1. The Roaring Twenties

2. Post War Life Gov’t cancelled war production contracts
Returning soldiers needed jobs
Women & Minorities lost wartime jobs
Unemployment rose
Result – inflation by 1920
goods cost 2x’s more than 1918

3. Post War Life cont.. Trends in America:
1. Renewed isolationism (Return to Normalcy)
2. Resurgence of Nativism
3. Political conservatism (move away
from progressive reforms)

4. Teapot Dome Scandal
Oil rich government land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming sold to companies

5. Economy in the 1920’s Manufacturing doubled - electrical appliances
Advertising
- surplus of goods
to be sold
- targeted women
Installment Plan
- credit

6. Henry Ford’s
Assembly line

8. Route 66 est. 1926 - One of the original U.S. highways
- Main Street of America
- major path of the migrants who
went during the Dust Bowl

9. Technology and Industry
Airplanes
- introduced as transportation
- airmail route common
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh

10. Technology and Industry
Consumer appliances
- Dishwasher, toasters, lawn mowers
- Mass produced in order to keep workers
Electricity and plumbing
- More standard in homes
In-Sink Dishwashers 1927
Toaster

11. Technology and Industry
Radio
- regular broadcast became standard
- technology brought the world into ones
living room

12. Technology and Industry
Movies
- became a big leisure activity
- Jazz Singer first movie with audio sound
* called a talkie
* first dialogue

13. Technology and Industry
Vitamins and medicine
- Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

14. Social/Societal Scopes Trial - John Scopes (science teacher)
- ACLU (protects rights)
- First debate over evolution and the Bible
- Results: found guilty

15. Social/Societal Rights: Civil Rights Groups ACLU NAACP
- Am. Civil Liberties Union
- protect indiv. rights
NAACP
- legal fights / laws
UNIA
- Universal Negro
Improvement Assoc.
- Marcus Garvey
- fight discrimination
thru social means

16. Social/Societal Women: more received college education late 1920
- more women in public office
Flappers
- non traditional
- rebellious youth
- smoking, drinking in public
- flashy non fitting clothes

18. Social/Societal The Blues and Jazz Famous musicians you should know
Developed in New Orleans
Jazz would eventually move to the north as part of the great migration
Cities like New York and Chicago were jazz hot spots.
Famous musicians you should know
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington

19. Social/Societal
Professional sports became mass entertainment due to the radio.
This is the era of
Babe Ruth
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson
Ty Cobb
Lou Gehrig

20. The Harlem Renaissance
Cultural movement based in Harlem, NY
Music, Literature, and the arts flourished.
People to Know:
Earnest Hemmingway

21. Social/Societal Prohibition: an era supposedly free of alcohol
18th Amendment made it law
Shifted legal business to organized crime

23. Social/Societal Speakeasies underground (hidden) saloons
needed a card or password to enter
mix of middle and upper class
Membership Cards

24. Social/Societal Organized Crime:
increased due to prohibition in big cities
gangsters controlled city liquor business
- killing competition
hundreds of bloody gang killings
bribed law officials & business leaders

25. St. Valentines Day Massacre

26. 1920’s Fears Communism: Red Scare: Palmer Raids
Communist Bolshevik overthrew the Czar gov’t in Russia
Communist called for a worldwide revolt
Red Scare:
70,000 radicals in U.S. Communist party (less than 1%)
Talk of communism and revolts caused fear
Fear of “red” taking over U.S.
Palmer Raids
Justice Dept. set up a special interest group to hunt down communist, socialist and anarchists
Later became the FBI

27. Sacco and Vanzetti Italian immigrants & anarchist
blamed for a murder that took place in Mass.
witnesses describe Italian men
no real evidence judge made prejudice remarks
found guilty and sentenced to death
(died in electric chair in 1927)

29. Minorities:
- KKK reborn in GA
- Opposed blacks, immigrants, Catholics,
and Jews
- influenced politics and elections in U.S.