THE “ROARING TWENTIES” CHAPTER 30 AND 31

1920’s LEARNING TARGETS: 1. I can explain how the 1920’s were a decade of pro-business Republican controlled government and what that meant for progressive ideals.   2. I can explain how the Communist Revolution impacted life in the United States from the “Red Scare” to immigration policies. 3. I can describe why Prohibition (a progressive idea for good) evolves into a gangster related culture focused on breaking the law. 4. I understand how the young people of this decade became known as the “Lost Generation” after having survived World War I. 5. I am able to describe to others why this decade was known as the “Jazz Age” and what social and cultural changes took place that made it that way. 6. I can explain to others the changing roles of minorities and women during this period including such things as the 19th Amendment and the Harlem Renaissance.

THE “ROARING TWENTIES” I. The Conservative 1920’s. A. B. Warren G. Harding 1. 2. “Return to Normalcy” 3. “The Poker Cabinet.” 4. 5. “Laissez-faire” 6. The Supreme Court 7. 8. The Teapot Dome Scandal 9. August 2, 1923.

THE “ROARING TWENTIES” II. Calvin Coolidge (a.k.a. “Silent Cal”) A. The 1924 Election 1. 2. 3. 4. B. Coolidge as President

THE “ROARING TWENTIES” III. Herbert Hoover (a.k.a. “Wonder Boy”) The 1928 Election 1. 2. 3. B. The Hoover Administration

THE “ROARING TWENTIES” IV. Foreign Relations During the 1920’s We are primarily “Isolationist.” The “Red Scare” has made the nation anti-Communist and anti-immigration. Pageant PG. 700-704 We become a “Dry” country with the “Volstead Act (18th Amendment.) Kellogg-Briand Act: No more war. The Dawes Plan: Getting our money back.

THE “ROARING TWENTIES” V. The Stock Market Crash March 4, 1929. October 1929. Pageant PG. 740 October 29, 1929 “Black Tuesday.” The Banks Fail. The Stock Market loses millions.