stayed out of foreign affairs) stay out of league of nations.
*laissez-faire-"let alone" government was going to stay out of the businesses. business is what drives our country. helped in the 20's.
*Rugged individualism - it's up to you to get a job, not the governments fault. it's you on your own. people needed to step up to the plate and take care of yourselves. not the governments responsibility to give you money (welfare)
3. Red Scare
1919-1920
(red is color of communism)
America was scared we were going to become communist (government takes away freedom)
*Karl Marx. Theory of communism:
-everyone would be =.
-poor people - rise up in a revolution & over throw the rich&government.
What we did: controlled the immigrants coming into the country. The Palmer Raids. (lead by J. Edgar Hoover, leader of the FBI, through 1920-1970's, they hunted Communists, 250 ppl deported)
4. Buying on credit
(able to buy cars/stuff)
buy now, pay later.
set up a time frame to pay off the car.
allows the common person to buy nice things.
5. Planes and automobiles
-Rout 66 - Chicago-California/ (The Mother Road)
-Henry Ford. wasn't the inventor- just made it possible for the common person to be able to get a car.
(Model T)
-Charles Lindbergh "Lucky Lindy" - first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean non-stop.
(planes - used in wars, air plane shows, mail. )
Amelia Earhart - Disappeared when trying to be the first person to fly around the world.
6. Prohibition
alcohol was tearing apart families, and crime in general was going up because of people drinking.
if you eliminate drinking, you take away society problems.
-failed because people did it anyways.
prohibition beau had 1500 people in it, was set up to regulate the country.
-failed because there weren't enough people to enforce it or regulate it.
-was supposed to eliminate crime, but violent crime and gangs were there now.
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Warren G. Harding - wanted to "Return to Normalcy" before the Old Diplomacy, we were isolated. (stayed out of foreign affairs) stay out of league of nations.
Coolidge- Cool Cal, Silent Cal(most popular) took over after Warren G. Harding died.
philosophy: do nothing.
Hoover was from Iowa, liked him at first, then hated him.
REPUBLICAN PHILOSOPHY - 1920'S
*Trickle-down theory -people favor the rich/wealthy. Called for tax cuts to big businesses. The benefits would trickle down to the middle class & lower class. Provide more jobs for people. More jobs and better pay.
problem: during crisis it doesn't work because it takes time. other times, it worked well.
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