1. The Roaring Twenties Isolationist
After WWI, the US emerged as a world power.
Most Americans wanted to focus on domestic (home) issues instead of dealing with the problems of the world.
Isolationist

2. Jazz Age Presidents

3. “A Return to Normalcy”
Republican Warren G. Harding promised a return to the way life was before WWI.
Surrounded himself with many political friends called “The Ohio Gang” = return to the Spoils System (giving friends jobs

4. Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Pres. Harding is betrayed by his friends in the “Ohio Gang”
Albert Fall leased land in Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming to oil companies in exchange for bribes.
Albert Fall was tried and found guilty, first cabinet member sent to prison

5. “Keep Cool with Cal”
Harding dies unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1923.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the US. The “Roaring Twenties” would begin.

6. Foreign Policy
Disarmament: the reduction or limitation of military arms.
Washington Naval Arms Conference 1921
Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 (outlaws war)

7. Business Fever
America experienced economic good times in the 1920s due to production during WWI.
Affordable cars.
Ford Model-T
By 1924 prices dropped from $850 to $290
** Helped to stimulate other markets– steel, rubber, fuel etc…**

8. Buy now, pay later… Installment buying Buying on credit
Helped American’s buy things they could not pay for all at once

9. Stocks Surge Bull Market Buying on Margin Soaring market
Buy a stock with a 10% down payment.

10. A Bull Market
After WWI, the US experienced a strong economy and with it a“Bull”stock market. Buying stocks was almost a fad of the 1920’s. Many people had extra money to invest in stocks or shares of companies.

11. “Buying on Margin”
Stocks were so profitable that people began buying stocks on margin or borrowing money in order to buy stocks. It was possible to literally become wealthy overnight.

12. Investor buys stock on margin
“Buying on Margin”
Stock Prices Rise
Investor pays off loan and makes a profit.
Investor buys stock on margin
Stock Prices Fall
Investor must put more money into the margin account, or sell stock, losing part or all of the original investment.

13. New Ways of Life Prohibition Ban on making and selling alcohol.
18th amendment
Bootleggers smuggled in alcohol
Speakeasies illegal bars

14. “Bootleggers”& “Bathtub Gin”

15. “Speakeasies”

16. Organized Crime

17. New Role for Women
19th Amendment is passed – Women have the right to vote.

18. New Role for Women
Women before WWI
Women after WWI

19. Harlem Renaissance
A period of vibrant African American culture in the 1920’s.
Many African American poets, musicians, and writers would settle in Harlem, NYC and use their experiences from prejudice and discrimination in their works.

20. A Mass Society
Movies helped to create a new national culture in the U.S.A.
Radio’s became very popular in the 1920’s.
**Helped to create various fads a style or activity that lasts a short time**

22. Fads & Heroes
Flappers
Bobbed Hair

23. The Charleston

24. Henry Ford’s Model T

25. Radio Shows

26. Charlie Chaplin

27. “The Jazz Singer”
First movie with SOUND!

28. Charles Lindberg

29. Bobby Jones, Jr.

30. Heavyweight Champion – Jack Dempsey

31. Babe Ruth

32. A New Sound - Jazz
George Gershwin

33. Louis Armstrong

35. Literature
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell To Arms

36. F. Scott Fitzgerald

37. Sinclair Lewis

38. Langston Hughes - Poet

39. Zora Neale Hurston