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"people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth." -Lucy Foley
This quote best captures the essence of the decade because it shows how people lived during the roaring 20's. All they did was party without worry, which led to many consequences in the future.

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The lyrics of this song are about a person calling out for their loved one. This song shows how many people in the 1920's separated from their loved ones.

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Flappers wore short skirts, listened to jazz music, bobbed their hair, and gave off a cocky and disdained attitude.

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Jack Dempsey was an American Boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927. Sports flourished throughout the 20's because promoters saw them as a way to make more money.

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The cartoon was published in Los Angeles Times. The cartoonists main idea was that regular surveys of business "health" were conducted by the U.S. Dept. of commerce under secretary Herbert Hoover.

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The chart shows that the economy during the 1920's was struggling, money was being spent recklessly. The struggle for money led to the great depression.

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Herbert's policies were different from the previous two presidents because he believed that the federal government should be in some control of the economy.

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H  igh Tariffs

A nti Union

L aissez Faire

T ricle Down Policies

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What Hardings agenda looked like was: taxes were reduced, high protective tariffs were enacted, and immigration was limited.

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Brief history of Laissez Faire economics through the Gilded Age in the United States. Created by Rachel Wittwer and Elma Tatarevic

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Warren G. Harding's Presidential Campaign

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Warren G. Harding's Presidential Campaign

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Returning to Normalcy is returning to the way life was before WWI. An example of returning to normalcy would be to return to big businesses.

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The lost generation was the generation that came during WWI. Their name was given to them because they "lost" their inherited values. They became materialistic, provincial, and emotionally barren.

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Dec 6, 1919: Seattle Strike
1920: development of Jazz music
1920: prohibition begins in US
Jan 2, 1920: Palmer Raids
Jan 16, 1920: 18th amendment is passed
August 18, 1920: 19th amendment passed
May 31, 1921: Sacco-Vanzetti Trail
Jan 1, 1923: Model T. Ford was invented
Aug 2, 1923: President Harding dies and Coolidge becomes president
1923: Margret Sanger opened the first permanent birth control clinic
1924: National Origins Act of 1924
Jan 1, 1924: KKK is reborn
May 5, 1925: Scopes Trail
1925: ¨The Great Gatsby¨ is published
Jan 27, 1926: Telivisor is invented
May 10, 1927: Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
October 27, 1927: ¨The Jazz Singer¨ is released and the TV talks
1928: Kellogg-Briand Act outlawing war
November 6, 1928: Hoover becomes president
1929: US spent 4.5 billion dollars on entertainment
Feb 14, 1929: St. Valentines Day Massacre
October 1929: stock market crashes
1931: Al Capone arrested

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This group essentially was the passage to the constitutional amendment ensuring women´s suffrage throughout the United States. They protested outside the White House and were called the ¨Silent Sentinels¨ (like our mascot!!!) as well as using picket signs and going on hunger strikes to gain publicity for their suffrage and rights.

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He was seen as a great phenomenon across the country as he took the chance to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. His flight helped America gain its confidence in air travel and innovation.

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Charles Lindbergh - From New York to Paris 1927

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His quote,¨A man who builds a factory, build a temple¨ means that a factory has a power such as a temple over the people that work there that they are forced to depend on. This quote predicts that the relationship between business and government is very close because of the postwar employment dependence and strikes, as well as inflation.

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This was the national wide ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the US. By implementing this, it ideally was supposed to decrease crime, corruption, lower taxes for prisons, and improve health and hygiene. Instead, organized crime grew (Al Capone) and alcohol began more dangerous to consume.

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John T. Scopes was accused of violating the ¨Tennessee Butler Act¨ which made it unlawful to teach human evolution at any state funded school. He was found guilty in which William Jennings Bryan was for prosecution and Clarence Darrow was his defendant. This case was seen as a theological contest and debated whether modern science should be taught in school, making the 20s appear education religiously influenced.

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Food and Clothing prices began to rise, caused by wartime inflation. Laborers begun to go on strike and it was not fully finished until all the labor union had been diminished as numbers began to dwindle. A number of other strikes rose in the period such as the 1920 Alabama Coal Strike, the Great Railroad Strike of 1922, and the Portland Waterfront strikes.

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Henry Ford wanted to build an affordable car that the average, working american could afford. He created the first assembly line which increased production value. As well, he paid his workers a wage of $5 an hour, so his workers would stay loyal, and continue to buy his cars, which caused other wealthy class members began to call him a ¨traitor¨.

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A growing mobster in the 20s grew up as a child of Italian immigrants, later to be perceived as one of the most successful gangsters of all time. In creating his image, he wanted to be seen as successful through his clothing and his power as he rose in his Chicago mafia. He became so accomplished through his system of organized crime and ¨laying low¨. One of his most famous organized crimes was his St. Valentine´s Day Massacre.

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The Harlem renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic expulsion. It created a new black cultural identity. 3 of the greatest contributors were Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Weldon Johnson.

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The significance of Jazz music in the 1920's is that it created social change and diversity among the people. Bessie Smith, Jenny roll Morton, and Benny goodman, were all well known and popular Jazz singers.

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Bessie Smith (Down Hearted Blues, 1923) Jazz Legend

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Immigration Policies and National Origins Act of 1924

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Immigration Policies and National Origins Act of 1924

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This act severely limited the number of immigrants coming into America by establishing a system of national quotas that discriminated against immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia. By implementing this act, it continued old immigration and dropped the immigration of 500,000 people every year.

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Women's attitude completely changed throughout the sexual revolution in the 1920's. Their attire went from conservative and formal, to revealing and flashy.

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The emergence of the KKK was created by six ex-confederates but was disbanded by the reconstruction. 50 years later, in 1915, William Joseph Simmons created the rebirth of the Klan by climbing a mountain and setting a cross on fire. Going into the KKK began to not only hate blacks but Catholics, Jews, and Foreigners also while advocating for "white supremacy". Mid 1920's the KKK had 8 million members and began to move their way into and dominate politics.

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The two brothers were convicted of robbery and murder. During their trail, they were prejudiced against the judge and jury to begin with because they were Italian radicals and immigrants. They were sentenced to death but were tried unfairly on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence.

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These raids were set up by the United States Department of Justice to hunt and deport radical labor unions and anarchists from the US, such caused by the Red Scare.

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The Palmer Raids Explained: US History Review

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Also relating to ¨nativism¨, is the loyalty to the US and unfailing love for the country.  An example of Americanism  is the superior rights to the ¨foreign born¨, like the KKK. Another example is the ¨Red Scare¨ of 1919-1920 because they wanted to prevent the ¨Russian anarchy¨. The Act of 1929 was another example because of its establishment of cut immigration in half.

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Motion pictures became a big deal in the 1920's. The Jazz singer was the first sound film.