1. Roaring 20's
* First decade people started buying automobiles
* Buying on credit
2. A "return to normalcy"
* Harding started- returning to normalcy
3. Red Scare
* 1919-1920
* United States stopped immigration
* Karl Marx started communisim
4. Buying on credit
* First came out in the 1920's
* Buy cars for on credit
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
6. Prohibition
* 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
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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