Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roaring 20's
- USA's reaction
to WW1
- League of Nations
- Woodrow Wilson's idea
- Would act as world
parliament-Stop
another war
happening
- America didn't join
- Wilson wanted to
but American people
didn't want to join
- Americans didn't trust
League of Natiosn
- Upset about
large number
losses in WW1
- Felt they would be obliged
to fight if they joined
- Worried about costs
- Didn't want to help Britain and
France with colonies, went
against freedom and democracy
- Isolationism
- WW1
- US economy boomed
- US exported foods and
weapons to Europe
- Joined allies in 1917
- European countries bout
US goods with US loans
- European Imports
- US businesses worried
about cheap foreign goods
- Unemployment
high in Europe
- People willing to
work at low costs
- If people bought
cheap European goods
- Loss of jobs
- Lower profit for
US companies
- Less money
in taxes
- Tarrifs
- Harding (1921) brought
in Emergency Tariff Act-
May 1921
- Increases tariff
rates on farm goods
- Fordney-McCumber
Tariff- 1922
- Immigration Control
- Open doors before WW1
- WASP's want limit
on immigration
- Thought anarchists+communists
coming in
- Also Asian, Catholic+ Jewish
- 1921 Quota system put in
- Prosperity
- Low inflation, unemployment,
interest rates
- Cities made
more modern
- Consumer boom
- Ad's became big business
and encourged spending
- Income tax reduced so
people have more money
- Banks encouraged to give
loans on easier terms
- 1.5 mil Americans
bought shares in 1920's
- Motor industry created
lots of jobs
- Cars more affordable
- Assembly line introduced
- Poverty
- Maldistribution of wealth
- Richest 5% owned 33% of wealth
- Urban poverty due
to high numbers
- African Americans moved from
South to North due to predjudice
- Old industries did bad e.g coal
due to new industries like cars
- Overproduction
- Farm population shrunk
- Intolerance
- Prejudice against
new immigrants
- Red scare
- 1919 Gov set up
bombing around country
- Deported over 4000+
- Sacco + Vanzetti case
- Executed on basis on
very little evidence (1927)
- 1921 Quota system
- 1924- National Origins Act
- KKK popularity increased
after Birth of a Nation
- 1925- 4 mil members
- Used violence + intimidation
- Hated immigrants, Jews, Catholics, Blacks
(basically anyone who wasn't a WASP)
- Jim Crow laws in South
- Forced segregation
- 'Separate but equal'
- Prohibition
- MAMBA
- Movements: CTM, ASL
- Claimed alcohol led to violence,
immoral behaviour+ family problems
- Anti-German feeling
- Most breweries German, US just
came out of war with Germany
- Middle Class
- Blamed alcohol for
disorder within immigrants
- Business
- Blamed alcohol for
unreliability within workers
- Already existed
- In some states
- Organised Crime
- Hijackers; Stole alcohol
- Moonshine;
homemade liquor
- Bootleggers;
smuggled in alcohol
- Social Developments
- The Wall
Street Crash