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The 20s at a Glance
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Red Scare Palmer Raids/Deportation National Origins Act 1924/Quotas KKK Nativism Sacco & Vanzetti
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Economy & Business Henry Ford/Effect on Society Radio Advertising Effect on Worker/Welfare Capitalism
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Economy & The Household Credit Installment plans
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Prohibition 18 th Amendment 1919 Bootlegging Speakeasies Al Capone
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Fundamentalism Scopes Trial
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Sports Babe Ruth Gertrude Ederle Jack Dempsey GOLF Tennis
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Flight Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Bessie Coleman
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Entertainment Charlie Chaplin Jazz Singer Rudolph Valentino Winnie the Pooh
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Inventions
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Arts Art Deco Bauhaus, Germany Hemingway
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Warren G. Harding “Normalcy” Republican Pro-business Role Government/Federal Budget Cut taxes on wealthy-why? Fordney-McCumber Tariff Effect on Europe? Teapot Dome Scandal Dies
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Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge VP Harding/Republican Limited role government Role of Business? Federal Budget Veteran Bonuses
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Herbert Hoover Elected 1928/Republian Stock Market Crash Reaction to Depression Business & Gov. Hoover Dam Cooperatives-Farmers Hoovervilles Bonus March/Army Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Tax increase 1932
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Election 1932 Sum up politics of the 20’s Change? FDR/Democrat
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What did I say? I went on this blind date thinking the guy would be a real cake eater. We went to a flick then the speakeasy to get some hooch. He was gaga for my gams. He ended up being a blotto and upchucked. The whole date was a flat tire. I went on this blind date thinking the guy would be a real cake eater. We went to a flick then the speakeasy to get some hooch. He was gaga for my gams. He ended up being a blotto and upchucked. The whole date was a flat tire.
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Closure: Why are the 20’s considered “roaring”? How will the lifestyle of the 20’s effect the 30’s?
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