1. Roaring 20's-
- Jazz music, computers, magic, holes in the walls (out lets), cars down payments, flappers, prohibition, boom decades, gangsters, everyone was buying in credit, then later peoplestopped buying and caused a depression in the nextyears to come,...Electricity, sports, economy bommed into record highs
2. A "return to normalcy"
- Go back to new diplomacy
- getting back to focusing on America and isolationism
3. Red Scare-
- A period of time after WWl were the US though were sould become comunist
- The US serverly reduced the incoming of immigrants to our country.
- The Plamer Raids- led by J. Edgar Hoover, went out captured comunists and sent them back to their countries, was made to prevent comunist taking over
4. Buying on credit-charging
5. Planes and automobiles
- Route 66 "The Mother Road"
- Henry Ford- made the company, Model T
- Airplane shows very famous
6. Prohibition-baning of making, selling, and distributing of alcohol
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- Coolidge phlosphy was do nothing
- Republican Phlosophy
- Trickle Down therory
- giving tax cuts to big business in return the governmtne expected the businesses to pass down money to their workers
- Problem- during crisises it doesnt work cause it takes a while for the money to "trickle down" to the middle and lower class, took months mabye a year
- laissez-faire
- governments going to stay out of other buisnesses
- businesses boomed during this time
- Rugged individualism
- up to the individuals to get their own jobs and money
- Government didn't believe in welfare and giving other people money
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