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Bell Work. Do Now: Define the term fad , then make a list of fads from your generation. In a teams of 4 identify and list themes/events in the 1920’s that attach to each of the listed topics Out of the 5 topics, what do you think is the crucial topic of the roaring 20’s?. Topics: Politics

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  1. Bell Work Do Now: Define the term fad, then make a list of fads from your generation.

  2. In a teams of 4 identify and list themes/events in the 1920’s that attach to each of the listed topics Out of the 5 topics, what do you think is the crucial topic of the roaring 20’s? Topics: Politics Economics Values Cultural innovations African American Culture The Roaring 20’s: Chp. 20 (659-687)

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  4. The Twenties and the New Era • Post War America • Recession 1919 • 15% Inflation • Labor Strife • Boston Police Strike 1919 • Racial Strife • Chicago 1919 • Tulsa 1921 • Failure of the Treaty of Versailles • Isolationism

  5. 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) First Reported in Spain 675,000 Americans Die Over 50 Million World Wide The Twenties and the New Era I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flew-enza. —Children's Rhyme, 1918

  6. Conflict of Cultures • Red Scare and the Palmer Raids • Bolshevik Revolution 1917 • 1919 • Communist International • Strike! • 4 million worker (1in 5) • Bomb Threats • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • Palmer Raids • “Soviet Ark” 1920 • 249 Citizens Deported

  7. Conflict of Cultures • Sacco and Vanzetti • Italian Immigrants • Anarchists • Guilty 1920 • Executed 1927 • Significant questions about the evidence and fairness of the trial

  8. Conflict of Cultures • Nativism- Again • Emergency Quota Act 1921 • Quotas set on 1910 Census (3%) • National Origins Act of 1924 • Quotas set on 1890 Census (2%) Targets Southeastern Europeans

  9. Images of Nativism

  10. Were the Immigration Quotas Effective? Total Immigration, 1920-1960

  11. Conflict of Cultures • The New Klan 1915 • Defending “Traditional Values” • Rural/Urban Divide • Against “Moral Corruption” of Cities • Fought “Un-American” Values • Target Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants • Membership peaked at 4 Million in 1924

  12. Conflict of Cultures • Failure of Prohibition • 18th Amendment-Volstead Act 1919 • Alcohol and Organized Crime • Bootlegging • Speakeasies • 21st Amendment 1933 • Repeals prohibition

  13. The Twenties and the New Era • Modernists vs. Traditionalist • Scopes Monkey Trial 1925 • Evolution vs. Creationism • Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan • Scopes found guilty • Influence of Radio

  14. The Twenties and the New Era • Mass Entertainment • The Movies • Hollywood • 1929 – 100 Million • Radio and “Broadcasting” • 1929- 10 million • Mass Marketing

  15. The Twenties and the New Era “Our Dancing Daughters” By Dorothy Parker The Playful flapper here we see, The fairest of the fair. She's not what Grandma used to be, -- You might say, au contraire. Her girlish ways may make a stir, Her manners cause a scene, But there is no more harm in her Than in a submarine. She nightly knocks for many a goal The usual dancing men. Her speed is great, but her control Is something else again.All spotlights focus on her pranks. All tongues her prowess herald. For which she well may render thanks To God and Scott Fitzgerald. Her golden rule is plain enough - Just get them young and treat them rough. • 19TH AmendmentWomen’s right to vote • Professional Women • Limited opportunities • 10 Million Workers by 1930 • Few Managers • The “Flapper” • Automobiles • Mobility

  16. The Twenties and the New Era • Education and Youth • Increased Attendance • Truancy Laws • Americanization

  17. The Twenties and the New Era • Lost Generation’s Critique • Rejected Success • Rejected Consumerism/ Materialism • Rejected Idealism • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Ernest Hemingway • T.S. Eliot

  18. The Twenties and the New Era • The Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration • African-American Pride • “New Negro” • NAACP • Anti-Lynching Crusade • Integration • Marcus Garvey • Self Reliance • “Back to Africa”

  19. Harlem Renaissance Common Themes: Alienation Marginality The use of folk material The use of the blues tradition

  20. Harlem Renaissance More than just a literary movement: Included racial consciousness Celebration of African traditions “Folk” Culture Explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues Painting, dramatic revues, etc.

