My semester test is at 10:25 on wedsnday.
1. Roaring 20's
Economy boomed, electricity, people were buying machines- vaccuums, radio- soap opras, games, washer and dyer, pro- sports-boxing, golf, baseball.
Jazz age, Advertising age, Golden age of sports.
2. A "return to normalcy"
Harding- his campagn, return to isolationism, focus on building up America, and stay out of foriegn affairs.
3. Red Scare
After WWI, Russia became communist after they dropped out of the war, communists were everywhere, U.S. was afraid of becoming communist.
Immigration- reduced because they thought they could be communnists.
Palmer Raids- J Edgar Hoover- leader of the FBI and Mitchel Palmer- arrested people who they thought were communists and deported them.
Communist- create a utopia, poor people are equal to rich people- Karl Marx, this has never happened.
Vladimir Lenin- Soviet Union leader, Russia was torn apart.
4. Buying on credit
Buy something now and pay it back later.
5. Planes and automobiles
Cars- country to city, move, suburbs, work, hotels, motels, gas stations, mechanics, paved roads, route 66.
Henry Ford made the Model T Ford, common car in the 20's, $400-$500.
Airplanes- Wright Brothers, small groups of people traveling, daredevil entertainment.
Charles Lindbergh-Lucky Lindy, 1st person to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart- 1st women to fly across Atlantic Ocean, she tried to fly around the whole world, but she disappeared.
6. Prohibition
18th Amendment- the noble experiment, lasted 13 years- 1920-1933, failed miserably.
Failed- people dispised it, The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, Organized crime became commonplace.
Speakeasies- illegal, secret bars, could be anywhere, admitted a card or password has to be given.
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Hoover- very popular, president during Great Depression, then people didn't like him.
Coolidge- Silent Cal, do nothing philosophy.
Republican Philosophy- trickle down theory- help rich and it will eventualy help the poor, laissez-faire- hands off of businesses, rugged individualism- people help themselves.
finished the 1920's
working on semester test blog.
Comments