What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?
1. Roaring 20's-jazz(music), sports, buying on credit, fashion, fads, movies
Jazz age - started in New Orleans
Louis Armstrong - trumpet player
Sports - Golden age of sports; Babe Ruth - baseball; Red Grange - football; Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney - Boxing
Buying on credit - sorta was bad cause people wouldn't pay back
movies - silent and horror movies
Fads - board games, flagpole sitting, the Charleston and the Shimmy were dance moves
2. Red Scare/Anti-immigration
Red Scare - fear in United States that we would fall to communism
we stopped immigration;
J. Edgar Hoover and Palmer did the Palmer Raids; What they did was they investigated who ever they thought were communists
anti-immigration - Anti-immigration act of 1924, only a certain amount of immigrants could come to America
Immigration was cut down drastically
Sacco Vanzetti Case - two Italian immigrants who were anarchists, they were accused of killing their pay keeper,
3. Planes and automobiles
4. Prohibition/Gangs
5. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
6. Women in the 20's
7. African-Americans in the 20's
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