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The Roaring 20’s

The Roaring 20’s. An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict. 1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age" A period of great change in American Society - modern America is born at this time

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The Roaring 20’s

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  1. The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict

  2. 1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age" • A period of great change in American Society - modern America is born at this time • For first time the census reflected an urban society - people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard of living

  3. Ageof Prosperity • Economic expansion • Mass Production • Assembly Line • Age of the Automobile • Ailing Agriculture…

  4. An agri. depression in early 1920's contributed to this urban migration • U.S. farmers lost agri. markets in postwar Europe • At same time agri. efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed • Farming becomes no longer prosperous, and bankers called in the farm loans due (farms repossessed) • American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society

  5. Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty • Sharecropping kept them in de facto slavery • 1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop • White landowners went bankrupt & forced blacks off their land

  6. Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettos began to form, (i.e. Harlem) • Within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished • Both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted

  7. Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association • Believed in Black pride • Advocated racial segregation b/c of Black superiority • Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa • He purchased a ship to start the Black Star line • Attracted many “shady” investments: gov't eventually charged him with w/fraud • He was found guilty and deported to Jamaica, but his organization continued to exist

  8. Republican Power • President Harding • Elected 1920 • Legacy of Scandals • “Teapot Dome” • Died in office

  9. President Coolidge“The business of America is business.” • Fordney-McCumber Tariff • Smoot-Hawley Tariff • No help for farmers • Foreign Policy

  10. Consumer Economy

  11. Culture of the Roaring 20’s Radio KDKA Pittsburgh GE, Westinghouse,& RCA form NBC Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin “Talkies” The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”

  12. Celebrities Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis Jack Dempsey

  13. The 20’s isThe Jazz Age • The Flappers • make up • cigarettes • short skirts Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington

  14. 1920's also brought about great changes for women... • 1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the vote • More women began working outside the home • More women went to college and clamoured to join the professions • Women didn't want to sacrifice their wartime gains - amounted to a social revolt • Characterized by the FLAPPER/ "new woman" • (bobbed hair, short dresses, smoked in public...)

  15. Anti-immigrant National Origins Act Discrimination Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Italian immigrants Unfair trial A Society in Conflict

  16. Shift in immigration: the point of origin had shifted to S & E Europe and new religions appeared: Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic • N. European immigrants of early 19c. feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values • Resurgence of NATIVISM • Nativists wanted Congress to restrict immigration, leading to a quota system that favoured N. areas of Europe • Fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm. post-Bolshevik Rev.) • Because communism advocated a int'l revolution by the proletariat/workers, fear that this ideology could find its way into the U.S. was prevalent.

  17. By this time, Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke • Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage • He had J. Edgar Hoover (FBI) round up suspected radicals, many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)

  18. The Ku Klux Klan Great increase In power Anti-black Anti-immigrant Anti-Semitic Anti-Catholic Anti-women’s suffrage Anti-bootleggers

  19. Scopes “Monkey” Trial Evolution vs. Creationism Science vs. Religion Dayton, Tennessee Famous Lawyers John Scopes High School Biology teacher

  20. Prohibition 18th Amendment Volstead Act Gangsters Untouchables Al Capone

  21. PROHIBITION - on manuf. and sale of alcohol • Adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT • An outgrowth of the longtime temperance movement • In WWI, temperance became a patriotic mvmt. - drunkenness caused low productivity & inefficiency, and alcohol was needed to treat the wounded • Problems: it was a difficult law to enforce... Led to organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers were on the rise • Al Capone virtually controlled all of Chicago’s illegal activities during this period - capitalism at its zenith… • Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w/ the 21st Amendment • Forced organized crime to pursue other interests…

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