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Ch. 24 - The Roaring 20's

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Rise in UnemploymentAfter the government cut $ factories had to cut production
Trickle-down-theoryTax cuts for wealthy to stimulate investment in business
Rise in Prices of GoodsPeople rushed to buy products they couldn't buy during WWI
Kellogg-Briand PactOutlawed war
Helped Coolidge Win 1924 ElectionFiring all involved in Harding Administration Scandals
How Autobile Industry Affected EconomyOther Industries Began and Created Jobs
How Henry Ford Made Model T AffordableUsed Assembly-Line Technique to Produce Quickly and Cheaply
Radio & MoviesMade Possible With Existence of Plentiful Electricity
Ford's Model TOnly Came in Black
First For WomenAllowed Into College
Alfred E. SmithFirst Catholic Candidate
Palmer RaidsAfter bomb exploded outside attorney general's home
Why Eighteen Amendment was difficult to enforceCould not be supervised
How Fundamentalism Affected SocietyRural areas blamed urban areas for society's problems
KKKlynched African Americans
Effects of ProhibitionRise of organized crime
Red ScareFear of Communism
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo VanzettiVictims of fear of immigrants
Native AmericansHard time fighting for rights because they were not U.S. citizens
1927First movie with sound
Blues MusicInfluenced by African American sufferings
Mass CultureAmericans shared common experiences
Amelia EarhartFirst woman to fly solo across Atlantic
Ernest HemingwayInfluenced by experiences by WWI
JazzBecame popular with Great Migration
Roaring 20'sBooming economy and exciting new entertainment
Lost GenerationExpressed feelings of separation from American society
Herbert HooverElected because he promised to continue economic boom
Langston HughesWrote a poem about African American pride and faith in American dream
ExpatriatesPeople leave home to live elsewhere
Marcus GarveyEncouraged African Americans to own their own businesses and communities
Warren HardingPromised "normalcy". Died in office
Installment plansAllowed people to buy expensive products on credit
Georgia O'KeefeFamous for painting Southwest


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