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Roaring Twenties

Roaring Twenties. Warren G. Harding. Thought he lacked the intelligence to be president Teapot Dome Scandal gov’t official received bribes for allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves. Calvin Coolidge. Became president when Harding died

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Roaring Twenties

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  1. Roaring Twenties

  2. Warren G. Harding • Thought he lacked the intelligence to be president • Teapot Dome Scandal • gov’t official received bribes for allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves

  3. Calvin Coolidge • Became president when Harding died • Aligned himself & gov’t with big business • Gov’t should not interfere with business

  4. Producing Great Quantities of Goods • By 1920’s: • The U.S. was the dominant economic power in the world • The automobile was an accepted part of life • New morality glorified personal freedom

  5. Producing Great Quantities of Goods • Installment plan • Most Americans purchased with credit • Henry Ford • Assembly Line: enormously increased manufacturing efficiency by dividing the job into simple tasks

  6. Prohibition • 18th Amendment (1920): prohibited alcohol • Volstead Act: reinforced 18th Amendment • Speakeasies: Illegal bars

  7. Prohibition • Organized Crime • Al Capone- gangster in Chicago • Bootlegging- illegal production & distribution of liquor • 21stAmendment • Repealed prohibition

  8. Fundamentalist Movement • Rejected the bible being free from errors • Scopes Trial • John Scopes put on trial for teaching evolution

  9. Flappers • Women who bobbed their hair and drank prohibited liquor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrQUz_mkUg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active (2:25)

  10. Charles A. Lindbergh • Made first solo transatlantic flight

  11. Writing in the 1920’s • Ernest Hemmingway • A Farewell to Arms • Portrayed war’s meaningless violence through a different kind of hero

  12. Harlem Renaissance • The blossoming of African American arts occurred

  13. Entertainment • Jazz Age • Louis Armstrong • Introduced early form of Jazz • Movies • Charlie Chaplin • Silent films • First talking movie The Jazz Singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsd6FX3C0c&safe=active

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