1. Chapter 10: The “Roaring Twenties”

2. Europe USA Conditions After WWI Physical condition=awful
Many parts of Europe were destroyed
Many deaths
Very little food or $
Physical condition=good
No war was fought on US soil
Not as many deaths
Only in war for 18 months
Intense economic growth
Things were really good!

3. Red Scare New fears after WWI
-towards communists, anarchists, immigrants
During the war, Russia experienced Communist revolts
-Communists threatened to spread to other
countries
Communism is the belief that factories, equipment, companies, etc. are commonly owned, and nations should have no social classes. Communism says that the people of a nation should own and have a say in the economy, equally.
Thousands of suspected communists were deported from the USA during the Red Scare
-The sickle and hammer represents workers.
-Red represents the blood spilled by workers’ revolutions.

4. Red Scare Palmer Raids -Italian anarchist set off a bomb outside the
home of Attorney General Palmer
-Other attacks happened the same day
-The nation demanded action be taken
-Palmer arrested 4,000 suspects without
warrants
-600 were deported out of the US
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
-2 Italian Immigrants
-Convicted of robbery and murder
-Despite insufficient evidence, they were executed
-To prove the USA wasn’t weak towards
anarchists

5. Growth of Nativism and Racism
WWI and the Red Scare led to an increased hatred towards foreigners and other races
Many nativists believed that white Protestant-Americans were superior to everyone else
Ku Klux Klan reborn in 1915
-Hatred towards immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans

6. Nativism and Racism Major race riots erupt in major cities
-Chicago, IL (1919)
-38 deaths, 500+ injured
-Tulsa, OK (1921)
-39 deaths, 800+ injured
-Many buildings destroyed
Lynching of African Americans continues
Jim Crow segregation in the South continues
-Laws allowing racism

7. 1920’s Presidents
Complete the Graphic Organizer Handout using the brown Jarrett book
Pages (and page 54)

8. Bell Ringer
*You have 15 minutes to finish your test corrections.* If you are done (or when you finish), answer the following in your bell ringer (2 or more sentences): If you could go back to anytime in history when would it be and why?

9. Test Corrections
To receive credit for incorrect answers:
-Write the whole question and whole correct answer
-Example:
1) Who was the first president of the United States?
B) George Washington

10. 3 Republican presidents Policies were pro-business
1920s Presidents
Harding
Hoover
Coolidge
3 Republican presidents
Policies were pro-business
-Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
-High tariffs (taxes in imports)
-Protected US manufacturers from foreign competition
-Lowered taxes for the rich and businesses
-Laissez-Faire (hands-off) approach to the economy
The economy begins to flourish

11. Automobile Henry Ford -Inventor of the modern car
-used the assembly line
-more efficient method of production
-Wanted to make cars affordable for all Americans
-Allowed greater/faster travel across the country

12. New household appliances Vacuum cleaner Refrigerator Toaster Radio
1920s Innovations
New household appliances
Vacuum cleaner
Refrigerator
Toaster
Radio
Movies
Airplanes
Wright Brothers-First plane
Glenn Curtiss-seaplane

13. Increased advertisement Higher Wages More free-time Buying on credit
Mass Consumption
Increased advertisement
Higher Wages
More free-time
Buying on credit
-Pay a small down payment to take an item home
-Pay the rest in small amounts (plus interest)
-Installment plans

14. As businesses started making more money, the stock market rose
Many Americans began to “speculate”
-Buying an item intending to sell it later at a higher price
-Led more people to buy stocks, rise in stock prices

15. Not all groups received benefits from the prosperity.
Uneven Prosperity
Not all groups received benefits from the prosperity.
Top 0.1% of Americans controlled 42% of the wealth.

16. Bell Ringer
Explain something your age group is known for that older generations look down on or don’t understand? Example: My age group is known for waiting until they are older to have children. Many older generations think we are waiting too long and should have children a little younger because they did.

17. 1920s Stations
Complete the questions at each station using the McGraw Hill (blue/black) book.
You will have to share books.
Station #1: Women
Station #2: Scopes Trial/Monkey Trial
Station #3: Prohibition
Station #4: The Harlem Renaissance

18. Clash of Values
During the 1920s there was conflict between younger and older generations and between people with different belief systems.
-Struggle between modern and traditional beliefs was reflected in the literature, films, and dramas of the 1920s.

19. Clash of Values
1920s: A time of conflict between traditional and new ideas and morals. Examples: -Prohibition (Alcohol) -Scopes Trial (Religion/Science) -Ideas of Tolerance (Nativism/Racism) -Flappers (Role of Women) -Music, Dance, Literature

20. Prohibition
Many people blamed alcohol for crime and poverty
-Protestant & Women’s groups fought to end the sale of alcohol
Prohibition
-made the buying, selling, and consuming of alcohol illegal
-Put many out of work
Many found ways to get around it.
-led to MORE crime
Failure
21st Amendment ended it

21. Religion vs. Science
Scopes Trial/“Monkey Trial”
Brought into question religion vs. science

22. Belief in Anglo-Saxon Superiority Eugenics
Religion Vs. Science
Belief in Anglo-Saxon Superiority
Eugenics
-Belief that the human race could be improved by breeding
-Superior parents would have better children
-attempted to promote ideal genetics
-Closely tied to Social Darwinism
-belief that different races competed for survival

23. Women felt new freedom in the 20s -wore less restrictive clothing
Women in the 20s
19th Amendment
Women’s right to vote
Women felt new freedom in the 20s
-wore less restrictive clothing
-work outside the home
-college educations

24. Flapper
-Short skirts
-Short hair
-Makeup
-Dancing

25. -African American movement -From the South to the North and Midwest
African-Americans
The Great Migration
-African American movement
-From the South to the North and Midwest
Back-to-Africa Movement
-Marcus Garvey
-African American political activist
-Wanted total liberation of all Africans
-Return to Africa (Liberia)

26. African-Americans Cont.
The Harlem Renaissance
-African American culture
-Music, dance, literature
-optimism, pride, confidence
-grew in New York City
-Langston Hughes and Alain Locke
-Pride in culture, Attacked racism
-Hughes-recognized as one of America’s best poets
Video Clip

27. Begin Great Depression
Use the handouts to complete the worksheet on the Great Depression.