7.2: The 1920s in the World
& the United States
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The 1920s
1920s consumerism led to luxury living:
New appliances like refrigerators, washing
machines, & vacuums
Glenwood
Stove Ad
Flappers & the Harlem Renaissance
The 1920s
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Meanwhile…in Europe
Totalitarianism: Fascism & Communism
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Henry Ford’s most noteworthy
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Invention of
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What invention in the 1910's became even more
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Political parties
compete actively in
national elections.
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a religious revival that
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projects that were part of
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the need for skilled
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in the boom following the first
World War
the effects of a new law
limiting immigration to the
United States
the desire of reformers to
provide services for new
immigrants
the eagerness of the
government to settle
immigrants further inland
rather than in Eastern cities
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