The Roaring 20’s

By Bonnie Fisher, Brandon Cotner and Halley Campbell

Thesis

To show and explain the impact the 1920’s had on American history.

Return to Normalcy

The Harding Administration› Warren Harding won the 1920 election by a

landside by promising a return to normalacy.› Got congress to lower taxes on businesses

and he wealthy› Scandals

Teapot Dome The Coolidge Administration

› Honesty and integrity› Public Trust

Foreign Policy

International Power› Isolationism› Disarmament

Bolshevik Revolution of 1917› Communism› Diplomatic recognition

The Red Scare

Anarchists› foreign born , “Reds”

May 1920› Nicola Sacco› Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Limiting Immigration › New limitations› Competition for jobs

Prohibition

The Eighteenth Amendment› Prohibition

The Experiment Fails› Bootleggers› Speakeasies

The Growth of Organized Crime› $$$› February 1933

Changing Lives of Women

Nineteenth Amendment› Political Positions

A New Attitude› Flappers

A New Mass Culture

Impact of the Automobile› New Businesses

The Radio› First Radio Station

The Movies

Social Conflict

The Scopes Trial› Evolution

Racial Conflict› Race Riots› KKK

Fads and Heroes

Heroes of the New Age› “Ev’ry morning, ev’ry enening, ain’t we

got fun?” › Dance

Lindy Hop Charleston Black Bottom The Breakaway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHt

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An American Sound

Jazz Age› New Orleans

Louis Armstrong› Radio› http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqY

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Literature of the 1920’s

Social Critics› F. Scott Fitzgerald› Sinclair Lewis

The Harlem Renaissance› Langston Hughes

Industrial Growth

Industrial Growth› Installment buying

Attracting Consumers› Women

A Booming Stock Market

Bull Market› A period of rising stock prices

Buying on Margin› Borrowing money in order to buy stocks

Signs of Trouble

Farmers› No participation

Workers› Unemployment› Assembly line

Election of 1928

Republicans› Herbert Hoover

Democrats› Alfred E. Smith

Works Cited Davidson, James W. America Historyof

Our Nation. Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007

"Herbert Hoover." Wikipedia. 15 May 2009.

Lorance, Loretta L. "Part 3." Part 3. 17 May 2003.

Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. 14 May 2009 <en.wikipedia.org/langston hughes>.

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