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The 1920’sTimeline
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1919 – The Year of the Strike
• As post-war inflation ripped across America, there were more then 3,600 strikes in one year.
• Some Big Strikes:
~ Seattle General Strike
~Boston Police Strike
~U.S. Steel Strike
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The Red Scare• Fear of Communism
spreading in America.• Atty. General A.
Mitchell Palmer and the Palmer Raids.
• Nearly 600 deported.• Americans spying on
Americans.• Rise of Nativism.
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1920• Warren G. Harding,
from Ohio, is elected the 29th President of the United States.
• This election was the first election in which women could vote.
• The results broadcasted on the radio.
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“Normalcy” and The Republican FormulaTo achieve a “return to
normalcy” Harding and Sec. Mellon advanced the Republican Formula for America, it is based on supply-side economics.
~ Business tax cuts~ High Protective Tariffs~Balanced Budgets~Reduce the debt~Reduce government
spending
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The Ohio Gang• The group of
President Harding’s cabinet officials, and poker buddies, who gained personal profit by cheating the U.S. gov’t. Such scandals included:
~ Veteran’s Affairs~ Teapot Dome
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1923• Calvin Coolidge,
from Massachusetts, becomes the 30th President of the Unites States when Harding died of a heart attack. He will win his own term in 1924.
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New Industries• New Business
Practices:
~ Mass Production
~ Assembly Line
~ Welfare Capitalism
~Middle Managers• New Industries:
~ Automobile (Ford)
~ Radio (CBS)
~ Airline (Air mail service)
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The Consumer Society• With the ease of credit
and the new wave of mass advertising American started buying a wide rage of new products, including: washing machines, refrigerators, radios, cars, pre-made clothing, make-up, vacuum cleaners, extra furniture, etc…
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Foreign Policy (Isolationism)• The Dawes Plan:
economic aid to German to help them pay back GB, and Fr.
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact: outlawed war.
• Washington Naval Conference: limited the number of Naval vessels for, U.S., GB, Fr, Italy, Portugal, China & Japan.
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Nativism and Racism • Starting with the Red Scare
American started distrusting all foreigners this led to new Immigration Laws & the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti.
• The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) returned expanding their hatered toward: Blacks, Foreigners, Catholics, Jews, Communists, etc…
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Red Summer and Black Nationalism
• The summer of 1919 saw riots and violence is black neighbors in many major American cities.
• Marcus Garvey started promoting “Black Nationalism” and his “Back to Africa” movement.
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Fundamentalism• Popular evangelical
preachers, such as Billy Sunday, and the Scopes Monkey Trial, created a debate between and evolution.
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Prohibition• With the 18th Amendment
(Volstead Act) alcohol became illegal in The United States. This caused a rise in law breaking, organized crime (Al Capone), smuggling, opening of speakeasies, and created “The Untouchables”. This small group of officers were in charge of enforcing these laws.
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Flappers• These were the young
women of the decade who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, wore make-up, smoke, drank, used vernancular, and worked outside of the home – sometimes used as the image of the 1920s.
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The Jazz Age• A new form of music
called Jazz was created in America. The most famous club was the Cotton Club in Harlem. Such artists included:
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
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The Harlem Renaissance• Focus on pride, art,
literature, music, sense of community, and political organization with the Black neighborhood. Such artist/poet/writers included: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, and Zora Hurston.
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The Lost Generation• Group of writers,
including: T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, criticized the decade because of the focus on materialism and the seeming lose of values. Many of them moved to other countries out of protest.
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Sports, Movies, & Hero Worship
• Sport Stars: Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey.
• Movie Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford.
• Aviation Heroes: Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart.
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Leisure Time and Lifestyles