1. The Roaring Twenties
AP US History

2. Decade of Cultural Conflicts
Context:
Continuing widespread immigration, increasing industrialization, development of new technology, and mass urbanization (1920 was the first year more people lived in cities)
Progressive reform began in the late 1800s and continued until World War I; unclear if it would continue after the war (it didn’t)
Imperialism in the late 1800s and early 1900s evolved into US activity in World War I; US rejected global involvement with the failure to ratify Treaty of Versailles
Liberal: open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values
Conservative: holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion
Both parties had liberals and conservatives until relatively recently.

3. 1920s Cultural Conflicts Race Relations:
Great Migration: causes and results
City Segregation (redlining by 1930s)
Red Summer (SUS Video)
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
New KKK

4. 1920s Cultural Conflicts New Women’s Roles: Flappers Political Power
Limits
“Pink Collar” Jobs

5. 1920s Cultural Conflicts Nativism: New KKK Red Scare
Labor Conflict (1919 – Era of Great Strikes)
A. Mitchel Palmer
Immigration Restrictions
1921 – 3% of existing immigrant group based on 1910 Census
1924 – 2 % of existing immigrant group based on 1890 Census
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

6. 1920s Cultural Conflicts Society: Scopes Monkey Trial Prohibition
Clarence Darrow (Scopes) v. William Jennings Bryan (School)
Prohibition
Speakeasies
Organized Crime
Repeal (1933)

7. Practice Qs: Write a Thesis
Evaluate changes in the status of women
Evaluate differences in the response to immigration in the 1880s/1890s to the response to immigration in the 1920s.

8. 1920s Mass Culture “Pop” Culture: Music Radio Movies Celebrity Sports
“Lost Generation”
Writers critical of era

9. 1920s Mass Consumption Stuff Economy: Cars (SUS) – Ford & Taylor
Related Industries
Advertising
Appliances
Credit

10. The Republican Ascendancy of the 1920s
Warren G. Harding – “Return to Normalcy” Calvin Coolidge - “the chief business of the American people is business.” Herbert Hoover - "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.”

11. Review Terms
1920s Cultural Conflicts: race relations (Great Migration, Red Summer, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Jazz Music, Duke Ellington, New KKK), Prohibition (Wets v. Drys, organized crime, bootlegging, outcomes), Scopes Trial (Scopes, Clarence Darrow, Williams Jennings Bryan, outcome), women’s roles (flappers, social changes, reactions), immigration (Emergency Quota Act of 1921, Immigration Act of 1924, First Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti), Lost Generation writers
1920s Economics: return to laissez faire, big business (Ford, management techniques), labor conflict (1919 strikes), consumerism (technology, appliances, entertainment)

12. Great Migration

13. Harlem Renaissance

14. Harlem Renaissance – Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

15. Harlem Renaissance – Jazz Greats

16. New KKK

17. First Red Scare

18. Immigration Restriction Laws

19. Sacco and Vanzetti

20. Scopes Monkey Trial

21. Literature – “The Lost Generation”