Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0120 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Twenties: Prosperity, Backlash, New Voices
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The idea
Ford's moving assembly line made the Model T affordable; radio, movies, advertising and credit followed. Cities embraced the new; rural traditionalists resisted, as the Scopes trial of nineteen twenty-five and the Second Klan showed.
In practice
The Harlem Renaissance; Garvey and Du Bois answering racism with different campaigns.
Where people slip
Prohibition fed organized crime. Harding's scandals, Coolidge and Hoover carried Republican ascendancy to the crash.
Your place on the trail
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