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1 The Roaring Twenties

2 The Red Scare 1919-1920 Bolshevik Revolution Communist Party in US
Labor Strikes of 1919 Palmer Raids Civil Liberty Violations

3 Nativism And Racism Immigration High Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial Emergence of the new KKK

4 Scopes “Monkey Trial” Religion v Science Progressive Education
John Scopes, William Jennings Bryan And Clarence Darrow Evolution v Creationism

5 Prohibition 18th Amendment & Volstead Act-1920
WCTU & Anti-saloon League Bootlegging, Speakeasies & “Bathtub Gin” Organized Crime-Al Capone Repealed in 1933 with the 21st Amendment

6 New Culture Cultural Transformation-New Forms of Entertainments (Movies, Radio), Recreational Activities & Culture Of Consumerism “Jazz Age” Flappers, Suffrage, 19th Amendment Jazz Music & Harlem Renaissance

7 Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey-Black Expressionism, Racial Pride, Ending Imperialism in Africa, Unifying Blacks Langston Hughes-Author & Poet Jazz Music-louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & The Cotton Club Claude McKay & Zora Neale Hurston

8 Literature “The Lost Generation”
Disillusionment because of WWI, Klan brutality, tactics of fundamentalists. Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald. William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot.

9 Technology Consumerism Mass production of the model T The radio
The movie industrymovie stars

10 The Economy Recession Laissez-faire & isolationism
Major growth in industrial output Low interest rates Bank loans and credit

11 Politics: Harding Admin
“Return to normalcy” Scandals: Teapot Dome, inconsistent prosecutions, Forbes scandal Esch-Cummins Transportation Act & Merchant Marine Act of 1920 Appointed 4 supreme court justices Less govt regulation of business, trickle-down theory

12 Foreign Policy Disarmament: Washington Conference, Five-Power Treaty, Four-Power Treaty, Nine- Power Treaty Kellogg-Briand Pact Business interests in Latin America and Middle East Tariffs: Fordney-McCumber Tariff War debts

13 Coolidge Took office after Harding’s passing & ran again in 1924
Least active president “The business of America is business” “Good neighbor” policy in Latin America and Caribbean nations The Dawes Plan of 1924

14 Hoover Agricultural marketing act & federal farm board
Stock market crash-October 1929 Rejected direct assistance policies initially Implemented some public works Bonus army

15 The Great Depression Stock market crash Lack of diversification
Income distribution Overproduction of goods Mechanization

16 Speculation Buying on margin Credit Banking problems

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