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-World War I and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's tax policies brought prosperity to the mid-1920s.
-Bruce Barton founded advertising.
-Sports became a big business in the consumer economy of the 1920s.
-Buying in credit was another new feature of the postwar economy.  Prosperity thus led to increased personal debt, and the economy became increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure.

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The automobile industry boomed, creating millions of jobs, and raising America's standard of living. This caused growth in the petroleum business, while the railroad industry took a big hit. The widespread creation of automobiles allowed for communities to expand, and for women to depend on men less and less.

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Fear of Russia swept across the country in the years following the communist Bolshevik revolution of 1917.

Striking employees were viewed as Un-American

some states passed criminal syndicalism laws that made it illegal to advocate the use of violence to obtain social change.

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-The automobile industry started an industrial revolution in the 1920s.
-It created a new industrial system based on assembly-line methods and mass-production techniques.
-Detroit became the motorcar capital of the world.
-Henry Ford, father of the moving assembly line (Fordism), created the Model T.  By 1930, more than 20 million Model Ts were being driven in the country.

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During the 20s, Hollywood became the movie capital of the world. Motion picture was used in anti-German propaganda during WWI.

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The KKK grew in the early 1920s out of the growing intolerance and prejudice of the American public.

The Klan was antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control.  It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant.

It fell apart in the late 1920s after it was discovered that Klan official were embezzling money.

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-Violent wars broke out in the big cities between rival gangs, who sought control of the illegal booze market.
-In Chicago, "Scarface" Al Capone, a murderous booze distributor, began 6 years of gang warfare that generated millions of dollars.
-Gangsters began to move into other profitable and illicit activities:  prostitution, gambling, narcotics, and kidnapping for ransom.
-Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnapped for ransom and then murdered, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law in 1932, making interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense.

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-In the 1920s, states started to put a larger focus on education.
- Principles of "learning by doing" that formed the foundation of so-called progressive education.
-"education for life" should be a primary goal of the teacher.

Science and healthcare also improved during the 1920s.
-Darwinism evolution was destroying faith in God and the Bible, while contributing to the moral breakdown of youth.
- John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching evolution.  At the "Monkey Trial," Scopes was defended by Clarence Darrow, while former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan prosecuted him.

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Isolationist Americans of the 1920s felt they had no use for immigrants. The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 placed a quota on the number of European immigrants who could come to America each year; it was set at 3% of the people of their nationality who had been living in the United States in 1910.

The quota system significantly reduced immigration.
The Immigration Act of 1924 ended the era of unrestricted immigration to the United States.

The Immigration Act of 1924 replaced the Quota Act.

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The 18th Amendment, passed in 1919, banned alcohol. It was enforced by the Volstead Act.

Prohibition was popular in the South, where white southerners wanted to keep stimulants out of the hands of blacks, and in the West, where alcohol was associated with crime and corruption.

"Speakeasies" replaced saloons.  Prohibition caused bank savings to increase and absenteeism in industry to decrease.

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9 Facts You Didn't Know about Prohibition

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Ah, prohibition. "The Noble Experiment," kick-started by the 18th Amendment and ended by the 21st, kept our nation booze-free for 13 years... at least in theory.

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The Americans are becoming ever more isolationist, or at least against the idea of getting involved in new wars. This exerts a strong influence on the choices made by the political class - starting from President Obama - on the role of the U.S. in the world, and therefore global stability, which oscillates a bit anyway. And the chaos in the Middle East is emblematic of this, caused by the conflict in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, which exploded after the failure of the only real foreign policy initiative the administration has taken on with John Kerry's attempt at relaunching peace negotiations.

There are multiple signs that confirm this trend. In 1964, Pew started taking a poll in which it asked Americans whether they agreed with this statement: "The United States should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own."* Last December, for the first time in the 50 years this survey has been conducted, an absolute majority of participants, 52 percent, stated that they shared this view. However, during the first half of July, the website Politico commissioned a poll of likely voters in the most contested electoral districts and states for the November midterm election, and the results were even more clear-cut. Only 17 percent said that the U.S. should do more to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine, as compared to 34 percent who deemed the initiatives taken until now to have been excessive. Fifty-one percent maintained that the chaos in Iraq has little or no impact on national security, and 44 percent would like the U.S. to do even less than it is now in order to restore peace. Also, 75 percent want to complete the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. Finally, in Syria, 42 percent want less involvement, as compared to only 15 percent who would like to do more to stop the bloodshed.

