1. Warm Up  What were the Palmer Raids?

2. The Business of America WHAT MADE THE 1920S A DECADE OF PROSPERITY?

3. Return to Normalcy  Normalcy: return to what life was like before WWI  Presidents Harding and Coolidge lowered taxes so people had more money to spend

4. Businesses Grow  Fordney-McCumber Tariff: raised taxes on imports to keep business in the U.S.  By 1929, U.S. was producing 40% of the world’s manufactured goods.

5. Cars!  By 1929, 1/2 of American families owned a car.  Construction began on paved roads like Rt. 66  People moved away from their jobs, causing urban sprawl.

6. Radios!  By 1930, 1/3 of homes had a radio.  People listed to the news, comedy shows, and concerts.

7. Rise of Consumerism  Consumer culture: buying things makes us happy!  Access to electricity and advertisements create demand for new products.

8. Rise of Credit  Installment loans: produce a down payment, then pay the balance over several months.

10. Warm Up  What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?

11. Popular Culture in 1920s WHAT MADE THE 1920S A DECADE OF CHANGE?

12. What do you think your generation will be most remembered for?

13. New Freedom for Women  Young women rebelled against old customs by cutting hair short, wearing makeup and short skirts  Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first family planning clinic Flappers!

14. Prohibition  18 th amendment made alcohol illegal.  Speakeasies appear.  Al Capone made millions as a bootlegger.

15. Scopes Trial  Fundamentalists: Bible should be taken literally.  Tennessee makes teaching evolution illegal.  Teacher John Scopes is put on trial for breaking the law.

16. Rise of Jazz  American form of music that gained popularity among African Americans and in jazz clubs throughout the country Louis Armstrong: Dinah

17. Harlem Renaissance  Writers in Harlem explored what it meant to be black in the U.S.  Langston Hughes wrote of longing for equality.  Marcus Garvey wanted to firm a separate society for blacks.

18. Lost Generation  White writers were disgusted with the death of WWI  Wrote about the men who returned home from the war and moral emptiness of upper class

20. Warm Up  What do you think traditionalism means?  What do you think modernism means?  What are some things that you and your parents disagree about?  Examples: religion, clothing, music, etc.

21. Traditionalism vs. Modernism HOW DID TENSIONS DIVIDE AMERICANS IN THE 1920S?

22. Cities vs. Farms Cities  More job opportunities  Higher wages  Different cultures gathered together  Farmers: behind the times Farmers  Small, quiet communities  Less demand for crops after the war means lower crop prices  Thousands of farmers lost their jobs  Cities: materialistic and immoral

23. Young vs. Old Young  More educated  Followed fads like flagpole sitting  Flappers danced and wore revealing clothing  Began dating instead of courting Old  Young people are reckless and immoral!  Tried to pass legislation that outlawed short skirts and long kisses in movies

24. Prohibition Wets  Saw prohibition as government legislating morality  Millions refused to stop drinking Drys  Stopping drinking would bring about a moral society  Associated drinking with immigrants

25. Speakeasys  Some people brewed their own “bathtub gin”  Others bought “bootleg” alcohol from Canada  Bootlegging was a multibillion dollar industry  Al Capone drove a $30,000 Cadillac and wore a 11.5 carat diamond ring  21 st Amendment repealed prohibition in 1933

26. Scopes Monkey Trial  Tennessee made teaching evolution in school illegal  Evolutionists: humans evolved from apes  Creationists: humans were created by God as outlined in the Bible  Science teacher John Scopes defied the law and was put on trial  Jury took 10 minutes to find Scopes guilty