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America in the Roaring Twenties

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1 America in the Roaring Twenties
Politics, Economics, and Society Following the Great War

2 Return to Normalcy Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
US Presidents Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover

3 Consumer Culture Result of Mass Production Assembly Line
32% Boost in Productivity 8% Wage Increase Automobiles Radio Phonograph

4 Leisure Time Welfare Capitalism Shorter Work Days Vacation Time
Professional Sports Amusement Parks Radio Programs Silent Movies

5 Prohibition Pleasure Without Guilt 18th Amendment Volstead Act
Speakeasy Organized Crime Al Capone

6 The New Woman 19th Amendment Flapper Women Join the Work Force
Women of the South and Midwest

7 African-Americans Harlem Renaissance
Plight of African-Americans Largely Ignored Racial Discrimination and Segregation Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

8 Depression Stock Prices Rose 400% Stocks Bought and Sold on Credit
October 29,1929 Black Tuesday Bank Failures High Unemployment Economy Lost Over Half its Value

9 1920’s Considered Time of change and economic prosperity
Changes were not shared equally American isolationism The Great Depression FDR and the New Deal Rise of totalitarian states in Italy, Japan, Russia, and Germany


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