1. Coping with Change 1920-1929 Chapter 23

2. 2 Readings You must read the entire chapter and prepare for reading check quizes. –Pp. 697-706 –Pp. 706-723 –Pp. 723-726

3. 3 A New Economic Order

4. 4 Booming Business, Ailing Agriculture Henry Ford –1927 Model A –Fordism Assembly line process By 1930 100 corporations controlled ½ the US wealth.

5. 5 Figure 23.1: Economic Expansion, 1920–1929

6. Figure 23.3: The Automobile Age: Passenger Cars Registered in the United States, 1900– 1992

7. 7 New Modes of Producing, Managing, and Selling Advertisements –Radio –Billboards –Newspaper –Magazine –$2 Billion

8. 8 Literature Your Money’s Worth Consumer Research Bulletin The Man Nobody Knows

9. 9 Struggling Labor Unions in a Business Age Unions often smeared with “Communist” label. Black excluded by most unions

10. 10 Standpat Politics in a Decade of Change Harding’s Cabinet –Henry C. Wallace –Charles Evans Hughes –Andrew Mellon –Herbert Hoover –Harry Daugherty –Albert Fall –Charles Forbes

11. 11 The Evolving Presidency: Scandals and Public-Relations Manipulation

12. 12 Teapot Dome

13. 13 Calvin Coolidge Warren Harding “Silent Cal” Wife, “What did the preacher preach on?” Coolidge, “Sin” Wife, “What did he say about sin?” Coolidge, “He was against it!”

14. 14 Silent “Cal” “The business of America is business.”

15. 15 Republican Policy Making in a Pro- business Era McNary-Haugen Bill

16. 16 Independent Internationalism Washington Naval Arms Conference

17. 17 Progressive Stirrings, Democratic Party Divisions Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) Ku Klux Klan Alfred E. Smith

18. 18 Mass Society, Mass Culture

19. 19 Prohibition Colonel L.B. Musgrove, Prohibition Party Member

20. 20 Cities, Cars, Consumer Goods

21. 21 Map 23.1: The Election of 1928

22. 22 Figure 23.2: The Urban and Rural Population of the United States, 1900– 2000

23. Figure 23.4: The African-American Urban Population, 1880–1960 (in millions)

24. 24 Soaring Energy Consumption and Environmental Threats

25. 25 Mass-Produced Entertainment

26. 26 Mass-Produced Entertainment, continued…

27. 27 Celebrity Culture Charles Lindbergh

28. 28 Cultural Ferment and Creativity

29. 29 The Jazz Age and Postwar Crisis of Values Flappers

30. 30 F. Scott Fitzgerald

31. 31 The New Woman in the 1920’s

32. 32 Alienated Writers H.L. Mencken

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