1920's discussion
Semester test blog due on Tuesday, December 20th before 12:25
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Questions: 1-ch.6, 2-ch.7, 3-ch.9,4-ch.10, 5-ch.11, 6-ch.12&13
1. Roaring 20's-Route 66 "the mother road", most people had cars, went from chicago to los angeles, a lot of people were taking road trips. No more horses or manure in the streets. Mahhjong was made and played in the 1920's. Jazz music. company's were making money. People were getting hired.
2. A "return to normalcy"-means-return to normal by staying out of european wars, we went back to the policy of isolationism"stay to ourselves"
3. Red Scare-from 1919-1920, the US was fearful of becoming communist, communism-taking some money from the rich and giving it to the poor, the US : stopped immigration from Europe and Asia, Karl Marx came up with the theory of communism-it would become a utopian society where everyone would be equal, to help the red scare we did the Palmer Raids-used attacks to take out any communist person in our country and deport them. After WW1.
4. Buying on credit-pay so much down, pay so much with interest. made it available to everybody to buy nice things like cars, refridgerator's.
5. Planes and automobiles-Henry Ford was the first to mass produce the automobile, negatives-dangers of drunk driving, disruppted the family system( they were moving away more to go to big cities). The first airplane was made by the wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly non-stop over the atlantic ocean, Amelia Earhart famous for making it over the atlantic ocean but more famous for getting lost somewhere over the pacific ocean.Everything revolves around the automobile.
6. Prohibition-"The Noble Experiment" 18th Amendment (1920-1933) eliminated the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal, supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption crime, wife and child abuse and accidents, supporters came mostly from rural south and west(areas with a lot of protestants), anti-saloon league and women's christian temerence union led the attack on alcohol, alcohol was allowed fro medical and religious purposes, prescriptions and sacramental (church) wine orders skyrocketed(they would buy it to sell or drink for their own benefit), atfirst saloons closed and drunkeness went down, the Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law, Prohibition failed:1.people despised it, saw it asgovernment meddling in people's lives,2.the prohibition bureau was underfunded, it had 1,500 people to supervise the country, 3. organized crime became commonplace. Speakeasies were illegal bars that were set up. Bootlegger's-people who would illegally make or distribute alcohol.
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Republicans dominated as presidents in the 1920's
Policies:
-trickle down theory- by helping the rich, the money they have to handle will help the poor
-Laissez-faire-government is going to stay out of business' business
-rugged individualism- it's your problem, you deal with it yourself, and you
-Harding- policy, a "return to normalcy"(found in #2), trickle down theory
-Coolidge-laissez-faire
-Hoover-for 50 years he lead the FBI, and iowa native, "the bum that started the great depression", rugged individualism
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