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The Jazz Age What was the impact of the war upon the goals of progressivism? Did the nation advance in a new direction? Explain.

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1 The Jazz Age What was the impact of the war upon the goals of progressivism? Did the nation advance in a new direction? Explain

2 The Roaring Twenties Sometimes the decade known as the Jazz Age an uniquely American musical genre The economy boomed for six years and then busted. It was the returning dominancy of Corporate U.S.A. Trickle down, bullish markets, mergers, rising affluent class Maldistribution of wealth, farm depression, surpluses

3 The 1920 Election Return to Normalcy amid disillusion Progressivism repudiated Era of Prohibition Democrats in retreat GOP Dominancy

4 Liberating Capitalism Revamping the Tariff Reducing Taxes Deregulation Wall Street and Easy Money Corporate Mergers and pyramiding Land Boom: Florida and California Production Revolution: Auto & Appliances

5 A Roar or A Whelp Maldistribution of income Depressed commodity prices Surplus production Margin purchases Weak economic sectors Farm depression Decline of Labor

6 Scandalous Behavior The Ohio Gang Elk Hills and Teapot Dome Veterans Bureau Deregulation The American People

7 Popular Culture Credit and Consumerism Role of Advertisements Age of the Auto and its impact Making Movies Search for Heroes Scope Trial: Creationism in retreat? Prohibition

8 Women 19 th Amendment Suffrage and ERA Impact of WWI The Flappers In the Age of Play

9 The Harlem Renaissance Struggle for Equality The Great Migration War’s Experience Marcus Garvey: UNIA The New Negro NAACP Jazz & New Orleans Literature Theater The Cotton Club Black Voices Emerging Militancy

10 Plight of the Common Man Babbit and Main Street Woes of Labor Anti War Sentiment The Lost Generation Urbanization The Farmer

11 Elections of 24 and 28 Death of Harding Silent Cal: Business of USA Booming through 27 Hoover placing a chix in every pot

12 The Warning Signs Easy Money Oligopolies Deregulation Uneven economic growth Optimism and the Markets Laisses Faire Declining Incomes and maldistribution $$$

13 The Crash Black Thursday, October 24, 1929 and the panic spreads October 29, 1929 collapse Hoover’s Response: Hesitancy in cycle? Falling GNP, Investments and purchases Stockpiles of production Wall street and banks


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