1. Post WWI – The Twenties

2. 1920’s, Roaring ’20s, The Jazz Age
A boom in the “American economy, the change in political landscape with Harding & Coolidge, the cultural and social divisions that arose, the new trends in popular culture and the Harlem Renaissance

3. Economy The impact of Henry Ford The automobile The assembly line
Mass production – scientific management
Innovation
Stimulate

4. How is the increase in industry affecting the economy?

5. Explain the effects on society’s wage earners.

6. Explain the change in income for farmers.

7. Analyze the global effects on the nation.

8. Continued Growth Consumer revolution Installment buying Bull Market
Buying on Margin

9. Society
Changing attitudes towards, women, African Americans and immigrants cause social tensions.

11. The Rise of Organized Crime
18th Amendment – Volstead Act
Bootleggers
Speakeasies – secret bars
Police powers – government’s control over people & property in the interest of public safety
1933 – 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition

12. Nativism
A feeling of the need to protect the United States against immigrants
Belief that anyone not born in the country was either an anarchist (someone that opposes all forms of government) or inferior to U.S. citizens

13. Restricting Immigration
Emergency Quota Act limited immigration
National Origins Act limited immigration quotas even further

14. Social Tensions
Rise of KKK
NAACP
Jewish Anti-Defamation League

15. Society – Traditionalism vs. Modernism
Evolution vs.
The belief that human beings developed from lower forms of life over time (Charles Darwin)
Creationism
The belief that God created the world as described in the Bible

16. Scopes Trial
See page 673.

17. Society continued Changing role of women – flappers Firsts
1920 – state judge & automotive engineer
1922 – U.S. Senator
Governor
1926 – Swim English Channel
1927 – Direct talking movie & earn federal pilot’s license

19. Mass (Popular) Culture
Art & Literature – Bohemian-different and unconventional,
Leisure Activities
Sports – Major League sports
Movies – Saturday Nights
Radio – from less than 1 million in 1922 to over 13 mil. In 1930
Music – The Charleston

20. The Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration – movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North
Called the Harlem Renaissance because many settled in this area of New York City

21. Writers Claude McKay Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston
Immigrant from Jamaica
Langston Hughes
Wrote of the difficulties of African American life
Zora Neale Hurston
Used females as leads in her stories

22. Music Jazz – world wide populartity Blues Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Cotton Club
Blues
Bessie Smith
Ma Rainey

24. Black Nationalism Marcus Garvey
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association to promote black pride and unity
Created a plan to create a settlement of African Americans in Liberia

25. Politics – Nationwide Andrew Mellon – Secretary of the Treasury
Herbert Hoover – Secretary of Commerce
President Harding’s Scandals
The Ohio Gang
Teapot Dome

26. Politics – Nationwide Harding’s Death Calvin Coolidge
Also supported business
Disagreed with Progressives

27. Politics
Movement to getting African Americans to vote and show their power
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Protested against lynching
Lobbied against racist officials

28. Politics - Worldwide The Washington Naval Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan