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Roaring Twenties. Warren G. Harding. Thought he lacked the intelligence to be president Teapot Dome Scandal gov’t official received bribes for allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves. Calvin Coolidge. Became president when Harding died
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Warren G. Harding • Thought he lacked the intelligence to be president • Teapot Dome Scandal • gov’t official received bribes for allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves
Calvin Coolidge • Became president when Harding died • Aligned himself & gov’t with big business • Gov’t should not interfere with business
Producing Great Quantities of Goods • By 1920’s: • The U.S. was the dominant economic power in the world • The automobile was an accepted part of life • New morality glorified personal freedom
Producing Great Quantities of Goods • Installment plan • Most Americans purchased with credit • Henry Ford • Assembly Line: enormously increased manufacturing efficiency by dividing the job into simple tasks
Prohibition • 18th Amendment (1920): prohibited alcohol • Volstead Act: reinforced 18th Amendment • Speakeasies: Illegal bars
Prohibition • Organized Crime • Al Capone- gangster in Chicago • Bootlegging- illegal production & distribution of liquor • 21stAmendment • Repealed prohibition
Fundamentalist Movement • Rejected the bible being free from errors • Scopes Trial • John Scopes put on trial for teaching evolution
Flappers • Women who bobbed their hair and drank prohibited liquor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrQUz_mkUg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active (2:25)
Charles A. Lindbergh • Made first solo transatlantic flight
Writing in the 1920’s • Ernest Hemmingway • A Farewell to Arms • Portrayed war’s meaningless violence through a different kind of hero
Harlem Renaissance • The blossoming of African American arts occurred
Entertainment • Jazz Age • Louis Armstrong • Introduced early form of Jazz • Movies • Charlie Chaplin • Silent films • First talking movie The Jazz Singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsd6FX3C0c&safe=active