THE ROARING TWENTIES: A COMBINATION OF CHAPTERS 12 AND 13

STANDARDS COVERED CE Analyze the domestic impact of WWI on civil liberties.

AMERICAN STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES: SECTION ONE POSTWAR TRENDS  Soldiers face job loss or obtain old jobs back  Farmers and factory workers overproduced goods  Standard of living costs rise  Nativism*  Isolationism*

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES FEAR OF COMMUNISM  A few principles of communism*  Vladimir Lennon and the Soviet Union  A communist party forms in the U.S.  causes the “Red Scare”  J. Edgar Hoover and Mitchell Palmer start to hunt down communists, socialists, and anarchists*  Negative effects of the Palmer Raids lead to silencesilence

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES Sacco and Vanzetti* Many argued that they were mistreated because they were immigrants with radical beliefs LIMITING IMMIGRATION “Keep America for Americans”—anti- immigrant feelings arise KKK was devoted to being “100 percent American”

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES KKK also targeted other groups* Immigrant population grows, so govt. creates the quota system*

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY: SECTION TWO  Warren G. Harding* HARDING STRUGGLES FOR PEACE  1921—he organizes a naval conference with the U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy  Charles Evan Hughes*  France and Great Britain have to pay 10 mill. to U.S.

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY  Fordney McCumber Tariff*  France and Great Britain turn to Germany—U.S. uses the Dawes Plan to repay itself SCANDAL HITS HARDING’S ADMINISTRATION  Harding admitted to not knowing how to solve issues  Harding’s Ohio Gang*

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY Teapot Dome Scandal and Albert B. Fall* Fall receives 400,000 in loans, bonds, and cash Found guilty of bribery* Death of Harding in office; Calvin Coolidge next pres.

STANDARDS COVERED CE Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes and tensions in the Roaring Twenties including the struggle between “traditional” and “modern” America.

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA:SECTION THREE AMERICAN INDUSTRIES FLOURISH  Calvin Coolidge*  Keep government involvement to a minimum to allow business growth  The creation of the car—vacations, travel to get away, dates, and jobs  Urban sprawl*

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA  Air mail delivered with planes  Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earheart*  Passenger flights happen with Pan Am AMERICA’S STANDARD OF LIVING SOARS  We own 40 percent of the world’s wealth; $522 to $705 average income  Americans start spending

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA The widespread use of electricity makes allowances for new appliances: fridges, toasters, stoves, washing machines, sewing machines, vacuums, etc. Lives of housewives easier Advertisers higher psychologists*

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA A SUPERFICIAL PROSPERITY  Productivity increases, businesses expanded  The income gap between workers and managers expand  Farmers producing more with new machinery; prices of food go down  Installment buying*  Problems with it?

STANDARDS COVERED CE Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes and tensions in the Roaring Twenties including the struggle between “traditional” and “modern” America.

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE: SECTION ONE PROHIBITION  Prohibition*  Reasons why people wanted prohibition*  1,500 poorly paid police officers and federal agents deal with the issue

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE  Speakeasies*  Bootlegging*  Capone makes 60 million a year—killed off his competition  Prohibition Video Prohibition Video

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE SCIENCE AND RELIGION CLASH Fundamentalism* Rejected the theory of evolution—instead, believe in the story of creation ACLU found a teacher to test a Tennessee state law on evolution

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE  Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan*  Scopes Trial*  Jennings Bryan made to look like a fool; Scopes found guilty; fined $100