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1920s - Boom, Roaring 20s, and the Jazz Age (Political (Warren Harding…
1920s - Boom, Roaring 20s,
and the Jazz Age
Political
Isolationism
Woodrow Wilson
Treaty of Versailles
14 points
Unpopular
Post WWI
Warren Harding (R) election of 1920
"Return to normalcy"
Gave friends positions of power
Very corrupt
Teapot Dome Scandal
Albert Fall
Fall gave government land with Oil Reserves to companies in exchange for cash
Dies of a heart attack in 1923
Coolidge (R) (1923-1929)
"The business of America is business"
Hands-off approach to the economy
Laissez-faire = let alone
Promotes economic growth
High tariffs
Kellogg-Brigand pact
Outlawed war
Social
"Consumer culture"
Buying and selling goods
Cars
Appliances
Radios
Installment buying
Buy something and pay it off
Changes
Women's Suffrage
19th Amendment =1920
Prohibition
1919-1933
Crazy axe lady = Carrie Nation
WCTU = Women's Christian Temperance Union
18th Amendment
Organized Crime goes WAY up
Immigration
Xenophobia
Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare
Red Summer 1919
Racial Tension
KKK
Great Migration
Race Riots/lynching
Jim Crow
Scopes Trial
Science/Christianity
Mass Culture
Cars
Radio
Jazz
Sports
Sports Mega-stars
Literature
Economic