1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
Farmers had expanded production rapidly during World War I. Now that the war is over, competition from recovered foreign producers lowers potential returns while costs remain fixed. The decade of the 1920s is difficult for farmers.
1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
President Warren Harding takes office in 1921 choosing cabinet members that prove to have a long political history; Herbert Hoover and Charles Evan Hughes. President Harding is linked to a political scandal known as the Teapot Dome Scandal where publ..
1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
The secular culture that emerges in the 1920s coexists with an older, more provincial sect that views this "new era" as a threat to their way of life. Prohibition fails, the Ku Klux Klan expands their targets to not only African Americans, but newly ..
1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
Republicans choose Herbert Hoover as their Presidential candidate in 1928. Democrats nominate New York Governor Al Smith. While Smith is popular with the metropolitan areas in the north, he has little in common with the farmers in the Midwest or Sout..
1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
The employment structure in the new mass production industries reveals a clear demarcation between white- and blue-collar workers. There is less autonomy but more prosperity for white-collar workers. The American Federation of Labor is the only exist..
1920s...Beyond the Glitte..
The United States continues to grow in the 1920s. More and more homes are being electrified in the 1920s, movies now have sound, the first radio network is formed. The literary achievements of the 1920s, many critics believe, are unparalleled in Amer..