What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the U.S.?
red scare-1919-1920- U.S. is scared after the bulsivic revolution, we were scared we were going to become communist, we did everything we could to stop that from happening, we greatly limited immigration, u.s. gov't searched down "communist" people and sent them back to their home country (Palmer raids)
Anti-immigration- people wanted federal gov't to exclude immigrants, more of a negative thing
Airplanes- became popular when they realized they could transport mail and cargo, mail faster, still smaller planes, then started flying a few people-not long distances, ENTERTAINMENT
Automobiles-completely transformed how we lived.
inventions-me
gangs-Al Capone-hit a teacher never returned to school, met up with someone and took over a gang, moved to Chicago, murdered people and got away with it. They finally got him on tax invasion. died in prison.
valentines day massacre- Al Capone had someone in a stolen police uniforms and they staged a fake raid and everyone in the building got murdered.
Trickle-down theory
Laissez-faire
Rugged individualism
Stock Market Crash- gov't did nothing, people bought stocks, stock value went down and people didn't have the money to pay them back. Companies were not worth what their actual stocks were-----Impacts-business close, houses taken away, banks close, high rates of suicide,
Reconstruction Finance corp-RFC- Hoover's idea to help with great depression- gov't gave big loans out to banks, states, and large businesses and such, they were supposed to use the money to better their companies and hire people-positive
Women in the 20's- political groups, big turn out in social views, Women stayed at their jobs, flappers-short skirts, make-up, short hair (single girls looking to party), better attitudes-go out and get em. Supported the temperance movement and prohibition, right to vote.
African Americans in the 1920's-positive decade, segregation, the great migration- thousands of blacks move North post world war one, looking for better job oppertunities and better atmosphere, discovered whites didn't like black's taking over jobs and such. Proud to be black-Marcus Garvey
Harding- whinny (nick name), basic journalism and newspaper stuff, public speaker, very young for his grade
Music- jazz, ragtime, broadway musicals
Womens fashion- no more corsets, shorter and brighter clothing, more accessories.
Mens Fashion- 3 piece suits, neck and bow ties, weird baggy pants for things like golf, hats were big.
Buying on credit- you put down a payment, pay monthly/yearly for large items.
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