1. US History Mrs. Toth THE ROARING TWENTIES

2. WHAT WE ARE LEAVING BEHIND: WarDeathFlu PTSDLoneliness

3. WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TOO: Nativism No More Immigrants! Red Scare: Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, KKK, Quotas Isolationism League of Nations (War) Prosperity Lifestyles, Inventions, Leisure Activities The 20s

4. RED SCARE HYSTERIA

5. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION VLADAMIR LENIN AND RED ARMY 1 ST COMMUNIST LEADER OF RUSSIA FORMED THE U.S.S.R. (UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS) VOWED TO SPREAD COMMUNISM ACROSS THE WORLD FEAR OF COMMUNISM

6. Palmer Raids U.S. Attorney General Communists, Socialists, Anarchists Invaded private homes and offices, jailed suspects without counsel, deported immigrants FEAR OF COMMUNISM

7. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Italian Immigrants Braintree, MA Arrested for Murder and Robbery Circumstantial evidence Convicted and electrocuted FEAR OF COMMUNISM

8. Nativism… AT ITS WORST!

9. NATIVISM AT ITS WORST! KKK of the 20s Destroying sallons Opposing unions Roman Catholics Jews Immigrants Marcus Garvey The Quota System Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Set a quota for each nationality Immigration Act of 1924 2% of population from 1890 All Asians Excluded

10. Warren G. Harding

11. ADMINISTRATION OF WARREN G. HARDING Campaign Slogan Return to Normalcy Isolationism Fordney-McCumber Tariff Raised taxes on imports 60% Britain and France can’t sell Look to Germany, INFLATION! Loans to Britain and France CREATED LOANS TO PAY OURSELVES BACK!

12. SCANDALS OF THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION Charles R. Forbes Head of Veterans Bureau Illegally selling supplies Attorney General Taking Bribes Albert B. Fall Secretary of Interior Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California Oil Reserves for Navy transferred to his name $400,000 “loans, bonds, and cash”

15. Lifestyle Changes!

16. CARS! Model T Henry Ford Assembly $850 (1909)- $290 (1924) 400,000 miles of road Installment Plans Now think about: advertising, tourism, housing, shopping, construction, shopping, etc.)

17. US Postal Service Mail Carrying Service Development of weather forecasting Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart 1927 Pan American Airways First Transatlantic Passenger Flight AIRPLANES!

18. ELECTRICAL CONVENIENCES Goods and Prices, 1900 and 1928 19001928 Winger and washboard $5Washing Machine $150 Brushes and Brooms $5Vacuum Cleaner $50 Sewing Machine (Mechanical) $25Sewing Machine (Electric) $60

22. Advertising

23. 18 th Amendment ratified in January of 1919 Volstead Act ratified in October of 1919 Resulted in: Bootlegging and Speakeasies

24. GANGS IN THE CITY! Criminal Gangs began controlling liquor sales Al Capone controlled Chicago’s underworld ($60 million a year) St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 1929 Capone’s gang murdered 7 members of a rival gang

25. Fundamentalism TN Legislature ACLU Scopes “Monkey” Trial THE CLASH OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION

26. Clarence Darrow: Scope’s Attorney William Jennings Bryan: Prosecuting Attorney Deep Division in the Country: Traditional vs. Scientific THE CLASH OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION

27. “Flappers” Lifestyle in Public! SHORT BRIGHT CLOSE FITTING Working outside the home WOMEN OF THE 20S!

28. Education Graduation Rates College Reader’s Digest and Time Radio Sports: Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh Movies “The Jazz Singer” 1927 “Disney’s Steamboat Willie” Arts Plays, Painting, Writing, Theater POPULAR CULTURE

29. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms “Lost Generation” POPULAR CULTURE!

30. Harlem, NY Harlem, Renaissance Langston Hughes Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THE JAZZ!