THE JAZZ AGE TIME OF TURMOIL
The Red Scare
Rise of racial tensions KU KLUX KLAN TARGETING IMMIGRANTS & BLACKS
REPUBLICANS IN GOVERNMENT THE JAZZ AGE REPUBLICANS IN GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT WARREN G. HARDING
TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
Republicans in the 1920s Favored De-Regulation Lowered taxes Raised tariffs Isolationism
THE JAZZ AGE A BOOMING ECONOMY
Economic Growth Due to technology, electricity, and new inventions Products are now mass produced and efficiency is increased
Henry Ford Assembly line and productivity Boom in automobile industry in 1920s
THE JAZZ AGE THE ROARING TWENTIES
Flappers
Mass media in the 1920s Newspapers, magazines, tabloids, advertisements
MOVIES
First “talkie” in 1927
JAZZ MUSIC
…MADE POPULAR BECAUSE OF THE RADIO
THE JAZZ AGE CLASHING CULTURES
Conservatism vs. Liberalism
THE PROBLEM OF ALCOHOL
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Prohibition—18th Amendment
Al “Scar face” Capone
21st Amendment—18th Repealed
The Prohibition was a social experiment to see if society really would get better if alcohol was outlawed…it backfired. This represented the culture clash of Conservatism and Liberalism… Old Victorian culture vs. New liberal culture
RELIGION VS. SCIENCE
THE SCOPES TRIAL Teaching evolution becomes illegal John Scopes taught it anyway so that a court could test its legality
SCOPES LOST HIS CASE, BUT… Scopes’ lawyer, Clarence Darrow, filed an appeal with the Tennessee Supreme Court How was Darrow able to win Scopes’ case? Dealt a blow to fundamentalism because now evolution is taught instead of creationism
Once again, to recap, the Scopes trial represented the culture clash between Religion and Science… Creationism vs. Evolution
SCIENCE AND EVOLUTION ENDED UP WINNING