1920's:
1. Roaring 20's
- mohjonng-chinese game
- cities grew
2. A "return to normalcy"
- Harding is elected president
- returns to "normalcy"
- Warren Harding wanted to return to normalcy
3. Red Scare(1919-1920)
- communism-redustribute wealth,everything is equal,
- Karl Marx first came up with the comunism idea
- Vladimir Lenin-thought the Russian government needed to totally take controll
- A. Michell Palmer-Attorney General
- him and j. Edgar Hoover
- they raided people to get rid of communists.
4. Buying on credit
5. Planes and automobiles
- route 66- chicago to california
- interstate started in 1950's
- Henery Ford
- didnt invent the automobile
- interchangable part
- assembly line
- priced cars for the normal person
- Charles Lindbergh
- Airplanes in the 20's were used for mail
- the most famous hero
- he flew across the atlantic for the first time
- Lucky Linny
6. Prohibition
- 18th ammendment
- manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
- supporters believed alcohol brouhg about corruption,crim,wife and child abuse
- Failed for 3 reasons
- people thought it was rediculous
- prohibion Bureau was underfunded
- organized crime became commonplace
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- coolidge
- he didnt do much
- people liked that
- do as little as possible
- Harding
- Hoover
- elected in 1929
- super popular
- conserved food during WWI
- very popular
- Laissez-fair
- let business do as they please
- governmnet will stay out of the way
- Trickle down theory
- idea that we would give tax cuts to the wealthy
- it would trickle down to help the middle classes
- Rugged individualism
- about your responsibility
- welfare(didnt believe in it)
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