Ch 20,21 The Roaring Twenties
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The Roaring Twenties
Chapters 20, 21
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1920s Life for Most Americans
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Three Trends1. Renewed isolationism2. Resurgence of nativism3. Political conservatism
weak govt (not like during Progressive Era)
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President W.G. Harding
Encouraged a return to “normalcy” Kellogg-Briand Pact: signed to say war is not
an instrument of national policy Immigration limits
Quota system: there is a maximum # of people who can enter the U.S. from any one foreign country (passed ’21, amended ’24)
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President W.G. Harding
Government Scandals Teapot Dome Scandal:
Oil lands set aside in Wyoming during conservation era for navy
Albert Fall (govt official) leased lands to oil companies for a profit
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Communism
Was a threat to normalcy
Bolshevik Revolution (1917): Bolshevik party takes control of Russia Advocated the overthrow of capitalism,
free enterprise, and private property
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Communism
“red scare”: fear of communism in the U.S.
Palmer Raids: hunt down and detain suspected anarchists and communists
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Business in America
Standard of living went through the roof
Automobiles
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PARTICIPATION
What other things will be invented/created in order for the automobile industry to continue?
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Business in America
Automobiles Paved roads, garages, gas stations,
motels, traffic lights Urban sprawl: cities spread out because
workers could live miles from their jobs
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Business in America
Airplane Travel (p. 630)
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Business in America
Electrical conveniences (p. 631)
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Business in America
Avg. Income
Modern advertising Psychologists hired to
help appeal to buyers (page 631)
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Business in America
Buying on credit Installment plan: buy goods over a
period of time with interest layaway
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1920s City Life
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City Life
Cities seen as more lenient than small towns Allow gambling, alcohol, casual dating Fast-paced lifestyle, competition
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City Life
Prohibition Era 18th Amendment passed in 1920
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City Life
People resisted Prohib. b/c they wanted to enjoy life after WWI Speakeasies: hidden saloons where
alcohol was illegally sold
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City Life
Bootleggers: smuggled in alcohol from countries where it was legal
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City Life
Prohibition Era Growth of organized crime
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City Life
18th Amendment repealed in 1933
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Mass Media Shapes Mass Culture
Newspapers, magazines, radio Radio was the most powerful form of
communication in the 20s
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Mass Media Shapes Mass Culture
Movies Charlie Chaplin: comic actor
Rudolph Valentino: romantic leading man
Al Jolson: starred in the first major film with sound, The Jazz Singer
Mickey Mouse
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Mass Media Shapes Mass Culture
Other Entertainment Celebrities Babe Ruth: hit a record 60 home runs
for the NY Yankees Charles Lindbergh: made the first
nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
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Religion vs. Science
Fundamentalism: Protestant movement grounded in the literal interpretation of the Bible
Initiated the evolution vs. creation debate
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Religion vs. Science
The Scopes Trial: Is it okay to make a law forbidding
schools to teach evolution? John Scopes, biology teacher, arrested for
teaching evolution Scopes found guilty, law stayed on the
books
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Women in the Twenties
Flappers: emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
Women were more assertive Casual dating Began working as typesetters and
secretaries
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Harlem Renaissance
“Great Migration” Between 1910 and 1920 African
Americans moved in large numbers to northern cities
Harlem Renaissance: literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture
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Harlem Renaissance
Poet, Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
“Scat”/jazz became widely popular with all Americans
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Political Cartoons
Controversies of the 1920shttp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us33.cfm