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Unit 6 Images. Early 1900 cartoons and pictures, the progressives through the Jazz age. Ida Tarbell. Ida Tarbell.
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Unit 6 Images Early 1900 cartoons and pictures, the progressives through the Jazz age
Ida Tarbell • Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless ... efficiency of organization.
Cosmopolitan • McClures • Colliers • Investigative Journals that uncovered corruption, bribery and scandals for the ‘people’
Coined by TR • The term was not a positive one • TR was a progressive but didn’t want to upset the corporate control of the economy
City Life • Immigrants tended to flock to poor, urban centers in New York and Chicago • The areas were dirty, dark and poverty stricken • Slum lords did little to keep up the apartments and often made great profits renting to these people
Holding CompaniesParent companies whose sole purpose is to own stock in another company, influences the board of directors and helps steer the course of economic direction.
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.Robert La Follette
Hiram Johnson I do not by any means believe the initiative, the referendum, and the recall are the panacea for all our political ills, yet they do give to the electorate the power of action when desired, and they do place in the hands of the people the means by which they may protect themselves. Hiram Johnson
Popular Government THE WAR CHANT “They gotta keep kicking my dog around.” Herbert Johnson
Republicans SplitTaft and TRInsurgents demand tariff reform, income tax, direct election of senators, stricter regulation of railroads…more progressive
Public Opinion was for the League of Nations. However, that was not strong enough to push it through the Senate, seen here as a running back.
Teapot Dome Scandal- black mark on Harding’s administration, evidence of corruption for leasing oil lands to companies and politicians taking payments for such acts.
Hollywood emerges: First Full Length Classic Birth of a Nationshowcases epic battle scenes and the Ku Klux Klan saving the South from the evil of Reconstruction.
Fashion of the 20s Illustration for “The Camp Leader” by Earl Reed Silvers. St. Nicholas. Volume 50, No. 10 (August 1923), 1022.
Jazz Emerges: tricky syncopation and seductive dancing combine to unleash a wave of sexual liberation King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, early 1920s
The early legends Fats Waller Armstrong Jelly Roll
