The Roaring
Twenties

A. President Harding
1. Proposed lower taxes on American
made goods.
2. Chose a pro business cabinet
3. Believed in a policy of laissez-faire
B. Scandals while President
1. Ohio Gang
2. Teapot Dome Scandal
 C. Harding
dies in office and is replaced
by Calvin Coolidge.
1. Continues Harding’s ideas.
2. Believes in laissez-faire
3. Refuses to help farmers across the nation.
 A.Youth
celebrate
new fashion, attitudes
and ways of behavior.
 B. New
Roles for Women.
 C. 18th
Amendment Prohibition (Repealed by
the 21st Amendment in 1933)
 D. The
Scopes Trial in
Tennessee
Clarence Darrow
arguing the Scope’s
Trial
1. Problems developed
between different
kinds of people.
a)
b)
c)
d)
African Americans and
Whites
Native born citizens and
immigrants
Urban and rural
communities
Fundamentalists and the
Scientific community
 A. People
make more
money, had shorter
work days and
bought labor saving
devices.
 B. Movies, radio
and
sports grow in
popularity.
Ethyle Clare, Movie star
Babe Ruth
 C. The
automobile
industry booms
under the
direction of
Henry Ford.
D. A time of prosperity
1. new gadgets like the vacuum, refrigerator, fan
and radio.
2. Lindbergh flies over the Atlantic. His nickname
was Lucky Lindy.