1. The Roaring 20s

2. Economic Adjustment Before WWI:
Second Industrial Revolution & some new inventions
Poor work conditions
During WWI:
Increase production for war effort
-Food & prices increase

3. Economic Adjustment After WWI: -Decrease production war is over
-New inventions
-People have money to spend
-Booming economy
-Credit: Buy now, pay later
-Installment plans: monthly payments for more expensive items

4. Workers/Labor Before WWI:
-Labor unrest, harsh conditions, poor pay/hours
-Strikes but usually management wins
During WWI:
-Need workers so increase wages and National War Labor Board settles disputes
-But increase hours, taxes, and prices

5. Workers/Labor After War: -No longer need workers
-People have money to spend on new inventions

6. Labor Relations Before WWI:
-Workers tried to unionize but government often sided with management
During WWI:
-Union membership increased
-National War Labor Board helps regulate disputes

7. Labor Relations -People have money to spend on new inventions
After WWI:
-People have money to spend on new inventions
-More unrest & general strikes: many unions strike at once
Boston: Police Strike
Seattle: Ship workers
Indiana: Steel

8. Women Before WWI: -No voting rights -Lower pay than men
-Long dresses, long sleeves
During WWI:
-Take over male jobs/pay increases
-Skirts got shorter because need material
-Glimpse of independence

9. Women After WWI: -Return home or take lower paying jobs
-Most lose jobs to returning soldiers
-Gain voting rights
-Some rebels: flappers-wore shorter skirts, cut hair, smoked in public, drove cars, played sports

10. African Americans Before WWI: -Lower wages -Discrimination During WWI:
-Great Migration: start moving north for jobs and to escape segregation
-Better pay
-More jobs available due to the war and less immigration
-Soldiers were segregated & given minimal jobs

11. African Americans After WWI:
-Soldiers return to discrimination & segregation
-Marcus Garvey Movement: back to Africa

12. African Americans
-Harlem Renaissance: rebirth of African American culture
-Jazz spreads from New Orleans to NY : Louie Armstrong, Bessie Smith
-Writers such as Langston Hughes

13. Immigration Before WWI: -Floods of immigrants
-Lack of work and harsh conditions due to large supply of workers
During WWI:
-Restrict immigration
Why?

14. Immigration After WWI: -Nativism & Isolationism
-Restrict immigration to 350,000
-Quotas for certain nationalities (decrease numbers for South and Eastern Europe)
-No Asians
Why?
Sacco & Vanzetti: shows prejudice toward immigrants

15. Red Scare Before WWI: -Russia ally During WWI:
-Russia ally but pull out of war early
After WWI:
-Becomes USSR & communist
-No longer ally
-U.S. fears communism will spread: Red Scare
Effect on Immigration?

16. Farmers Before WWI: -Chronically poor, low crop prices, debt
During WWI:
-Need food for soldiers so crop prices increase
-farmers are making money to pay off debt

17. Farmers After WWI: -Surplus of crops -Crop prices drop
-Increase debt, buy new farm equipment on credit
-Prohibition: 18th Amendment no alcohol so can’t use grain for alcohol
-During war had used all of their land to farm, land begins drying out

18. What was the economy of the 20’s like?
What were some signs that the economy was troubled in the 20’s?
How can this lead to the negative effects you will see in the 1930’s?