1. T HE R OARING T WENTIES

2. C ONSERVATIVE P RESIDENTS L IMITED G OVERNMENT – P RO B USINESS Warren G. Harding “Return to Normalcy” Presidency filled with scandal “Teapot Dome” – Harding’s Secretary of the Interior agreed to secretly lease out government oil reserves to his friends Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge “The business of the American people is business” Limited regulation, encouraged buying and spending Result is a decade known for prosperity and consumerism – the Roaring Twenties

3. C ONSUMERISM Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Wages rose for most workers New ways to buy on credit including installment plans New products (like electrical appliances) became available Advertising evolved to include catchy slogans and lure Americans into more buying Most Americans thought the prosperity would never end

4. C HANGE (L IBERALS ) Women More Freedom, new jobs New Style – Flappers

5. E NTERTAINMENT Radio Silent Movies Sports (Babe Ruth) Heroes (Charles Lindbergh) Fads – flagpole sitting

6. R EACTION TO C HANGE (C ONSERVATIVES ) Christian Fundamentalism – belief in all parts of the Bible, skeptical of scientific knowledge Evangelists like Billy Sunday Scopes Monkey Trial (Clarence Darrow versus William Jennings Bryan)

7. P ROHIBITION 18 th Amendment banned alcohol – the Volstead Act enforced this law Speakeasies (hidden bars) and bootleggers (liquor smugglers) got around the laws Organized crime – Al Capone Prohibition was ended in 1933 when it was repealed by the 21 st Amendment

8. R EACTION TO C HANGE (C ONSERVATIVES ) Red Scare After the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution in Russia, radical Communist parties formed in the US Palmer Raids against Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, and foreign born Radicals Sacco and Vanzetti trial The Red Scare fueled anti-immigrant feelings (nativism), a growth of the KKK, and marked a return to isolationism and limits on immigration (quotas)