Got our Semester Test taking time!
1. Roaring 20's
- flag pole sitting
- baggier clothes
2. A "return to normalcy"- return to normal by staying out of European wars
- focus on the US first; building up America
- Harding was the "return to normalcy" guy
3. Red Scare
- 1919-1920
- Communist Scare
- United States in response:
-stopped immigration
-stopped Palmer Raids; take out any communists and deport
4. Buying on credit
- Allowed common people to afford things; cars
5. Planes and automobiles
- Route 66
- First time people started really traveling
- Henry Ford
- Automobiles made the 20's rouring!
- Got rid of traveling by horses
- Car changed the world the most; parking lots, roads, driveways, etc, etc, etc!
- Suburbs built in the cities; can get to city
- Live somewhere, work somewhere else
- Brought accidents along; gangs transported liqur quickly; people started moving outside of their "area"
- Planes started; small groups when transporting people; famous for barnstorming & stunts
- Charles Lindbergh; sailed from New York - Paris
- Amelia Earhart; first women to sail across Atlantic; disappeared in Pacific Ocean
6. Prohibition
- 18th amendement
- eliminated all alchohol
- woman pushed for it during the progressive era
- abuse would all go down
- make it for meds
- took away their rights; why didnt like it
- Prohibition Bureau; enforce law
- Only about 100+ people in charge of finding them
- Brought about organized crime
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- Republicans overrule
- Trickele-down theory (taxes especially on rich, trickle down to help poor)
-takes a lot of time - Laissez-faire (government stays out of business; let them do as they please)
Rugged Individualism (people need to help themselves & step up; your responsibility)
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