The historical precedents of this attitude are not few, from Wilson's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I to the resistance toward getting involved in World War II.** Today, there are two main reasons for this: the reaction to the invasion of Iraq, and the economic crisis that drives the U.S. to deal with domestic problems. The effects are obvious. Obama was elected thanks to his promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in his recent speech on foreign policy at West Point, he said that the U.S. should only use force "when our core interests demand it ― when our people are threatened; when our livelihoods are at stake; when the security of our allies is in danger." For example, the use of chemical weapons in Syria did not fall under these categories, and according to his critics, such prudence has galvanized the president's rivals, starting with Putin in Ukraine.

However, much like China's ambitions or the violence of Islamic extremists, the resurgence of the Cold War is making the U.S. think. Is this neo-isolationism compatible with national interests and security in the long term? The neoconservative Robert Kagan responded to this question through an essay entitled "Superpowers Don't Get to Retire," which raised a discussion among the best minds in foreign policy. The temptation is understandable after having shouldered the international balance for 70 years, but "superpowers don't get to retire," especially if they are "the indispensable nation" for defending an order based on, if possible, the principles of liberal democracy, as Bill Clinton used to say.

The debate already goes beyond the midterm elections, cutting across the possible contenders for the 2016 presidential elections. Among the Republicans, Rubio and Perry are pro-interventionists, whereas Paul leans toward isolationism. Among Democrats, Hillary is already winking at Kagan, and even Biden falls along this line, whereas someone like Elizabeth Warren would most likely look inward. What's important for all is never forgetting Roosevelt's statement when Mussolini declared war: "Some indeed still hold to the now somewhat obvious delusion that we of the United States can safely permit the United States to become a lone island, a lone island in a world dominated by the philosophy of force." But "there comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments, and their very civilization are founded."

*Editor's Note: This is how the question is worded in today's polls. The wording of the 1964 question could not be verified.

**Editor's Note: President Wilson was actually a driving force behind the establishment of the League of Nations. The U.S. did not join because the Senate would not ratify the agreement, not because of Wilson's refusal.

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The Americans are becoming ever more isolationist, or at least against the idea of getting involved in new wars. This exerts a strong influence on the choices made by the political class - starting from President Obama - on the role of the U.S. in the world, and therefore global stability, which oscillates a bit anyway.

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A presentation by Jacob Benavidez created with Haiku Deck, free presentation software that is simple, beautiful, and fun.

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Communists have infiltrated the United States in the 1950s. The class must use their wits to determine who is guilty and who is innocent. The purpose of the game Red Scare is to simulate the wild accusations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s and also to simulate the paranoia following the accusations.

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Due to the advancements of Gasoline engines, airplanes were invited. The first flight took place on December 17, 1903, by the Wright brothers. The flight lasted only 12 seconds.

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The 1920s featured the first voice-carrying radio, the first advancement in telecommunications since the telegraph in the 1890s. The radio brought people back to their homes, and were great educational and cultural contributions.

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Far-reaching changes in lifestyles and values paralleled the dramatic upsurge of the economy. Alice Paul’s National Woman’s party began in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. (The campaign was still stalled short of success nearly nine decades later.) To some defenders of traditional ways, it seemed that the world had suddenly gone mad.

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Likewise in literature and the arts, an older era seemed to have ground to a halt with the recent war. By the dawn of the 1920s, most of the custodians of an aging genteel culture had died. Henry James in 1916, Henry Adams in 1918, and William Dean Howells (“the Dean of American literature”) in 1920.

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Signals abounded that the economic joyride might end in a crash; even in the best years of
the 1920s, several hundred banks failed annually.The stock exchange provided even greater sensations. As Wall Street bulls gored one another and fleeced greedy lambs. The stock market became a veritable gambling den. As the 1920s lurched forward, everybody seemed to be buying stocks “on margin”—that is, with a small down payment.