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Return to Normalcy (1920s)
Vocabulary:
installment plan making payments on credit
bull market rising stock market
bear market falling stock market
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Election of 1920
Wilson called for referendum on League of
Nations
Republican Warren G. Harding promises a
return to normalcy
Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox
Return to Normalcy
Hardings appoints Andrew Mellon as
Secretary of Treasury: pro-business,
reduces anti-trust actions, reduces taxes
on rich
Wall Street bull market through most of
1920s
Consumerism
Installment-plan buying: buying on credit
Expansion of electrical power
Growing popularity of professional sports
Automobiles
Fords assembly line makes automobiles
affordable for workers
By 1929, Americans own 26 million cars
New industries: rubber tires, paved roads
Airplanes
1903: Wright brothers first flight
By 1920s: establishment of air mail routes
1927: Charles Lucky Lindy Lindbergh
completes first transatlantic solo flight
Radio
1920: first commercial radio broadcast
By mid-1920s, radio had become an
important part of American culture & home
life
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