Roaring 20s Terms

Allowed greater mobility to people in 1920s

• Airplane

• Automobile

• Segway

• Skateboard

Electricity, electrical appliances, radio, motion pictures, vacuum cleaners

• Innovations and New Industry

• Resource depletion

• Steam operated

• Gilded Age

In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product.

• Assembly Line

• Automated System

• Automatic surplus

• Artificial Intelligence

Sought 'return to normalcy' after WWI

• Warren Harding

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

leasing of oil-rich government lands in Wyoming by a cabinet member in exchange for personal bribes.

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Pettycoat Affair

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Watergate Scandal

believed in 'rugged individualism' predicted an end to poverty then oversaw the beginning of the Great Depression

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren Harding

banned alcoholic drinks. Failed social experiment repealed by the 21st.

• 18th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

1925, Pitted traditional views vs. Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

• Scope's Monkey Trial

• US vs. Eugene V. Debs

• Sweatt vs. Painter

• Hernandez vs. Texas

led to immigration acts of 1921, 1924, 1929. Dislike of foreigners because of job competition or culture.

• nativism

• totalitarianism

• communism

• democracy

amendment granted women the right to vote.

• 18th

• 19th

• 24th

• 27th