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America in the “Roaring 1920s”: Economic Triumph and Cultural Tensions

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America in the “Roaring 1920s”: Economic Triumph and Cultural Tensions

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  1. America in the “Roaring 1920s”: Economic Triumph and Cultural Tensions

  2. Join this Group? For Christian Values Individualism Liberty Justice Education Patriotism Brotherhood Nationalism Representative Government Against Godlessness Dictatorships Anarchy Communism Fascism Nazism Internationalism And all other Anti-Americanisms
  3. The Klan in the 1920s
  4. If We Must Die-Claude McKay If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
  5. Response to Racism/Nativism Birth of a Nation Within our Gates
  6. 1919 Turning Point“Red Summer” 19th Amendment Treaty of Versailles and 14 Points rejected. Prohibition begins Solders return looking for work. Labor strikes Race Riots Tulsa Chicago Palmer Raids Rescission (19210 Farmers lose Europe markets
  7. The Red Scare 1917 Russian Revolution America fears Communist Anarchist Immigrants Palmer Raids Bomb outside US AG Mitchel Palmer + other attacks 4,000 suspects rounded up J. Edgar Hoover lead raids 600 immigrants deported Sacco & Vanzetti Convicted of murder during a robbery. Thought the robbery was to gain funds for anarchist. Executed in 1927, despite world-wide protest for their released Conviction and execution were thought to be due to anti-immigrant bias

  8. 3 Republican PresidentsHardingCoolidge HooverPro-BusinessLaissez-faireLimited GovernmentIsolationism

  9. Harding 1921-1923 “Return to Normalcy” High tariffs Low income tax Restrict Immigration Washington Naval Conference Arms reduction Ohio Gang Personal friends to cabinet who were dishonest Teapot Dome & other Scandals
  10. Coolidge 1923-1929 “Silent Cal” “The Business of America is Business”
  11. Hoover 1929-1933 “Rugged Individualism” Individuals, given equal opportunities can succeed. Government interference in business would undermine prosperity
  12. Rising Wages for American Workers
  13. New Goods for the “Average” American Henry Ford’s Model T
  14. Production Assembly line Skilled workers no longer needed
  15. The Radio and Electrical Appliances
  16. New Temptations to Buy 1. Easy Credit and Buying “on Margin”
  17. The Birth of Modern Advertising
  18. Speculation/Uneven Prosperity Speculation Uneven Prosperity Wealth was concentrated at the top of the highest income levels. Many Americans in poverty Farmers Overproduction Railroads Textile workers Foreign competition Minority Groups Purchase of an item not for personal use, but to sell it for a profit in the future. 1920s stock speculation & Real Estate
  19. 5 Cultural Tensions Alcohol: Prohibition v. Personal Choice
  20. Women: Family Values v. Flappers & Female Independence
  21. C. Explaining the World: Science v. Religion (The Scopes Trial)
  22. The Scopes Trial
  23. Eugenics & Social Darwinism Superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon Race” Northern European Male Anti-Immigrant Eastern and Southern Europe Reduce inferior races by preventing mentally ill from having children Forced sterilizations Segregation Laws Marriage restrictions
  24. New Restrictions on Immigration
  25. The Immigration Act of 1924
  26. Immigration Acts of 19211924 & 1929 Keep out immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Quotas for each nation Favored Great Britain Ireland Germany Nativist & Anti-Catholic feelings
  27. Tin Pan Alley Music Publishing Song-writing Blues Jazz Ragtime Sheet music Vaudeville shows
  28. Lost Generation WWI left brutal scars on young adults Writers protested the materialism of the 1920s Some moved to Paris F. Scot Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis Ernest Hemingway
  29. Opportunities and Oppression for African-Americans “New Negro” http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/greenbook.html
  30. Marcus GarveyCapitalism/Nationalism African American soldiers in WWI witnessed a more tolerant Europe. Spoke out against racism Racial unity through self help Disillusionment from the Great Migration Advocated Back to Africa Movement (Liberia)
  31. W.E.B. Du BoisCapitalism NAACP “The Crisis” Full Civil Rights and Political Representation. Elite of ‘Talented Tenth.’ The Soul of Black Folks
  32. A. Phillip RandolphSocialist Head of Railroad Porter’s Union. The Messenger Opposed US involvement in WW1 March on Washington 1963
  33. Harlem Renaissance Awakening of African American Culture. Visual Arts Poems Music Dance Theater Optimistic Pride Celebration of being African American Langston Hughes Alain Locke Zora Neale Hurston Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Bessie Smith
  34. POP Culture
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