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The Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Prosperity and Turmoil

Explore the vibrant and tumultuous decade of the 1920s, characterized by economic growth, technological advancements, social change, and political scandals. Witness the rise of the automotive industry, radio and film, corporate measures, the Harding and Coolidge presidencies, the emergence of flappers and the Harlem Renaissance, prohibition, urban/rural conflicts, and the Second Ku Klux Klan. Delve into entertainment trends like jazz, silent movies, and professional sports, as well as the impact of fundamentalism and diplomatic events. Discover the complexities of this transformative era in American history.

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The Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Prosperity and Turmoil

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  1. The Roaring Twenties

  2. A Booming Economy • Efficiency and Power • Automotive Industry: 5 million/year by 1929, 26 million autos. • Chemistry and Avionics • Radio and Film: • 732 Radio Stations: 1927 • 20,000 theatres sell 100 million tickets a week

  3. Corporate Measures • Consolidation: Oligopolies • The Open Shop • Welfare Capitalism • Union Decline • Wage Problems • Sick Industries

  4. Warren G. Harding

  5. Warren G. Harding (1920-3) • New Peace Treaty • Disarmament • Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 • Working for Business • Corruption: • Albert Fall--Teapot Dome Scandal • James Daughterty--AG for Sale

  6. Calvin Coolidge (and Sioux Indians)

  7. Calvin Coolidge (1923-8) • Fiddling While Rome Burns • Silent Cal • Pro-Business President • Public Finance • Farmers

  8. Cities and Suburbs • Urban Growth • Great Migration • Barrios • Suburbs

  9. Flappers

  10. The Jazz Age • Enjoyment of Prosperity + Regrets • The Flapper • Reaction to World War I -- The Lost Generation from Steinbeck to Hemingway • Freud • Small Town Life

  11. Harlem Renaissance • Twenties Prosperity in the Cities • Race Capital: Harlem • Art and Music • Depression

  12. A. Phillip Randolph • Writer for The Messenger in Harlem • Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925) • Forced defense jobs to stop boycotting blacks (1941) • Organizes March on Washington (1963)

  13. Marcus Garvey • Jamaican leader of Pan-Africanism • Universal Negro Improvement Association (1919-27), 30 branches in US, 500,000 members • Black Star Line (1919) • Deported for Mail Fraud

  14. Entertainment • Jazz • Radio • Silent Movies • Professional Sports

  15. Chicago Union Giants (a Black baseball team)

  16. Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion 1919-26

  17. Urban/Rural Conflict • Nativism--National Origins Act of 1924 • The Klu Klux Klan Returns • Prohibition • Failure • Organized Crime • Successes • Post-Repeal

  18. The Second Klu Klux Klan

  19. Prohibition--Police Raid

  20. Prohibition--Speakeasy

  21. Prohibition--Organized Crime

  22. Fundamentalism • Pentacostals • Prohibition • Immorality of the Cities • Literal Interpretation of the Bible • The Scopes Trial

  23. Billy Sunday, Evangelist

  24. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan--Scopes Trial

  25. Diplomacy, 1921-9 • Washington Naval Conference • Five Powers Pact • Four Powers Pact • Nine Powers Pact • World Court • Kellog-Briand Pact (1928) • Nicaragua: 1926-33 • War Debt Issues

  26. The Election of 1928 • Al Smith (Democrat) • Herbert Hoover (Rpublican) • Hoover Wins, 22.4 to 15 million, 444 to 87 EV

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