Unit 7 Chapter 10
The Roaring Twenties
Skeleton Notes
Adjusting to Peace 1919-1921 Post World War I
- Isolationism –
- The Red Scare
- Palmer Raids
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Nativism
- Racism & Ku Klux Klan
Three Republican Presidents – Laissez Faire
- Policies to protect Business
- High Protective Tariffs
- Lowering Taxes on Wealthy
- Regulating Lax on Anti-Trust Acts
- Warren G. Harding – 1921-1923
- Return to Normalcy
- Ohio Gang
- Calvin Coolidge – 1923-1929
- Silent Cal
- Pro-business Laissez Faire
- Herbert Hoover – 1929-1933
- Rugged Individualism
- Big Business/Small Government
Factors that caused Prosperity of the 1920’s
- Rise of Automobile
- Henry Ford – Model T
- Rise of New Industries
- House Appliances
- Glenn Curtiss
- Assembly Line – Product Efficacy
- Mass Consumption
- Buying on Credit
- Speculation Boom
- Uneven Prosperity
Conflict of Cultural Values
- Prohibition
- 18th and 21st Amendments
- Speakeasies
- Frances Willard
- Temperance Movement
- Rise of Gangstas
- The Scopes Monkey Trial
- Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
- Religion v. Science
- John Scope - Tennessee Science Teacher
- William Jennings Bryan v. Clarence Darrow
- Immigration Restrictions
- Immigration Acts of the 20’s
- Eugenics
- Charles Davenport
- Social Darwinism
Emergence of New Values
- Women’s Roles
- Flappers
- Sigmund Freud
- Tin Pan Alley
- Vaudeville Shows
- Sheet Music/New York City
- Youth & Lost Generation
- Sinclair Lewis
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous Books of 20’s
- The Great Migration
- Significant Cities
- Harlem
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Impact on Black Community
- Langston Hughes/Alain Locke/Countee Cullen
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Marcus Garvey
- Black Nationalism/Back to Africa Movement
- Popular Heroes – Jack Dempsey/Babe Ruth/Spirit of St. Louis/ Charles Lindbergh/Pole Sitting