1. DO NOW Define superficial. Define prosperity.
What do you think superficial prosperity mean?

2. Postwar America
1920s – 1930s

3. America and the World America expanding its influence around the world
Spanish American War
Protectorates – Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
Panama Canal
WWI
Assisted allies financially and with weapons
Loans
Everyone got involved in war effort
When war was over everyone wanted to go back to a time of “normalcy”

4. Postwar America Politics
Republican led
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Conservative = little gov’t involvement in economy, focus on more traditional social values
Decrease military
Washington Naval Conference and Kellogg- Briand Pact
Tariffs and Loan repayment
Fordney-McCumber Tariff – protect US business and make more $$
Dawes Plan – help Germany pay back loans by loaning them money

5. Postwar America Economics
Factory work increases
Consumer goods
Automobile, new electrical appliances
Farmers over produced during WWI  leads to debt
Rising Consumerism
Advertising
Credit and installment plans
Stock Market in constant flux
Superficial prosperity

6. Postwar America Society
Quota Act
First Red Scare
Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
Urban vs. rural
Urban – culturally diverse, creation of strong minority communities (Harlem), flappers, traditional morals and values being challenged
Rural – more traditional morals, values, and societal roles (gender and race), Scopes Trial, religious revival
Prohibition (18th amendment) and bootleggers (Al Capone)
Modernism – reinvent art and literature
Women’s Suffrage – 19th amendment
African American civil rights – Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, NAACP, Marcus Garvey, Moorish Science Temple

8. Activity
Foreshadow (infer) what problems may arise in America – politically, economically, socially