1920S PRESENTATION BY LUCILLE NUAL

POST-WAR US dominant power Isolationism Focused on domestic affairs Anti-immigration Red Scare Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 National Origin Act of 1924 Felix the Cat, All Puzzled

POLITICS Presidents Harding, Coolidge, (and Hoover) Laissez Faire Supply-Side/Trickle Down Economics Scandal Teapot Dome

ECONOMY Credit and debt Automobile boom Industrial production

ECONOMY CONT. Overproduction with farms African Americans Decline of labor unions Wall Street Crash

“MODERN ERA” Mass Culture Rise of the celebrity New inventions Public works Move from rural to urban areas

Social change flappers “Lost Generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemmingway, e. e. cummings Prohibition ( ) 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”

BACKLASH Scopes Trial Immigration Quotas Ku Klux Klan Cultural Civil Wars Evangelicals

TIMELINE – Teapot Dome Scandal April 1920-August 1927 – Sacco-Vanzetti Case August 18, 1920 – 19 th Amendment granting women the right to vote ratified May 19, 1921 – quota system established by Congress to limit immigration May 26, 1924 – National Origins Act of 1924 enacted July 1925 – John Scopes “Monkey” Trial May 20, 1927 – Flight of Charles Lindbergh; 33 hours and 29 minutes, across the Atlantic Ocean August 23, 1927 – execution of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti October 6, 1927 – premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first “talkie” February 14, 1929 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, ordered by Al Capone October 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday, stock market crash

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QUIZ 1.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?