The 1920s in America
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Home appliances (60% have power)
Birth of the automobile culture (23
million by 1930)
The home radio and advertising
Increasing leisure time and the
family vacation
Social changes (music,
dress, dating)
National celebrities
Republican Politics
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Regressive taxation
High tariffs
International isolationism
voluntarism
Fear of the Immigrant
Palmer Raids and the Red Scare
(1920)
 Immigration Restriction League
(literacy testing)
 National quota system
(2% of national group
existing in the U.S.)
 1890 date adjustment
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Prohibition
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Outlawing alcohol (18th Amendment)
Failure of the experiment
-corrupt officials
-Canadian borderlands
-Speakeasies
-mafia development
-home brewing
Repealed in 1933 (21st Amendment)
The Stock Market Crash,1929
Overproduction and
under-consumption
 European economic
depression
 International high tariff policies
 Loan defaults and deflation
 Federal Reserve policies
 Loss of investment income after
crash
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