1. Crash Couse: Thanks a lot winter.
Roaring 20s Review
Crash Couse: Thanks a lot winter.

2. 18th Amendment Outlawed Alcohol. Enacted Prohibition
Enforced by Volstead act

3. Goals of Prohibition 1. Eliminate Drunkenness
2. Eliminate Physical abuse
3. Eliminate prostitution, gambling, and other vices.
4. . Eliminate absenteeism and job related accidents

4. Organized Crime A result of prohibition.
People still wanted alcohol, so gangs supplied it to the public through corruption, violence, and bootleggers.
Very profitable business, made organized crime very powerful.

5. Al Capone
Most infamous gangster of the 1920s. Ran his bootlegging industry out of Chicago Made millions during the prohibition era, eventually went to jail in 1931.

6. 21st Amendment Passed in 1933, ended prohibition.
Prohibition turned out to be more of dud than anything else.

7. Consumerism An era when people had the ability to buy “stuff”
People bought appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators.

8. IMPACT OF THE AUTO Among the many changes were:
Paved roads, traffic lights
Gas stations, repair shops
Freedom for rural families
Independence for women
By % of world’s vehicles in U.S.

9. Coolidge Pro-Busines kept taxes down and business profits up
Tariffs were high which Government interference in business was minimal
Wages were increasing

10. Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was a larger than life American hero who played for Yankees
He hit 60 homers in 1927

11. CHARLES LINDBERGH’S
Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo trans-atlantic flight
He took off from NYC in the Spirit of St. Louis and arrived in Paris 33 hours later to a hero’s welcome

12. THE FLAPPER
During the 1920s, a new ideal emerged for some women: the Flapper
A Flapper was an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes

13. Red Scare Era when people were afraid of Communism coming to America
Fueled by Communist Revolution in Russia

14. Nativism Making America safe for AMERICANS
Americans were White and Protestant
Fueled by the re-rise of the KKK

15. SACCO & VANZETTI Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti
Convicted of felonies despite flimsy evidence, their execution was symbolic of discrimination against radical beliefs

16. Palmer Raids Lead by Attorney General Arnold Palmer
Raided unions, businesses, and personal homes looking for communists
Often found nothing. Similar to terrorist raids in the middle east today.

17. SCOPES TRIAL Trial that pitted fundamentalism against evolution
Fundamentalists found all truth in the bible – including science & evolution
Evolution- theory based that species evolved from one kind to another.

18. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Cultural Explosion from African Americans in the borough of Harlem.
Saw advances in music, art, poetry, and theater.
Migration of the Negro by Jacob Lawrence

19. LANGSTON HUGHES
Poet
Many of his poems described the difficult lives of working-class blacks
Some of his poems were put to music, especially jazz and blues

20. LOUIS ARMSTRONG Jazz Musician Famous trumpet player
Armstrong is considered the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz

21. Buying on Installment Plans
AKA buying on Credit.
People would not be able to pay back banks in full.
When banks take to many bad loans, they sink.
Leads to our next Unit, The Great Depression.