https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x History en-us 2018-01-02 20:05:39 UTC 2025-10-01 23:15:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png gary_kupinski486 https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218396822 America began pulling away from world affairs and started moving towards a policy called isolationism. They did not want to be involved in Europe anymore because of what WW1 did to them. Then people began to become afraid of communism, or the "Red Scare". Several dozen bombs were sent to the government and business leaders. The Palmer raids were a huge failure in trying to find any evidence of a revolutionary conspiracy. America also began to limit immigration because many of Nativist Americans thought immigrants could be communists.

]]> 2018-01-02 20:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218396822 gary_kupinski486 https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218399552 Many people thought that banning alcohol would help stop crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on the job, and other serious social problems. Big businesses were also behind this idea because they thought that without alcohol they would have more money to buy other things but that did not work out the way they were hoping it would. The prohibition also led to many other problems. One of which was Organized Crime, Organized Crime boomed because they would make and sell illegal alcohol to citizens in places called speakeasies. This was not a harmless crime because it led to huge gun-fights in the streets between different gangs.

]]> 2018-01-02 20:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218399552 gary_kupinski486 https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218399867 The automobile changed American landscape. Route 66 provided a route to for people heading west from Chicago to California. It also launched the rapid construction of gasoline stations, repair-stations, public garages, motels, tourists camps, and shopping centers. It also boosted the economic base for cities in Ohio and Michigan. It drew people towards oil producing states like California and Texas. The Airplane business started as a mail carrying service for the US Post office. Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart promoted cargo and commercial airline flights. With both the automobile and the Airplane people have more choices of transportation, so fewer people would be taking the railroads. American factories used electricity to power their machines. Credit was another big thing that came in this era, credit helped people by letting them buy something that they would not be able to get at the time and being able to pay it later. Now, this may sound good but some people didn't have the money to pay it and they would have to sell something to get the money and then get another installment plan for what they sold. I think that the installment plan just sets people up for an endless loop that never ends. Some businesses did not do well, the railroads, for instance, were not as popular as they had been because of all the new ways of transportation.

]]> 2018-01-02 20:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218399867 gary_kupinski486 https://padlet.com/gary_kupinski486/h7yr2bnt4r0x/wish/218399978 Britain and France owed $10 Billion dollars to America. They could either sell goods to the United States or they could collect reparations from Germany. Harding Introduced very high tariffs on US imports. This tax protected US businesses from foreign competition. The US loaned Germany $2.5 to pay back France and Britain, this act became known as the Dawes act. Harding was also at the center of a major scandal. His cabinet including the Ohio Gang, Harding's main problem was that he did not understand many of the issues. His Cabinet began to fall apart while his corrupt friends used their power to get rich. One of them was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies. The Teapot Dome Scandal is where Albert B. Fall secretly sold the land to two private oil companies.

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