1. Chapter 13 The Roaring 20s Section 1 A Booming Economy
How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in American life?

2. How the automobile changed us…
Henry Ford and mass production
Scientific mgt & assembly line
Model T- made ownership possible
Production time and cost are driven down
Wages rise & weekends off

3. Other industries born from the car
Need for oil production
Need for roads
Need for service stations
Need for places to eat and go to
Need for a place to sleep
How did it effect people of your age group at that time?

4. Consumer Revolution Gotta have it…. NOW Installment plans
Advertising and psychology
Buy stocks on margin lead to increased wealth
Leisure time increases

5. Cities and suburbs grow
Cars lead to growth of suburbs
Cities attract workers & become more attractive
Farmers reel from the post-war drop in demand

6. Section 2 The Business of Government
How did domestic and foreign policy change direction under Harding and Coolidge?

7. President Harding’s Administration
Mellon lowered taxes and reduced spending to a point of surplus
Harding raised tariffs & practiced Laissez-faire
Hoover advanced labor and business relations

8. Harding’s legacy of scandals
Sought advice from the “Ohio Gang”
Forbes spends, Daugherty take money
Teapot Dome, Fall take naval oil reserves and sell them.
Harding dies before public is aware

9. Harding dies, Coolidge takes oath
Coolidge supports business by offering incentives in lower taxes
Does not address issues such as labor unrest, discrimination, racial violence
Silent Cal remains silent

10. America’s World Role
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference; limit naval build up
Kellogg-Briand Pact; outlawed war as a solution
Dawes Plan; Loan money to Germany so Britain & France could pay us

11. Section 3 Social & Cultural Tensions
How did Americans differ on major social and cultural issues?

12. Traditionalism & Modernism Clash
Rural and Urban America splits
Urban; (modernism)
Enjoyed leisure time
Open to social change
Embraced science and secularism
Reduced emphasis on religious traditions
Emphasis on education

13. Traditionalism Rural; (Fundamentalism) Christianity was under attack
Upset over increase secularism
Literal belief in the Bible
The Bible provided all answers, not science

14. The showdown in Tennessee
Scopes “monkey” Trial
John Scopes taught Darwin’s theory of evolution in school
Clarence Darrow defended
William J. Bryan prosecution
Scopes was found guilty but the issue remains today

15. Restricting Immigration
Nativists still oppose immigrants
Literacy test for immigrants
Fear of Socialism & Communism
Emergency Quota Act 1921 & National Origins Act 1924 both set a quota or limited the # of immigrants based on region
Mexicans not included but faced hostilities

16. The New & Improved KKK 1915 Stone Mt Georgia
Extended scope of hate to Jews & immigrants
Portrayed as anti-crime & immorality (Birth of A Nation)
Marched on D.C. in 1925
Spread out of the South
Corruption lead to decline of Klan

17. Crime increases due to Prohibition
Volstead Act provided enforcement of the 18th Amendment
Bootleggers, rum-runners, moonshiners
Speakeasies and bath tub gin
Local police rarely enforced law
Criminals like Al Capone ruled cities and were often seen as heroes

18. Section 4: New Mass Culture
How did the new mass culture reflect technological and social changes?

19. Changes in the work week and wages provide leisure time for many
Movies: silent stars; Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford & Lon Chaney
Al Jolson in the 1st “talkie”, The Jazz Singer
Radio & phonograph brought music and more

20. Heroes of the Era Sports: Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Dempsey & Bobby Jones
Aviation:
Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart & barn-stormers

21. New Roles for Women Flappers: What is a flapper?
Women earn new jobs markets
Live longer & have fewer kids
Fought for Equal Rights Amendment, got it passed but not ratified

22. Modernism in Art and Literature
Art moved towards abstract
Lost Generation: authors who were disillusioned after the horrors of WW I, lost faith in Victorian culture
Many became ex-patriots
Faulkner, Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Wharton gained great notoriety

23. Section 5- Harlem Renaissance
How did African Americans express a new sense of hope and pride?
Marcus Garvey calls for separation of the races and a Back to Africa movement
Advocated Black Pride and support for black businesses only
Convicted of fraud, but message lived on

24. The Jazz Age Founded in the South- New Orleans
Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
Clubs brought the black music to whites in America, Cotton Club
Jazz bridged the gap between races
Black literature grows, McKay, Langston Hughes & Hurston
Political and cultural platform