Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

Circumstantial Evidence

Few Protested

Decade of Prosperity: Automobile’s Significance

What goods and businesses would the automobile stimulate? Steel Rubber Oil Production Road Construction

Consumer Goods Rise

Farmer’s Plight

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Alice Paul

Women’s Freedom

Republican Era Return to Normalcy with Warren Harding

What issues would Harding (Republican) reverse from Wilson’s (Democratic) term? Taxes would lower. Remember Wilson raised corporate and personal income taxes to help pay for WWI. Raise the tariffs. This would help promote buying American products, thus aiding big corporate owners in capital gains. Anti-Unionism

Harding Scandals

Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal

Economic Diplomacy Isolationism Close working relationship between business and government Washington Naval Conference Fordney-McCumber Tariff American bankers loan Germany money Soldier deployment in Caribbean conflicts

Civil Liberties in Question Hay’s Code

Lost Generation Coined by Gertrude Stein, who said, "You are all a Lost Generation." Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway

The Supreme Court Under: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. American Civil Liberties Union is founded 1920 Clear and Present Danger Case

Cultural Wars Fundamentalists Second Klan Nativists Scopes Trial: Monkey Trial

Cultural Pluralism

Harlem Renaissance

Stock Market Crash 1929

Signs lead to Great Depression Southern California & Florida experience frenzied real estate speculation Land remained undeveloped Mortgage foreclosures Unequal distribution of wealth Prolonged Poverty of farmers Decline in sales of consumer goods Bloated stock market

Hoover’s Response Call for charities and Voluntary Organizational help Hawley Smoot Tariff Tax increase to balance federal budget Reconstruction Finance Corporation

American Perception of Hoover’s Response