History Padlet Group by Keagan Downey https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2018-02-01 13:09:23 UTC 2025-10-18 10:46:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png The Mass-Consumption Economy downey_kr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227011238 -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.

]]> 2018-02-01 13:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227011238 Seeing Red holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227014521
  • 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. 
    • ]]>     2018-02-01 13:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227014521     Putting America on Rubber Tires downey_kr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227015122 -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.]]>     2018-02-01 13:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227015122     Hollywood's Filmland Fantasies fowler_sa https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227015243 During the 20s, Hollywood became the movie capital of the world. Motion picture was used in anti-German propaganda during WWI.]]> 2018-02-01 13:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227015243 Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227016385
  • 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.
    • ]]>     2018-02-01 13:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227016385     The Golden Age of Gangsterism downey_kr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227016814 -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.

    ]]>     2018-02-01 13:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227016814     Monkey Business in Tennessee downey_kr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227017725 -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.

    ]]>     2018-02-01 13:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227017725     Stemming the Foreign Blood holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227017850
  • 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.
    • ]]>     2018-02-01 13:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227017850     The Advent of the Gasoline Age campese_bj https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227018755 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.]]> 2018-02-01 13:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227018755 The Prohibition "Experiment" holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227018766
  • 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.
    • ]]>     2018-02-01 13:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227018766     holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227019815 2018-02-01 13:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227019815 holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227023261 2018-02-01 13:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227023261 holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227023764 2018-02-01 13:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227023764 holdgate_gr https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227024160 2018-02-01 13:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227024160 Humans Develop Wings campese_bj https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227467747 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.]]> 2018-02-02 13:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227467747 The Radio Revolution campese_bj https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227468604 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.]]> 2018-02-02 13:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227468604 The Dynamic Decade fowler_sa https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227957632 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.]]> 2018-02-05 03:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227957632 Cultural iberation fowler_sa https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227962203 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.]]> 2018-02-05 04:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227962203 Wall Street's Big Bull Market fowler_sa https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227963060 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.]]>     2018-02-05 04:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/downey_kr/cdu51z0offsu/wish/227963060