1. THE ROARING TWENTIES: Normalcy, Radicalism and Economic Prosperity Key Figures

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
SS.912.A.5.1 Discuss the economic outcomes of demobilization.
SS.912.A.5.2 Explain the causes of the public reaction(Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare.
SS.912.A.5.4 Evaluate how the economic boom during the Roaring Twenties changed consumers, businesses, manufacturing, and marketing practices.
SS.912.A.5.6 Analyze the influence that Hollywood, the Harlem Renaissance, the Fundamentalist movement, and prohibition had in changing American society in the 1920s.
SS.912.A.5.10 Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities.

3. The Presidents Warren G. Harding: 29th President of the United States
Promised to return the U.S to normalcy, which meant that the U.S would stay out of foreign affairs
Overturned much of the progressive legislation of the Wilson Administration
Considered to be one of America’s worst presidents

4. The Presidents Calvin Coolidge: 30th President of the United States
Harding’s Vice President
Raised tariffs to protect the U.S. from foreign competition
Historians have blamed his laissez-faire ideology for the Great Depression

5. The Radicals Eugene V. Debs: Labor union activist
Convicted of violating the Espionage Act by giving a speech criticizing the war; sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
The Socialist Party's candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920.

6. The Radicals Mitchel Palmer: U.S Attorney General
Arrested Americans who were accused of being communists During the "Red Scare".
Had Socialist Headquarters raided frequently raided; "Palmer Raids"

7. The Radicals Sacco and Vanzetti:
Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927

8. The Radicals Marcus Garvey:
Founder of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Promoted racial redemption and repatriation to Africa
imprisoned and deported on charges of mail fraud.

9. The Radicals Clarence Darrow:
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Defended many labor unionists, including Eugene V. Debs.
Defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial”

10. Shaped the Decade Henry Ford: America's greatest businessmen
Founder of Ford Motor Company
Largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production

11. Shaped the Decade Al Capone:
He was a gangster in Chicago who had owned a large amount of speakeasies (illegal bars).
The only crime he was convicted of was him not paying his taxes

12. Shaped the Decade D.W. Griffith: Important movie director
One of the founders of the Hollywood film industry
1915 film Birth of a Nation depicted Ku Klux Klansmen as heroes; led to rebirth of KKK

13. Shaped the Decade Louis Armstrong:
Trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian
Considered one of the most influential artists in jazz history
Known for songs like "Star Dust," "La Via En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World."

14. Renaissance Men and Women
Duke Ellington:
Originator of big-band jazz, Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist and bandleader who composed thousands of scores over his 50- year career.

15. Renaissance Men and Women
Langston Hughes:
American poet, novelist, and playwright
African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance 

16. Renaissance Men and Women
Zora Neale Hurston:
Anthropologist and novelist
Collected folklore from the South, Caribbean and Latin America
Most famous work, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'

17. The Lost Generation Ernest Hemingway:
One of the most important writers of the 20th Century.
His brief writing style in his novels "A Farewell to Arms," "The Sun Also Rises," and "The Old Man and the Sea" changed literature forever.

18. The Lost Generation F. Scott Fitzgerald:
American short-story writer and novelist
Known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel The Great Gatsby.

19. The Lost Generation Gertrude Stein: American author and poet
Known for her modernist writings, extensive art collecting and literary salon in 1920s Paris.

20. The Lost Generation T.S. Eliot: Groundbreaking 20th century poet
Known widely for his work "The Waste Land."