Chapter 30: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"

Key Ideas

 * the "red scare"
 * xenophobia
 * legislation restricting immigration
 * advances in technology and manufacturing
 * scientific modernism
 * "modern" values/ideas
 * Fundamentalist Christianity
 * Harlem Renaissance

Synopsis
The 1920s was characterized by isolationism and the American public's widespread xenophobia. The country tightened its immigration laws, with the support of the people. Many advances in technology and manufacturing were also made, with the advent of widespread usage of the personal automobile