Roaring 1920s

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Roaring 1920s
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The Roaring TwentiesThe image

• 1920s America One long, crazy party, with jazz
  music playing on the radio, young fashionable
  women known as flappers wildly dancing the
  Charleston, large quantities of illegal alcohol
  being consumed, and everyone behaving in a
  scandalous manner.

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The Roaring TwentiesThe reality

• War disturbing and destructive
• Life is short enjoy it!!!!!!!

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1920s - Government

• Immigration quotas keep undesirable people out
• Isolationist policies worry about ourselves not
  the rest of the world
• Pro-business Republican presidents Harding and
  Coolidge laissez-faire

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1920s - Society

• Threat of communism Will they take over?
• Fear of immigrants
• Fear of labor movement I do not like their
  radical ideas!

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1920s - Technology

• Growth of automobile industry
• Airlines as transportation
• Widespread use of electricity
• Advertising increases

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1920s Economy

• Increased standards of living
• Buying on credit installment plans
• Superficial prosperity People bought more than
  they could afford by using credit.