1. POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY FOLLOWING THE GREAT WAR America in the Roaring Twenties

2. US Presidents Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge 1923- 1929 Herbert Hoover 1929- 1933 Return to Normalcy

3. Consumer Culture Result of Mass Production Assembly Line 32% Boost in Productivity 8% Wage Increase Automobiles Radio Phonograph

4. Leisure Time Welfare Capitalism Shorter Work Days Vacation Time Professional Sports Amusement Parks Radio Programs Silent Movies

5. Prohibition Pleasure Without Guilt 18 th Amendment Volstead Act Speakeasy Organized Crime Al Capone

6. The New Woman 19 th Amendment Flapper Women Join the Work Force Women of the South and Midwest

7. African-Americans Harlem Renaissance Plight of African- Americans Largely Ignored Racial Discrimination and Segregation Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

8. Depression Stock Prices Rose 400% Stocks Bought and Sold on Credit October 29,1929 Black Tuesday Bank Failures High Unemployment Economy Lost Over Half its Value

9. 1920’s Considered Time of change and economic prosperity Changes were not shared equally American isolationism The Great Depression FDR and the New Deal Rise of totalitarian states in Italy, Japan, Russia, and Germany