The Roaring Twenties 1920-29 Jazz Age Flashcards by Sophia ben | Brainscape

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Gov

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President Harding :
Raised tariffs
Used surplus : reduce federal debt

Secretary of commerce : Hoover
-regulate business practices

X succeed

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Period

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Period of prosperity:

automobile industry = tourism
small cities : boom in construction = building of officers, factories

Countryside : electric power industry
-electricity and telephones

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Period

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// of instability and hardship for citizens

Overproduction: factories and farms

Financial speculation

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October 1929 : WALL STREET STOCK MARKET CRASH

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Great Depression

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