1. Review for Test on 1920s

2. Return to Normalcy
Time before war began
Warren G. Harding

3. Installment Buying
Customers make partial payments over a period of time until total debt is paid.

4. Reason for not joining League of Nations
Americans felt it would drag us into future wars.

5. Was everyone prosperous during the 1920s?
Wealthy got wealthier, farmers were poor, and average citizens not really affected.

6. Why was it called the “Roaring Twenties?”
It was a time of prosperity and enjoyment

7. Impact of Assembly Line
Produce more goods and at a lower price

8. Harding/Coolidge
They believed the government should do less

9. Teapot Dome Scandal

10. Farmers were not prosperous

11. Harlem Renaissance
Rebirth of African American culture – poetry, art, and music.

12. Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes tested a Tennessee law that forbid the teaching of evolution in school.
He was found guilty.

13. Red Scare
Fear of communism – led to restriction of immigrants

14. Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian immigrants arrested for robbery and murder – executed.
Important– fear of foreigners

15. Impact of Auto Industry
Growth of industries – steel, rubber, glass.
Growth of suburbs
Why was there an increased use of restaurants, hotels because of automobiles ?
People took drives and had to stop.

16. Flappers
New type of woman – young rebellious, fun loving<3 and bold

17. Heroes of the 1920s
Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh

18. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Group that opposed drinking because it led to problems in the families

19. Fads of the 1920s
Stunt flying, dance marathons, and flagpole sitting

20. Prohibition Amendments
18th – prohibition
21st – repealed prohibition

21. Speakeasies
Illegal bars that flourished in the cities.

22. Other Notes Strikes increased – low wages, poor working conditions
Immigration – restricted by quotas
First talkie movie – Jazz singer
Prohibition – ban of alcohol
Bootleggers – smuggled alcohol
Calvin Coolidge- equals successful business
law of supply and demand – farmers after WWI – supply up demand down. Cost was down.

23. Essay - Social, Economic and Political Changes that took place during 1920s

24. Social Fads – dance marathons, flag pole sitting
Women - Flappers, independent, short skirts, lipstick, bobs
Mass Media – Radio
Heroes - Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh
Harlem Renaissance

25. Political 1924 – first women governor Return to normalcy
Laissez-faire policy by Harding and Coolidge
Allowed for businesses to prosper. Legislation supporting business not workers
18th Amendment - Prohibition
19th Amendment – women’s right to vote

26. Economic Installment buying - Made goods available for all people
Assembly line – Ford. Created a demand for glass, rubber, and steel.
Farmers did not prosper – faced hardship since demand fell
less government intervention allowed for increase in production, problems in factory.