1920SPRESENTATION BY LUCILLE NUAL

POST-WARUS dominant powerIsolationism

• Focused on domestic affairs

Anti-immigration• Red Scare• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial• Emergency

Immigration Act of 1921• National Origin Act of

1924Felix the Cat, All Puzzled

POLITICSPresidents

• Harding, Coolidge, (and Hoover) Laissez Faire

• Supply-Side/Trickle Down EconomicsScandal

• Teapot Dome

ECONOMYCredit and debtAutomobile boomIndustrial production

ECONOMY CONT.Overproduction with farmsAfrican AmericansDecline of labor unionsWall Street Crash

“MODERN ERA”Mass CultureRise of the celebrityNew inventions

• Public worksMove from rural to urban areas

Social change• flappers

“Lost Generation”•  F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot,

Ernest Hemmingway, e. e. cummings

Prohibition (1920-1933)• speakeasies• Organized crime

Harlem Renaissance

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.” ― Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

“THE ROARING TWENTIES”

BACKLASHScopes TrialImmigration QuotasKu Klux KlanCultural Civil Wars

• Evangelicals

TIMELINE1920-1923 – Teapot Dome ScandalApril 1920-August 1927 – Sacco-Vanzetti CaseAugust 18, 1920 – 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote ratifiedMay 19, 1921 – quota system established by Congress to limit immigrationMay 26, 1924 – National Origins Act of 1924 enactedJuly 1925 – John Scopes “Monkey” TrialMay 20, 1927 – Flight of Charles Lindbergh; 33 hours and 29 minutes, across the Atlantic OceanAugust 23, 1927 – execution of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo VanzettiOctober 6, 1927 – premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first “talkie”February 14, 1929 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, ordered by Al CaponeOctober 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday, stock market crash

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QUIZ1. How do the views of the “Lost Generation” of writers contrast

with the stereotype of the “Roaring” 1920s?

2. In what ways did World War I affect the 1920s economically and politically?

3. What groups of people did not see major social or economic growth during the 1920s?

4. How did Prohibition affect the culture of the 1920s?

5. What did the presidents of the 1920s have in common in regards to politics?