American Life in the Roaring Twenties, 1919-1929

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Chapters Thirty-two Thirty-Three

• American Life in the Roaring Twenties, 1919-1929
• The Politics of Boom
• and Bust,
• 1920-1932

American Pageant
Kennedy, Cohen, Bailey
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• Election of 1920

Republicans Leonard
Wood, Hiram W. Johnson, Warren G. Harding
Candidates Warren G.
Harding Pres. Calvin Coolidge V.P.
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• Election of 1920

Republican Candidates
Warren G. Harding Pres.
Calvin Coolidge V.P.
Harding
Coolidge
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• Election of 1920

Democrats William McAdoo,
A. Mitchell Palmer, James M. Cox
Candidates James M.
Cox Pres. F. D. Roosevelt V.P.
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• Election of 1920

Democrats James M. Cox
Pres. Franklin D.
Roosevelt V.P.
Cox
Roosevelt
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• Election of 1920

Socialists Eugene V. Debs
Pres.
Debs
Debs in Prison
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• Election of 1920

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• Red Scare of 1919

Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco

• Mitchell Palmer
• U.S. Attorney-General

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• Ku Klux Klan of 1920s

D.W. Griffith Birth of a Nation, 1915
Klan on Parade in Washington D.C. 1920s
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• Immigration Restrictions

Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Immigration Act of
1924
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• Prohibition

18th Amendment 1919 Volstead Act
of 1920 - Speakeasies
Yes, its a noble experiment!
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• Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925

Butler Act of 1925 - Tennessee
The Verdict
Best Minds
The Sun, July 21, 1925
The Sun, July 22, 1925
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• Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925

American Civil Liberties Union John T. Scopes
Clarence Darrow William Jennings
Bryan
Darrow Bryan
Scopes
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• Mass Consumption Economy

Henry Ford Assembly Line
System Advertising Autos Ford Frederick W.
Taylor
Henry Ford
Model T - 1915
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• Mass Consumption Economy

Charles Lindbergh - Aircraft
U.S. Postal Service
The Spirit of St. Louis 1927
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• Mass Communications

Radio KDKA - Pittsburg, PA
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• Mass Entertainment

Motion Pictures
The Great Train Robbery 1903
Birth of a Nation 1915
The Jazz Singer - 1927
The Great Train Robbery
The Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation
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• Harding Administration - Cabinet

Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Secretary
of Treasury Andrew Mellon Secretary of the
Interior Albert B. Fall U.S. Attorney-General Harr
y M. Daugherty
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• Harding Administration - Court

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court William
Howard Taft (1921-1930) Charles
Evans Hughes (1930-1941)
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• Harding Foreign Affairs

Treaty of Versailles Joint Resolution
of Congress July 1921 Washington Naval
Disarmament Conference 1921-1922
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• Harding Foreign Affairs

Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
(Pact of
Paris) Fordnew-McCumber Tariff of 1922
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• Harding Scandals

Teapot Dome Scandal
Juggernaut, 1924
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• Harding Scandals

Charles R. Forbes Albert B.
Fall Harry F. Sinclair
Edward L. Doheny Harry M.
Daugherty
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• Election of 1924

Keep Cool with Coolidge Republicans Calvin
Coolidge Democrats John W. Davis Progressives
Robert La Follette
Coolidge
Davis
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al_monkeytrial_04.html The Verdict Cartoon -
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