• Companies focused on inventing & producing consumer goods Examples: radios, automobiles, icebox, washing machine, vacuum cleaner

• People buying goods using “credit”

• mass production of goods = cheaper products

• increased use of advertisingto sell products

• Car ownership grew 18 million from 1920 to 1930

• New roads = more mobility, causing growth in the suburbs

• Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 transatlantic flight – could fly

across the Atlantic Ocean

• Republican President elected in 1920

• Most famous for three scandals:

- “Ohio Gang” (president’s advisors caught using power of the

presidency to get rich) - Teapot Dome Scandal

(extreme example- gov. claimed some land oil- rich land for supplying the navy, but the secretary of the navy secretly let private companies get and use the oil in return for $)

- Mysterious death in S.F at the Palace Hotel in 1923

• Harding’s Vice President

• Became President in 1923 (after Harding’s death)

• Elected in 1924 with slogan “Coolidge or Chaos”

Anecdotes- ‘Silent Cal’ (you don’t have to write this stuff…)

•in private he was a man of few words and was therefore commonly referred to as "Silent Cal." A possibly apocryphal story has it that Dorothy Parker, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, "Mr. Coolidge, I've made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you." His famous reply: "You lose.“

•It was also Parker who, upon learning that Coolidge had died, reportedly remarked, "How can they tell?"

• Conservative pro-business Republican elected in 1928

• Believed in the individual & a small federal government

• Mitchell Palmer (U.S. Attorney General) started the “First Red

Scare”

• He deported immigrants during the “Palmer Raids”

• In 1921 & 1924 limits were placed on immigrants from Italy,

Russia, and Slavic nations.

• Fear and discrimination against immigrants & minority ethnic

groups spread throughout the U.S.Ex: Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

Question: Question: Why would AmericansWhy would Americans

dislike immigrants?dislike immigrants?

• The 18th Amendment “Volstead Act” prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol (1919)

• It was hard to enforce – smuggled and bootleg liquor was common – led to a rise in organized crime (mob)

• The 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933

• Gain right to vote in 1920 with the 19th

Amendment • Women expressed new

freedoms and political rights - birth control,

voting, and new fashions (though few in number,

flappers represented the “new woman”)

• Black Americans moved north to cities for jobs, but still suffered from discrimination

• KKK membership grew to 4.5 million by 1924

• Increase in Civil Rights groups fighting for change (ex: Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” movement)

• Era of Babe Ruth & Yankee Stadium

• Sports figures were heroes and big business (1927 Dempsey fight made $2.6 million)

• Negro National Baseball League started in the 1920s

• Rise of movie stars (Rudolph Valentino & Charlie Chaplin) became popular in the 1920s

• Talking movies started October 6th, 1927 with “The Jazz Singer”

• Harlem Renaissance – rebirth of black culture in New York City