POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY FOLLOWING THE GREAT WAR America in the Roaring Twenties.
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POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY FOLLOWING THE GREAT WAR
America in the Roaring Twenties
US Presidents
Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
Return to Normalcy
Consumer Culture
Result of Mass Production
Assembly Line32% Boost in
Productivity8% Wage IncreaseAutomobilesRadioPhonograph
Leisure Time
Welfare Capitalism Shorter Work DaysVacation TimeProfessional SportsAmusement ParksRadio ProgramsSilent Movies
Prohibition
Pleasure Without Guilt
18th Amendment Volstead Act
SpeakeasyOrganized CrimeAl Capone
The New Woman
19th AmendmentFlapperWomen Join the Work
ForceWomen of the South
and Midwest
African-Americans
Harlem RenaissancePlight of African-
Americans Largely Ignored
Racial Discrimination and Segregation
Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
Depression
Stock Prices Rose 400%
Stocks Bought and Sold on Credit
October 29,1929 Black Tuesday
Bank FailuresHigh UnemploymentEconomy Lost Over
Half its Value
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