https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e Challenges and changes that the nation faced after World War I. en-us 2019-03-05 14:47:09 UTC 2026-02-10 11:05:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067176 - Americans owned around 40 percent of the world’s wealth, and that wealth
changed the way most Americans lived.
-Average annual income rose more than 35 percent during the period—from $522 to $705
-Gasoline powered much of the economic boom of the 1920s, but the use of electricity also transformed the nation.
-Development of an alternating electrical current made it possible to distribute electric power efficiently over longer distances.
-Electrical appliances made the lives of housewives easier, freed them for other community and leisure activities, and coincided with a growing trend of women working outside the home.
-The slogan “Say it with flowers” doubled florists’ business between 1912 and 1924.
- “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet” lured weight-conscious Americans to cigarettes and
away from candy.


]]> 2019-03-05 18:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067176 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067358 -The automobile changed the american landscape.

-The biggest effect of cars was faster transformation and paved roads.

-Houses changed and now came equipped with carports and driveways. The automobile also launched rapid consticions motel and shopping.

-The first automatic traffic light signals began blinking in Detroit in the early 1920's.
-The automobile helped out the isolated rural family who can now travel to the city for shopping and entertainment.

-It aloud both women and young people to become more independent.

-The automobile resulted in urban sprawl, which means that city spread in all directions.

- People who had a car valued it with care.

-In the 1920s 80% of all motor vehicles were in the U.S.  1 in 5 people.

-The airplane had also started as a mail carrying service. 

-After that it was a mode of transportation and the Pan American Airways made the 1st transatlantic passenger flight in 1927. ]]> 2019-03-05 18:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067358 sidrob1132 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067459 -After WW1, Americas public was left exhausted.
-The debate over the league of nations had divided America.
-After the war, returing soliders faced unemployment or took their old jobs away from women and minorities.
-After the war he cost of living (Clothes, food, etc)  had doubled.
-Farmers and factory workers suffered as wartime orders diminished.
-A wave of nationalism, or prejudice  against forgine born people swept the nation. as well as the belief in isolationism, a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.]]> 2019-03-05 18:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067459 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067620 *The wave of nativist "Keep America for Americans" became the prevailing attitude.

*Anti-immigrants became arriving from the Southern states since 1880s

*Many of the immigrants were willing to work for low pay,  after WWI they didn't need unskilled labor in the US.

*The Khlan Rises Again was over 4.9 million "white male persons, native-born gentile citizens." 

*The Khlan was also known as the KKK which was devoted to 100% Americanism.

*The KKK was against blacks and wanted to keep them in their place.

*The Quota System was the rise of immigration which decided to limit immigration from certain countries.

*The Quota System had the maximum number of people that could come into the US from foreign countries.

*The National origins quota system didn't apply for immigrants from the Western Hemisphere.

*In the 1920s over a million Canadians and 500,000 Mexicans crossed the nation's borders.]]> 2019-03-05 18:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067620 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067822 -another severe post war conflict formed between labor and management but at the time nothing could interfere with the war effort 

-however in 1919 saw more than 3,000 strikes which a lot of workers walked off the job because they did not want to give raises.

- workers in steel mills went on strike 300,000 workers walked off the job

-unionism was more successful in american coalfields in 1919, the united mine workers of america the new leader john L. Lewis called his union members on strike. attorney general palmer obtained a court order sending the miners back to work.


]]> 2019-03-05 18:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067822 hanand2214 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067928 - After WWI, problems surfaced relating to arms control, war debt, and the reconstruction of war-torn countries.
- Several major powers were invited by President Harding to attend the Washington Naval Conference.
- At the Conference Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes urged that no more Warships be built for ten years.
- Many countries signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as a national policy. However, the pact was futile, as it provided no means of enforcement. 
- In 1922, America adopted the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, which raised taxes on some U.S imports to 60%
- American investors loaned Germany 2.5 Billion so they would be able to pay back Britain & France, so they could get out of their debt.
- The U.S considered Britain and France financially irresponsible.]]> 2019-03-05 18:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338067928 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338068605 Harding favored a limited role for government in business affairs and in social reform. He had various people in the cabinet including the Ohio gang who later cause great embarrassment to the president and the rest of the government. The Harding administration soon revealed itś own corruption as members used their power to gain wealth. Charles R. Forbes was caught selling government supplies to private companies and Colonel Thomas W. Miller was caught taking bribes. The high point of the corruption was the Teapot Dome scandal. The government took oil rich lands for themselves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, Elk Hills, California, so they could be sold to private companies. Albert B. Fall the main proponent in the scandal received more than $400,000 in loans, bonds and cash. He was the first American to be convicted of a felony while having a position in the cabinet.]]> 2019-03-05 18:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338068605 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338069691 -The  fear of communism is about the politiacl system and the single party having a ruled by a dictatorship.
-A communist party  formed by u.s joined by seven-thousand workers from world war 1
-civil rights invading peoples homes in 1919 of palmer appointed by J.edgar hoover by hundreds of forign born radicals.
-Two shoemaker sacco and vanzetti were arrested for robbery and 🤬 a witness said the crime appeared in italians.
Most people thought vanzetti and sacco was miss traild and the goverment still let them died in the electric chair August 23,1927 before they were excusted of a statement.

]]> 2019-03-05 18:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338069691 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338071804 * The average factory worker was producing 50 percent more at the end of the decade than at its start.
* As productivity increased, businesses expanded. There were many mergers of companies that manufactured automobiles, steel, and electrical equipment  * Chain stores sprouted, selling groceries, 🤬, shoes, and clothes. Five-
and-dime stores like Woolworth’s also spread rapidly.
* Some economists and business owners worried that installment buying might get out of hand and that it was a sign of fundamental weaknesses
* The Coolidge era was built on paradox—the president stood for
economy and a frugal way of life, but he was favored by a public who didn't care about anything anymore. ]]> 2019-03-05 18:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338071804 https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338080917 2019-03-05 19:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/monica_wayman/i7a5f978uw3e/wish/338080917