The 20s at a Glance

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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

• 18th Amendment 1919
• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Al Capone

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St. Valentines Day Massacre
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Fundamentalism

• Scopes Trial

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Sports
Gertrude Ederle
Babe Ruth
GOLF
Tennis
Jack Dempsey
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Flight
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Bessie Coleman
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Entertainment
Winnie the Pooh
Jazz Singer
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
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Inventions
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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 Army
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

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Election 1932

• Sum up politics of the 20s
• Change?
• FDR/Democrat