The 20s at a Glance
Red Scare
• Palmer Raids/Deportation
• National Origins Act 1924/Quotas
• KKK
• Nativism
• Sacco & Vanzetti
Economy & Business
• Henry Ford/Effect on Society
• Radio
• Advertising
• Effect on Worker/Welfare Capitalism
Economy & The Household
• Credit
• Installment plans
Prohibition
• 18th Amendment 1919
• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Al Capone
Fundamentalism
• Scopes Trial
Sports
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle
Jack Dempsey
GOLF
Tennis
Flight
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Bessie Coleman
Entertainment
Charlie Chaplin
Jazz Singer
Rudolph Valentino
Winnie the Pooh
Inventions
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
Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge
• VP Harding/Republican
• Limited role government
• Role of Business?
• Federal Budget
• Veteran Bonuses
Herbert Hoover
• Elected 1928/Republian• Stock Market Crash• Reaction to Depression• Business & Gov. • Hoover Dam• Cooperatives-Farmers• Hoovervilles• Bonus Army• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Election 1932
• Sum up politics of the 20s
• Change?
• FDR/Democrat