!920's discussion again.
1. Roaring 20's
-jazz age
-automobile
-flappers..fun dressing
-people made more money
-stock market got high
2. A "return to normalcy"
-return to normal by staying out of European conflicts
-idea came from Harding
3. Red Scare
-1919-1920
-fear that we'd become communist
-stopped immigration
-Palmer raids...Hoover and Palmer took communists out of country
4. Buying on credit
-allowed common people to be able to afford nice things (homes, cars..)
5. Planes and automobiles
-Henry Ford
-Model T Ford helped travel, go places, work farther places
-Model T Ford negatives: drunk driving, car accidents
-planes were small, not very developed
6. Prohibition
-named "the noble experiment"
-18th ammendment..eliminated alchohal
-alcohal caused crime, cheating on women, abuse in homes..
-alcohol was stillo allowed for medical/religious reasons
-saloons closed and drunkness went down
-failed because:
1)took away peoples rights
2) prohibition bureau was underfunded
3) organized crime became commonplace
-increased crime badly
-repealed by 21st ammendment
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
-Republicans overrule
-trickle down theory (help rich..will help everyone else)
-laissez-faire
-rugged individualism (let people do as they please)
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