The Roaring Twenties!

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The Roaring Twenties!

• Chapters 22-23

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Post-War Life in America

• Economy and Strikes
• The Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• ACLU

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Politics of the 20s

• Warren Harding1920
• Laissez Faire
• Andrew Mellon
• Ohio Gang
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Calvin Coolidge1924
• Silent Cal

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Roaring 20s

• Prosperity
• Autos and Ripple Effect
• Advertising and Credit

Henry Ford the Model T
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Changing
Values
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Music and Dance
Jazz Age
Flappers
Radio Phonograph
Big Bands
Fox-Trot, Camel Walk, Tango, Charleston
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Silent Movies
"Picture Palaces"
Rudolph Valentino
Charlie Chaplin
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
"The Jazz Singer"...1927
First Talking Movie
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Sports
Radio
Glory Years
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The Hero's Hero
Lindbergh
The Spirit of St. Louis
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Confusion in the 1920s

• Farmers
• Blacks
• Harlem Renaissance
• KKK
• Prohibition
• Scopes Monkey Trial

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Election of 1928
Rep...H. Hoover
Wins in Landslide
Dem...A. Smith
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Will the Bubble
Burst???