1. Roaring 20’s Review January 2013

2. 1920’s Economy  Recession after WWI (soldiers come home, women unemployed, value of farm land decreased)  Bull Market (price of stock continued to increase)  Installment buying  New consumer products led to economic growth  Entertainment  Made women’s lives easier  Growth of the automobile  Assembly line  Led to other industries such as gas stations, tourist cabins, restaurants

3. Prohibition  18 th Amendment  Illegal to make, sell or transport  Led to the rise of organized crime  People found ways to get around the law  Speakeasies  Bootleggers  Repealed in 1933 (21 st amendment)

4. 1920’s Women  19 th Amendment (suffrage)  Flappers (fad)  Daily life became easier with new consumer products

5. 1920’s Culture  New fads  Movies (Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood)  Flappers  Popular sports – baseball, football and golf  Harlem Renaissance (rebirth of African American culture)  Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith  Jazz Music

6. 1920s Tensions  Political Scandals  Tea Pot Dome – President Harding’s Administration  Sacco and Vanzetti  Unfair trial?  Xenophobia/Nativism  Scopes Monkey Trial  Teaching of evolution rather than biology  Shows changing cultural values, religion vs. science  KKK  Quota System – limiting the number of immigrants  Red Scare  Xenophobia, fear of Communism in America following Russian Revolution

7. 1920s Vocabulary  Disarmament  Atheist  Prosperity  Prohibition  Fad  Installment buying  Scandal  Mass Production  Bull Market  Recession