We continued discussion on chapter 11.
Tuesday, December 20: Semester test time
9:05-9:15: Chantel Schmidt-5th
1. Roaring 20's
- Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
- Many people moved to the cities
- Electricity in homes
- Largest cities
- New York
- Chicago
- fashion
- oxford pants
- natural waist line
- fur coats and hats
- short pants
- golden age of holywood
- charlie chaplin
- walt disney started 1928
- sports
- Babe Ruth (baseball)
- Gene Tunney (boxing)
- Bill Tilden (tennis)
- African American jazz music and art
2. A "return to normalcy"
- President Harding
- staying out of European conflicts
- focus on American issues first
- return to isolationism
- Us trying to decide to join the leage of nations or return to normalcy
- the US going back to isolation because we didnt get involved in wars and problems didn't happen
3. Red Scare
- Communist scare- period of time after ww1 when the US was scared of becoming communist
- we limited to immigrations because the immigrants came from a communist countries and wanted it in our country
- palmer raids - went after mojor communist wanting people in our country and deported the
- Karl Marx created communist which today is a controlling government
4. Buying on credit
put so much down and pay later with
5. Planes and automobiles
cars
route 66 was the first road
- went from chicago to San Fransico
automobiles were huge in the 20's and the model T was a popular car made by henery ford
- Made affordable to general public
- Became widely popular in the 1920's
- Car changed the world the most, parking lots, driveways
- Suburb of cities, able to travel back and forth
- Cars can travel to many places quicker
- it impacted the world greatly on of the greatest inventions
- problems: caused accidents, gangs could transport illegal things easier, split up families because people went further away to work
planes
- charles Lindbergh: was the most famous person for living across the atlantic ocean
- Amelia Earhart: famous for flying all the way around the world but then trying to do it in a jet and went missing
6. Prohibition
- 18th amendment
- banning of manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol
- supporters were mostly from the south and the west, Catholics
- nonsupporters were from the northeast
- Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- Prescriptions and sacremental wine orders sky rocketed
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- republicans overruled
- republican philosophy
- trickle down theory
- by helping the righ in turn are helping the poor
- help business owners creates jobs for the poor
- laisse- faire
- government stays out of business affairs
- let business handle their own problems
- rugged individualism
- people need to help themselves and step up, stop being lazy
The republicans dominated in the 1920's
Harding (wanted to return to normalcy which was isolation),Coolidge,Hoover
- trickle down theory
- the rich run all of the businesses so if you help the rich it will eventualy trickle down to the poor and help everybody
- a lot of people didn't like it because they needed money now not a year from now
- Laissez-Faire
- governments going to stay out of businesses let them do as they please
- republican philosophy
- Rugged Individualism
- republican philosophy
- saying that people need to step up and get done what they need instead of giving them welfare money each month
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