the 20s at a glance. red scare palmer raids/deportation national origins act 1924/quotas kkk...
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The 20s at a Glance
Red Scare
• Palmer Raids/Deportation
• National Origins Act 1924/Quotas
• KKK
• Nativism
• Sacco & Vanzetti
Economy & Business
• Henry Ford/Effect on Society
• Radio
• Advertising
• Effect on Worker/Welfare Capitalism
Economy & The Household
• Credit
• Installment plans
Prohibition
• 18th Amendment 1919
• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Al Capone
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Fundamentalism
• Scopes Trial
Sports
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle
Jack Dempsey
GOLF
Tennis
Flight
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Bessie Coleman
Entertainment
Charlie Chaplin
Jazz Singer
Rudolph Valentino
Winnie the Pooh
Inventions
ArtsArt Deco
Bauhaus, Germany
Hemingway
Warren G. Harding
• “Normalcy”• Republican• Pro-business• Role Government/Federal
Budget• Cut taxes on wealthy-why?• Fordney-McCumber Tariff• Effect on Europe?• Teapot Dome Scandal• Dies
Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge
• VP Harding/Republican
• Limited role government
• Role of Business?
• Federal Budget
• Veteran Bonuses
Herbert Hoover
• Elected 1928/Republian• Stock Market Crash• Reaction to Depression• Business & Gov.• Hoover Dam• Cooperatives-Farmers• Hoovervilles• Bonus March/Army• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act• Tax increase 1932
Election 1932
• Sum up politics of the 20’s
• Change?
• FDR/Democrat
What did I say?What did I say?
I went on this blind date thinking the I went on this blind date thinking the guy would be a real cake eater. We guy would be a real cake eater. We went to a flick then the speakeasy to went to a flick then the speakeasy to get some hooch. He was gaga for my get some hooch. He was gaga for my gams. He ended up being a blotto gams. He ended up being a blotto and upchucked. The whole date was and upchucked. The whole date was a flat tire. a flat tire.
Closure:
• Why are the 20’s considered “roaring”?
• How will the lifestyle of the 20’s effect the 30’s?