What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?
1. Roaring 20's-jazz(music), sports, buying on credit, fashion, fads, movies
Jazz age - started in New Orleans
Louis Armstrong - trumpet player
Sports - Golden age of sports; Babe Ruth - baseball; Red Grange - football; Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney - Boxing
Buying on credit - sorta was bad cause people wouldn't pay back
movies - silent and horror movies
Fads - board games, flagpole sitting, the Charleston and the Shimmy were dance moves
2. Red Scare/Anti-immigration
Red Scare - fear in United States that we would fall to communism
we stopped immigration;
J. Edgar Hoover and Palmer did the Palmer Raids; What they did was they investigated who ever they thought were communists
anti-immigration - Anti-immigration act of 1924, only a certain amount of immigrants could come to America
Immigration was cut down drastically
Sacco Vanzetti Case - two Italian immigrants who were anarchists, they were accused of killing their pay keeper,
3. Planes and automobiles
Popular in WW1
they would put on airplane shows and do stunts
were used for mail to begin with
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean
Amelia Earhart - disappeared trying to fly across the world
more people started to be able to buy cars
4. Prohibition/Gangs
Passed through 18th amendments
production and distribution of alcohol was illegal
5. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Harding - staying out of league of nation, deal with budget, died of pneumonia when he was still a president
Coolidge - lower taxes
Hoover -
6. Women in the 20's
7. African-Americans in the 20's
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