The 20s at a Glance

Red Scare

• Palmer Raids/Deportation

• National Origins Act 1924/Quotas

• KKK

• Nativism

• Sacco & Vanzetti

Economy & Business

• Henry Ford/Effect on Society

• Radio

• Advertising

• Effect on Worker/Welfare Capitalism

Economy & The Household

• Credit

• Installment plans

Prohibition

• 18th Amendment 1919

• Bootlegging

• Speakeasies

• Al Capone

Fundamentalism

• Scopes Trial

Sports

Babe Ruth

Gertrude Ederle

Jack Dempsey

GOLF

Tennis

Flight

Charles Lindbergh

Amelia Earhart

Bessie Coleman

Entertainment

Charlie Chaplin

Jazz Singer

Rudolph Valentino

Winnie the Pooh

Inventions

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

Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge

• VP Harding/Republican

• Limited role government

• Role of Business?

• Federal Budget

• Veteran Bonuses

Herbert Hoover

• Elected 1928/Republian• Stock Market Crash• Reaction to Depression• Business & Gov. • Hoover Dam• Cooperatives-Farmers• Hoovervilles• Bonus Army• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Election 1932

• Sum up politics of the 20s

• Change?

• FDR/Democrat