  21. Conflict of Cultures • Jazz! • Roots in Dixieland and Ragtime • New Orleans – Up River • Kansas City • Chicago • New York- Harlem • Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington

  22. The Twenties and the New Era • Technology and Economic Growth • Automobiles • Where people live and work • Aviation and Trains • Travel and interdependence • Radio • What people hear and know • Consumer Goods • What people want and need

  23. The Twenties and the New Era • Impact of the Automobile • Social • Family Structure • Challenges Stability • Work • Commuters Breaking Down Rural Isolation: The Expansion of Travel Horizons in Oregon, Illinois

  24. The Twenties and the New Era • Consumerism • Growing Mass Consumption • Mass Marketing/ Advertising • Easy Credit • Installment Plan • Buying on Margin

  25. The Twenties and the New Era • A New Economy • Economies of Scale/Mass Production • Assembly Line • Henry Ford • $5.00 a day

  26. The Twenties and the New Era • The New Economy • Improved Conditions for Workers- “Welfare Capitalism” • Increased Productivity • Increased Standard of living • Decline in Working Hours • 1929- $1,500 vs. $1,800?? • Hard Times for Organized Labor • Open Shops- “American Plan”

  27. The Twenties and the New Era • Hard Times on the Farm • New Agricultural Technology • Mechanized Farming • Overproduction • Tariffs • Increasing Debt • Farm Tenancy • Nature • Drought

  28. Farm Tenancy

  29. The Twenties and the New Era • Republican Government • Warren G. Harding • “Return to Normalcy” • Isolationism/Neutrality • Washington Naval Conference 1922 • Raised Tariffs (Ford-McCumber Act) • Smaller Government • Cut Regulation (FTC) • Cut Taxes • Top tax rate reduced from 50% to 25%

  30. The Twenties and the New Era • Republican Government • Warren G. Harding • Scandals • “Ohio Gang” • Veteran’s Bureau Scandal • Charles Forbes • Tea Pot Dome • Albert Fall

  31. The Twenties and the New Era • Republican Government • Calvin Coolidge • Silent Cal • Traditional Conservative • “The business of America is business.” • 1924- Easily Wins Reelection “The man who builds a factory, builds a temple. The man who works there, worships there.”

  32. The Twenties and the New Era • Calvin Coolidge • “The expenses of the government reach everybody. Taxes take from everyone a part of his earning and force everyone to work for a certain part of his time for the government.” • “. . . I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves.”

  33. The Twenties and the New Era • Divided Democrats • Regional Splits- Rural/ Urban • Ethnic/Religious Divisions • Alcohol- Wets vs. Dries • Failed Elections • 1920- James Cox and Roosevelt • 1924- John M. Davis and Lafollette • 1928- Al Smith and Robinson

  34. Isolationism/Neutrality in the 1920’s

  35. The Twenties and the New Era • World Affairs- Harding and Coolidge • Return to Isolationism • Reject Treaty of Versailles • Reject League of Nations • Arms Control • Washington Conference 1922 • 4-5-9 Power Treaties • Open Door in China • Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

  36. The Twenties and the New Era • World Affairs- Finance • Post War Economic Crisis • German Reparations • French and British War Debts- 10 Billion • High U.S. Tariffs • Dawes Plan 1926

  37. Herbert Hoover 1928 “The Engineer” • Rugged Individualism “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.”Herbert Hoover “. . . The average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it.”Henry Ford

  38. Sources of Immigration, 1920-1960 Total Immigration, 1920-1960

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