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Title: 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.
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