1920's info
1. Roaring 20's
*First decade people started buying automobiles
*Buying on credit
*Also known as The Jazz Age, golden age of sports, advertising age. Prohibition was also around. Nascar came around during the 20s because they wanted to out run the cops. Radio and entertainment was huge. It allowed then to listen to their favorite sports team. The automobile became popular. Electricty became used a lot in the cities. Then they started using washing machine, refrigerator, and dryer.
2. A "return to normalcy"
*Harding started- returning to normalcy
*Returning to isolation
3. Red Scare
* 1919-1920
* United States stopped immigration
* Karl Marx started communisim
*communism - everything is everyones-take from the rich give to the poor
*The US reduced immigration to try to keep communism out. J. Edgar Hoover and A. Mitchell Palmer deported people (forced them out).
4. Buying on credit
* First came out in the 1920's
* Buy cars for on credit
* Worked for poor people to buy and pay back
5. Planes and automobiles
* First to mass produce automobiles- Henry Ford
* Model T-Ford was the first automobile invented
* Main transportation system
* Alot of accidents and gangs
* Disrupted family systems
* Airplanes started with the Wright Brothers in the 1920's
* Used to transport small groups of people
* But basically used for stunts and barn swallowing
*Lucky Lindy- Charles Lindbergh
*Amelia Earhart- 1st person to attempt to fly across the world
6. Prohibition
* Noble Experiment
* Rural vs. Urban
* 1920 Census- 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
* 1922-1929- more than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
* Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
* At first saloons closed and drunkeness went down
* The Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
* Prohibition failed for three reasons:
1. People despised it, saw it as government meddling in peoples lives
2. The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, had 1500 people to supervise the country
3. Organized crime became commonplace
* Scopes Monkey Trial
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
* Republications overruled and dominated
* Harding- returning to normalcy
* Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
* Republican Philosophy- Trickledown theory, Iaissez faire: government stay out of businesses, Rugged individualism: its your life
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