1. This Day in History
Jan 14th, Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted of killing their shoe company's paymaster

2. Politics and Prosperity of the 1920’s
Chap 20/21/22
Unit 7

3. Harding “Return to Normalcy” Laissez-faire “hands off” of business.
I. Harding to Coolidge
Harding “Return to Normalcy”
Laissez-faire “hands off” of business.
Washington Naval Conference- limit size of Navies.
B. Coolidge
Dawes Plan sets up a payment plan for war debts. (reparations)
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge

4. II. Social Changes
Economy
Mass production.
Easy Credit

5. 3. Advertising

6. 4. Assembly line (Henry Ford “Model T”)

7. B. Cultural Challenges 1. 1919, 18th Amendment- bans sale of Alcohol
B. Cultural Challenges , 18th Amendment- bans sale of Alcohol. (Helped by Volstead Act) 2. Organized Crime/Bootlegging/ “Speak Easy”- Al Capone

8. 3. 1919-1920 “Red Scare”- fear sparks violence, Palmer Raids.
Sacco and Vanzetti executed.

9. John Scopes – guilty fined $100.
, Scopes “Monkey Trial” Fundamentalist, literal bible interpretation (Clarence Darrow) vs. Modernist (William Jennings Bryan).

10. C. Women’s Roles change
1. “Flappers” –short hair, short skirts, and a change in moral values
, 19th Amendment- Woman’s Suffrage

11. 1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses Atlantic
D. Entertainment
Jim Thorpe
Charlie Chaplin
1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses Atlantic
1927 Babe Ruth
hits 60 home runs.
Jack Dempsey
1925 Lon Chaney stars in Phantom of the Opera

12. 1927 The Jazz Singer is the First Talking Film.

13. 1927 Winnie the Pooh 1928 Steamboat Willie.

14. IV. Jazz Age
A. Harlem Renaissance
Poetry, Literature, Jazz
2. “Duke Ellington- “it don’t mean a thing” and Louie Armstrong

15. The Depression/ The Crash
Chap 21

16. Crop prices fall/loans going unpaid. uneven distribution of wealth
I. Danger signs
A. Causes of Crash
Crop prices fall/loans going unpaid.
uneven distribution of wealth
Easy credit- too many goods, not enough money.
4. Unregulated business
Herbert Hoover

17. II. Stock Market Crash A. Signs come true 1
II. Stock Market Crash A. Signs come true 1. October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday, “The Crash” 2. People get money out of banks.(Bank fail)

18. B. Poverty Spreads
1. “Hoovervilles” shantytowns by homeless
2. Dustbowl hits great plains.

19. III. Hoover’s Approach
A. Voluntary Action
B. Created Jobs

20. C. Bonus Army
In 1932, World War I Veterans march on Washington demanding pensions. General Douglas MacArthur’s uses force to remove them.

21. Chap 22
New Deal

22. A. FDR’s 1st 100 days priorities: “NEW DEAL” 1. “JOBS”
1932 Election
A. FDR’s 1st 100 days priorities: “NEW DEAL”
1. “JOBS”
2. Protect savings
B. Cabinet Helps
1. 1st women- Francis Perkins
2.“Black Cabinet”- unofficial advisers.
1932 Liberal Democrat FDR Wins

23. C. First 100 Days (15 bills Passed)
“Bank Holiday”-Emergency Banking Act.(close banks inspect funds)
FDIC- insures bank deposits up to 5000.
FDR
Fireside Chats

24. D. Creating jobs
CCC jobs for years old.
TVA- creates power plants, replants trees, creates jobs
John Maynard Keyes- “Pump Priming”, deficit spending put money back into consumers hands.

25. II. Second New Deal (1935)
A. welfare programs
1935 Social Security
1935 Wagner Act- allows collective bargaining
1938 Fair Labor Act- 44 hr week. no child labor and Controversial issue “minimum wage.”

26. III. New Deals Achievements
A. Literature
Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind, 1936)
Theodor Geisel. (To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street,1937).
John Stienbeck (Grapes of Wrath, 1939)

27. B. Radio and Movies
1938, Superman debuts
1939, Wizard of Oz – 1st Color Film.

28. May 24, 1935 Reds vs Phillies first night baseball game
1937 Golden Gate Bridge, created by WPA funding

29. IV. Great Depression (the results)
Lasts from 1929 till 1941.
1. 25% Unemployed
2. Nearly one million farms lost.
banks/20,000 companies go bankrupt
4. People expect the President to solve U.S. problems. (creates a welfare state)

30. This Day in History
Jan 11th, 1935Amelia Earhart 1st to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, California