1. The New Era: The Roaring 20’s

2. Take Five…
In the 1920s, the United States experienced an economic boom due to, among other things,   A) the mobilization of the economy for war.   B) increased government restrictions on big business.   C) installment buying and an unregulated stock market.   D) the expansion of civil rights to women and minorities.

4. Economic Boom New or Improved Technologies Auto industry
Frederick Taylor
Ford and GM

6. Economic Boom The invention of the Radio Mass production
Buying on time

7. Economic boom
Commercial Aviation
Wright Brothers
Charles Lindbergh

8. Lucky Lindy

9. Spirit of St. Louis

10. Economic boom Early computers Genetic research Gregor Mendel
Thomas Hunt Morgan

11. Thomas Hunt Morgan

12. Plight of the Workers Henry Ford “welfare capitalism”
Unionization in the 1920’s
The “American Plan”
Working women and minorities
“pink-collar” jobs
minorities and unions
Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

13. A. Philip Randolph

14. Plight of the Workers (con’t)
Farmers
Increased technology
Supply & demand
McNary-Haugan Bill

15. New Consumerism Mass production Advertising Bruce Barton
Mass communication
Mass circulation magazines
Movies
“Talkies” are introduced
The Jazz Singer

16. Bruce Barton

17. Radio broadcasting
Radio
KDKA
National Broadcasting Co.

18. KDKA Radio

19. The New Professional Woman
John B. Watson
Margaret Sanger
National women’s party
Alice Paul
ERA
Sheppard-Towner Act

20. Margaret Sanger

21. Alice Paul

22. Arts and Literature “Debunkers” H.L. Mercken Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Earnest Hemingway
Harlem Renaissance
Tin Pan Alley
Langston Hughes
“Duke” Ellington
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
Irving Berlin
The Jazz Age
Flappers

23. F. Scott Fitzgerald

25. Ernest Hemingway

26. James Langston Hughes

27. The Flapper

29. Harlem Renaissance Literary movement Social movement
“problem of being black in a white culture”
Social movement
Marcus Garvey
United Negro Improvement Association
Back to Africa movement
Mail fraud—deportment

30. Take Five…
Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was repealed because   A) the President vetoed the Amendment.   B) women demanded the right to suffrage.   C) the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.   D) Congress and the states agreed to repeal it.

31. Traditional values vs. Modern culture
Prohibition
Ushering in the Gangster Era
Johnny Torrio
Al Capone “Public Enemy #1”
“Big Bill Thompson”
"We'll not only reopen places these people have closed, but we'll open 10,000 new ones (speakeasies) in Chicago
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

32. Al Capone

33. Al Capone’s “Mug-shot” 1931

34. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

35. Take Five…for Pat Points…
What conflicts emerged between those with traditional values and those with new modern values? Give 3 examples.

36. Nativism New immigration restrictions Quota system
The National Origins Act of 1924
Nativism
Rebirth of the KKK
Leo Frank
D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation

37. Leo Frank

38. Mary Phagan

39. Take Five Which of these periods saw the smallest overall
population increase?   A)   B)   C)   D)

40. Religious Modernists vs. Fundamentalists
Creation vs. Evolution
Scopes “Monkey” Trial

41. Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan

42. Monkey Business…

45. The Great “Bull” Market
Wild speculation in the Stock market
Buying stocks “on-margin”
Wildcats schemes
Selling under-water lots in Florida devastated by hurricanes and advertised as “soothing tropical winds”
Secretary of the Treasury-Mellon
Reduced the national debt by $10 million
“Spare the rich” policies
High taxes discouraged business
Eliminating the excess-profits taxes, gift taxes, and income taxes for the rich

46. Democratic Party
Al Smith
William McAdoo
John Davis

47. Warren G. Harding

48. Presidency in the New Era
Warren G. Harding ( )
Ohio Gang
Scandal in the White House
Teapot Dome & Elk Hills
Calvin Coolidge
( )
World War I debt
Herbert Hoover

49. Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge