Posted by 3jordanA on December 16, 2011 at 10:33am
Today we talked about the 1920's, our semester test, and semester blog.1. Roaring 20'sEconomy boomed, people were buying machines- vaccuums, radio- soap opras, games, washer and dyer, pro- sports-boxing, golf, baseball, cars- country to city, move, suburbs, work.Jass age, Advertising age, Golden age of sports.2. A "return to normalcy"-3. Red ScareAfter WWI, Russia became communist after they dropped out of the war, communists were everywhere, U.S. was afraid of becoming communist.Immigration- reduced because they thought they could be communnists.Palmer Raids- J Edgar Hoover- leader of the FBI and Mitchel Palmer- arrested people who they thought were communists and deported them.Communist- create a utopia, poor people are equal to rich people- Karl Marx, this has never happened.Vladimir Lenin- Soviet Union leader, Russia was torn apart.4. Buying on creditBuy something now and pay it back later.5. Planes and automobiles6. Prohibition -- 18th addmendment.7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover --Tickle-down therory- laissez-rugged indivituals-
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