1. Roaring 20's
- Prohibition, Gangs, President Harding, Golden age of Sports, Radio, Jazz, Flappers, Henry Ford's Model T, stock markets people were making more money than ever before
2. A "return to normalcy"
- President Harding
- Go back prior to the Old Diplomacy
- We were isolationists during the old diplomacy stay out of Europeans issues
- Staying out of foreign affairs
3. Red Scare
- Red is associated with communism
- Founded by Karl Marx
- US was worried that we would be communists
- Communism-the government is in control of everything
- Soviet Union was the first Communist country
- US severley restricted immigrants into our country
- The Palmer Raids
- ''We're going to become like the Soviet Union''
4. Buying on credit
5. Planes and automobiles
- Route 66 ''the mother road''
- Henry Ford
- Made the car affordable for the common person
- Model T was the most common, you could have any color as long as it was black
- Charles Lindbergh ''Lucky Lindy''
- Used for transporting mail in the 1920's, didn't have huge planes just one person planes
- He was the Hero in the 1920's, even more than Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees
- First person to fly across the Atlantic ocean non-stop
6. Prohibition
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- ''Cool Cal''-Coolidge was the most popular during the 1920's, followed by Harding and then Hoover
- Trickle down theory-giving tax cuts to big businesses, in return the government expected the businesses to pay people more
- Laissez-faire-the business of America is business, business is what drives our country
- Rugged individulism-its up to the individual to take care of themselves, the government is not there to help people if you lose a job go get a new one, the welfare check
- Republicans dominated the 1920's
- After Hoover it was all about the democrats because they helped you save your farm and gave you food unlike the Republicans did
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