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5 characteristics
1. Entertainment/Escape - movies, radio(soaps and Jazz), automobiles, airplane, professional sports,
dancing, celebrities
2. Prosperity - Business had less government intervention, more working people, business were
prosperous as were the people (or so it seemed), Corporations!!!!, more consumers therefore
more random useless products made
3. New roles - gender roles (women), housewife, flapper, “New Negro,”
4. Great Depression- not only caused by the stock market crash, but also bank failures,
overproduction, natural disasters, uneven wealth distribution, etc. Mellon’s program created an
illusion that the American economy was booming right before the bust.
5. Freedom - women were able to have office jobs (clerks and secretaries only though), WWI over
many people happy, Harlem Renaissance (embrace race, artistic), Businesses free from
government,
3 conflicts
1. Political
a. Foreign policy (Mellon Program, Hoover Policies),
b. Great Migration (many blacks and whites in job competition, more blacks in cities
causing racial tensions),
c. scandals (Harding brining corrupt friends into office),
d. consumption/prohibition (leads to creation of 18th amendment)
2. Economic
a. stock market crash,
b. farmers overproduction (loss of money),
c. Business growth - corporation, oligopolies
3. Evolution vs Creationism
a. The Monkey Trial (legal case where the teacher, John Scopes, explained evolution in his
biology class. Caused debates about separation of church and state, exceptions within the
first amendment, and whether or not creationism or darwinism should be taught in
school)