1. The 1920s
Unit Intro and Vocab

2. Nicknames of the 1920s
Jazz Age Roaring 20s The Heroic Twenties Laissez-Faire Decade Era of Wonderful Nonsense The Lawless Decade Age of Disillusionment Age of Intolerance

3. Age of Intolerance KKK Nativism Funda-mentalism: Scopes Trial
The Red Scare
Intolerance in the 1920s
Quota System
Marcus Garvey
Anti-Mexican Attitude
Blacks in the North

4. America 1865-1920: The Great Transition

5. America in 1865 America in 1920 Farming economy Rural society
Protestant nation
English-speaking
Stable, settled, unchanging
Local emphasis
Culture of independence
West as “escape”
Isolated from world
“Middle class” nation
Technologically stable
Sense of Community
Industrial economy
Urban society
Multi-religious
Polylinguistic
Unsettled, ever changing
Mass culture
Culture of dependence
West closed
U.S. a global power
“New” rich & poor
Technological leaps
Social Darwinism

6. Psychological Changes “Price of Industrialization”
America in 1865
America in 1920
U.S. is unique, different from & superior to the “old world”
U.S. without class conflict
U.S. politics uncorrupted
Fear that U.S. is becoming like Europe
Growing conflict (rich/ poor, rural/city, race, etc)
Corruption dominant

7. The 20th Century:
A Search for Order

8. How to respond to the problems of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization? How to maintain American uniqueness? How will the U.S. be “different” from Europe and other societies?

9. The decade of the 1920s represents the search for these answers.

10. Unit Vocabulary

11. distrustful, pessimistic; having a low opinion of humanity
cynical
distrustful, pessimistic; having a low opinion of humanity

12. Victorian Era
Era of the 1830s – 1901; named after Britain’s Queen Victoria; a time of relative peace and prosperity

13. normalcy
term coined by President Harding; referred to the time before WWI and the Progressives when the U.S. was “normal”

14. ideology
System of beliefs that guides an individual or a group (i.e. a nation) and determines its actions

15. Communism
political system with a dictatorship and an economic system with an extreme form of socialism

16. Member of the Russian Communist Party
Bolshevik
Member of the Russian Communist Party

17. Republicanism
ideas of the Republican party in the 1920s; smaller government; laissez faire, and isolationism

18. fundamentalism
emphasis on the basic truth as related to religion; the belief that every word in the Bible is the literal truth

19. modernism
emphasis on science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion

20. total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages
temperance
total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages

21. Prohibition
Banning of all manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

22. an increasing consumption of goods/products
consumerism
an increasing consumption of goods/products

23. good times in a country relating to economics
prosperity
good times in a country relating to economics

24. period of rising stock prices
Bull Market
period of rising stock prices

25. a share of ownership in a corporation
stock
a share of ownership in a corporation

26. gambling on the stock market
speculation
gambling on the stock market

27. period of falling stock prices
Bear Market
period of falling stock prices