1. The Six P’s of the 1920s
From Boom to Bust

2. How would one characterize the United States following World War I?
Renewed isolationism—keep to ourselves
Xenophobia - Resurgence of Nativism
fear of foreigners
Trend toward conservative politics that caused a turning away from governmental activism of the Progressive era
Culture becomes more liberal
Fear of Communism

3. Prosperity Politics in the 1920s
Presidents Harding and Coolidge
Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Isolationism and high protective tariffs
Limiting Immigration
Quota System
Teapot Dome and the “Ohio Gang”
President Calvin Coolidge and the Politics of Prosperity

4. Progress and Conflict of the 1920s
Technology and Mass Production
Henry Ford and the Impact of the automobile
Electrical Conveniences
The rise of the Modern American Consumer
Advertising and Buying on Credit
Change in clothing styles
Radio and Motion Pictures

6. Progress and Conflict continued
Changing Values of the 1920s
Fundamentalism vs. Modernism
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Rural vs. Urban
Urban Sprawl and the Rise of
the Suburbs
The Twenties Woman

7. Paranoia in the 1920s The Red Scare in the United States
The Palmer Raids
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Immigration Restrictions
Labor unrest

8. Prohibition in the 1920s Organized Crime and Al Capone
Prohibition, Speakeasies, and Bootleggers
Politics of Organized Crime
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
21st Amendment

9. Pop-Culture of the 1920s Sports “Lucky Lindy”—Charles Lindbergh
Music of the 1920s
The Jazz Age and American
Composers
Literature of the 1920s
Hollywood in the 1920s
Talkies
Fads of the 1920s
The Harlem Renaissance and the flowering of African-American Culture in the 1920s