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What positive and negative impact did the 20's have on the US?
organized crime, consumer goods, new music and dance, freedom, prohibition, prosperity, republicanism
the red scare 1919-1920 : (afraid of communism)
karl marx :
Lenin :
palmer raids
j edgar hoover
ku klux klan
immigration: frozen against anarchist and communist immigrants
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forum post leader
trickle down theory: giving taxes breaks to the wealthy so they would create new jobs by creating new markets,
laissez faire: hands off of business (gov)
rugged individualism: you get your success, you have to work hard for it.
negative: teapot dome scandal: albert fall: sold government lands to big business men. Pres Harding
henry ford and the model t
airplanes
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Rural vs Urban
moved from farms to cities
rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
(NY, Chicago, philadelphia)
cities tolerated drinking, gambling and casual dating
prohibition: progressive wanted it. 18th amendment (1920-1933) manufacture, sale and transportation were illegal
speakeasies: secret bars
bootlegging: people made or transported alcohol. imported alcohol
al capone made over $60 million a year
Science vs Religion : evolution >< creation by god
illegal to teach evolution at school : 1925
John Scopes
buying on credit
the flapper
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fashion
famous people babe ruth, clara garbo, gene tunney, bobby jones, bill tilden, red grange, f scott fitzgerald
harlem renaissance (+) black people in art, gaining rights, pushing their culture. Marcus Garvey, louis armstrong,
Review:
1- 5 events and explain
2- moving west, cattle ranching, industrial revolution, immigration, segregation
3- amendments (16, 17,18,19) child labor law, drug act, federal trade comition, federal reserve bank
4- new diplomacy and old diplomacy, war with spain, roosevelt corollary (link between america and eu, dollar diplomacy (invest in countries and take over them), missionary dip
5- casualties and cost, isolation made usa into industrial and military power
6- home front, women, allies, money
7- (7)
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