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POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY FOLLOWING THE GREAT WAR
America in the Roaring Twenties
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US Presidents
Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
Return to Normalcy
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Consumer Culture
Result of Mass Production
Assembly Line32% Boost in
Productivity8% Wage IncreaseAutomobilesRadioPhonograph
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Leisure Time
Welfare Capitalism Shorter Work DaysVacation TimeProfessional SportsAmusement ParksRadio ProgramsSilent Movies
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Prohibition
Pleasure Without Guilt
18th Amendment Volstead Act
SpeakeasyOrganized CrimeAl Capone
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The New Woman
19th AmendmentFlapperWomen Join the Work
ForceWomen of the South
and Midwest
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African-Americans
Harlem RenaissancePlight of African-
Americans Largely Ignored
Racial Discrimination and Segregation
Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Depression
Stock Prices Rose 400%
Stocks Bought and Sold on Credit
October 29,1929 Black Tuesday
Bank FailuresHigh UnemploymentEconomy Lost Over
Half its Value
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1920’s Considered
Time of change and economic prosperityChanges were not shared equallyAmerican isolationismThe Great DepressionFDR and the New DealRise of totalitarian states in Italy, Japan,
Russia, and Germany