Unit 7 – The Roaring Twenties During the 1920s, many Americans prospered. Radio, movies, and the automobile changed people’s lifestyles. Racial and labor unrest as well as prejudice towards foreigners also affected American society. The 1920s were known as the Roaring Twenties because: 1920s
Political Changes
Red Scare • Red Scare: • Sacco & Vanzetti: Prohibition • 18th Amendment: • Organized Crime: Economic Changes
Booming Economy
Installment buying: Cultural Changes
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Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes: Changes for Women
• Flappers: • 19th Amendment: Unit 7 – Key Terms 1. Roaring Twenties 2. Red Scare 3. Prohibition 4. 18th Amendment 5. 19th Amendment 6. Installment buying 7. Harlem Renaissance Unit 8 – The Great Depression The 1920s ended with the worst economic depression in America’s history. President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was a set of programs and reforms aimed at helping the country recover from the Depression that lasted into the 1930s. Some of the programs still exist today. CAUSES EFFECTS 1. Unemployment 1. Overproduction: 2. Homelessness 3. Migration – People from the Dust Bowl went West as migrant workers. 2. Credit problems/debt : 4. Power of government: 3. Buying on margin: 5. Banks Failures: 4. Stock market crash – Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. 5. Dust Bowl: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s actions to help end the Depression: • New Deal: ___________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ •
Social Security: _______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________