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Red Scare
A group or or government promoted a fear or communism that spread widely through the population.This was a Negative affect because it divided the U.S . It also brought back problems of Europe. -
Roaring Twenties
Period of property and new cultural values. This event is positive because it was dramatic social and political change.The economic wealth doubled. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford developed the assembly line to speed up motor production. Ford's River Rouge plant in Detroit, Michigan became the largest factory in the world. A new Model T Ford cost less than $300 in the mid-1920s. -
Prohibiton
A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Eighteenth Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol -
Return to Normalcy
A return to the way of life before World War 1.This was a positive effect because wages, profits and productivity all made substantial gains during the 1920's -
Frances Willard
An American Educator ,emperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence played a big part in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution -
Warren Harding
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who served as president from 1921 to 1923. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Immigration Acts
a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to the United States. -
Calvin Coolidge
Republican candidate, was elected to a full term. Coolidge had been vice-president under Warren G. Harding and became president in 1923 when Harding died during his term in office. -
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, A law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Rugged Individualism
As Hoover called it, 'Rugged Individualism' Spurred progress and was the foundation of America's "unparalleled greatness." Hoover felt that too much government interference in business would undermine the nation's prosperity by increasing corruption. -
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States.Hoover optimistically predicted the end of poverty in America if he were elected. -
Twenty First Amendment
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was the Prohibition on alcohol nationwide.