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United States in the 1920s. Ford and the Automobile. Henry Ford’s first car was the Model T He made the assembly line more efficient. (mass production) By having the product move and not the worker, he could produce products much more quickly. The Automobile Industry.
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United States in the 1920s
Ford and the Automobile • Henry Ford’s first car was the Model T • He made the assembly line more efficient. (mass production) • By having the product move and not the worker, he could produce products much more quickly.
The Automobile Industry • Auto makers stimulate sales through model changes, advertising • Auto industry fostered the growth of other businesses • Autos encourage movement and more individual freedom.
Republican Policies • Return to "normalcy" • tariffs raised • corporate, income taxes cut • spending cuts • Government-business cooperation • “The business of government, is business” • Return to “isolation”
Conflict: Traditional values vs new ideas found in the cities.
K K K Rise of the KKK was do to the ever changing of a traditional America. • 1925: Membership of 5 million • 1926: Marched on Washington. • Attack on urban culture and defends Christian/Protestant and rural values • Sought to win U.S. by persuasion and gaining control in local/state government.
Red Scare • Red Scare, 1919 to 1921, was the fear of the spread of communism in the United States. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer • 6,000 immigrants the government suspected of being Communists were arrested (Palmer Raids) and 600 were deported or expelled from the U.S. • No due process was followed
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS • The U.S. Government began to restrict certain “undesirable” immigrants from entering the U.S.
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS • Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, in which newcomers from Europe were restricted at any year to a quota, which was set at 3% of the people of their nationality who lived in the U.S. in 1910. • Immigration Act of 1924, the quota down to 2% and the origins base was shifted to that of 1890, when few southeastern Europeans lived in America.
RADIO • Radio sets, parts and accessories brought in $60 million in 1922… • $136 million in 1923 • $852 million in 1929 • Radio reached into every third home in its first decade. • Listening audience was 50,000,000 by 1925
Movies • Between 1910 and 1930 the number of theatres rose from 5,000 to 22,500. • Before 1927, all movie were silent. • The Jazz Singer, the first movie with sound was released in 1927. • Movies with sound were known as “talkies.” • People went to the movies to try and forget about their problems.
The Jazz Age • Jazz features improvisation, where the musician makes up the music as they are playing. • It grew out of the Blues and Ragtime. • Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, was the biggest performer of the time.
Irving Berlin and Tin Pan Alley • Berlin was one of the most successful songwriters in American history. • He wrote God Bless America, White Christmas, Anything You Can Do, and There’s No Business Like Show Business. • Tin Pan Alley was an area of New York City where many of the popular songwriters of the time lived during the 1910s and 1920s.
The Harlem Renaissance • For African Americans, the cultural center of the US was New York City’s Harlem. • In the 1920s, it was the home of African American literary awakening. • The famous writers are Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Alain Locke.
Rap/Poem Your rap/poem MUST Rhyme and have at least 4 stanzas with four lines each (16 lines in all). You may work with more than one person, but you need 16 lines per person in your group.
Magazine Cover or Magazine Article • Your magazine cover should include… • Pictures • Titles and descriptions for feature articles inside the magazine (At least 2) • An advertisement (from the time period) • Your article should include… • At least 8 sentences discussing any major movements and/or inventions that would be included in a 1920’s magazine.
