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Explore the Election of 1920, Teapot Dome scandal, civil unrest, impact of automobile, Prohibition, Scopes Trial, Harlem Renaissance, and Immigration restrictions in the vibrant era of the 1920s.
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Elections and scandals • Election of 1920 Warren G. Harding – Republican- promises a “return to normalcy” war was over. Harding wins the election and appoints his friends to his cabinet (Ohio gang) Teapot dome scandal-secretary of the interior albert fall leased government oil rich land to private companies and pocketed the money. Very illegal.
Elections and scandals • Harding dies-Calvin Coolidge becomes president. Fired the Ohio gang. Coolidge re-elected in 1924 and 1928. • using the handout, answer the questions on your own paper about the teapot dome scandal.
Day 2 • After the war: civil unrest African-americans were facing discrimination after the war in the north, in jobs, housing, and even beaches. Ku Klux Klan-organized after the civil war and reorganized in the 1920s-they targeted African-americans, catholics, immigrants, jews, and alcoholics
New method of production: Assembly line-model t-made production faster and reduced the prices of cars. Why would the assembly line reduce the price of cars?
Impact of the automobile • Gas stations • Drive-in restaurants • Billboards • Parking lots • Street lights • suburbs • Oil industry • Rubber industry • Paint industry • Steel industry • Glass industry • Built miles of road
A jazz singer • Using the timeline, notes, and text answer the questions about the timeline on your own paper. • The first talking movie was the jazz singer starring al Jolson.
Famous people of the 1920s • Using your textbook, answer the work sheet about the famous people of the 1920s. Tell what they did and the significance ( why was it important) of their achievement.
Day 3 • PROHIBITION-Volstead Act – banning of alcohol use • 18th amendment- forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United states
Day 3 • Crime and prohibition • Illegal bars were speakeasies; making transporting, or buying illegal liquor was bootlegging; Al Capone was the “king of bootlegging” in the US in the 1920s. • 21st amendment-repeal prohibition (1933) why do you think this happened in 1933?
Day 4 • Scopes Trial: john t. scopes was a biology teacher who was arrested for teaching evolution in class; a Tennessee law prohibited the teaching of evolution; scopes was found guilty and fined $100; the case was really about the constitutionality of the law; known by some people as the “monkey” trial.
Day 4-Harlem Renaissance • Harlem was known as the “black capital” of the us after the great migration • Period of “rebirth” in African-American art, literature, music, etc.
Look at the picture, read the excerpt, and answer the question. • . The Cotton Club was a segregated restaurant and club, yet greatest African American entertainers of the era performed there. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald to name a few. " the club enforced a whites-only policy for customers and a 2.50 cover charge to keep out the “undeserving poor". What laws allowed this to happen?
19th amendment • A constitutional amendment that made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote purely because of that person’s sex or gender.
Marcus Garvey-Universal Negro Improvement Association • Garvey said white society would never treat African-Americans equally; therefore, African-americans should stop trying to win white society’s approval. He established a steamboat company to take 4 million people back to Africa. Company went bankrupt, garvey was convicted of fraud and went to prison. He was later deported.
Day 5 bellringer “In our first assembling we simply started to put the car together at a spot and brought the parts as they were needed in exactly the same way that one business builds a house….The first step forward in an assembly line came when we began taking the work to the men instead of the men to the work…The net result of this application of these principles is the necessity for thought on the part of the workers…” Who is the author of this quote and what was this method applied to during the 1920’s? A. Sacco and Vanzetti/Shoe Production B. Henry Ford/Car Production C. Wright Brothers/Airplane Production d. Charles Lindbergh/Airplane Production
Immigration restrictions • The title to this cartoon is “the only way to handle it.” What is uncle Sam handling? • Why is the funnel so loaded at the top and yet very few people are coming out the end? • What did the 3% in uncle Sam's hand represent?
Immigration restrictions • Immigrants would take away jobs and had radical views. • 1921, 1924, & 1925 immigration quotas established.
Prosperity and productivity • New technology/appliances • Washing machine • Sewing machine • Cake mixer • Food grinders • phonographs • The republicans “pro-business” attitude and the abundance of energy resources led to the prosperity of the 1920’s.
New technology/appliances Middle-stove and oven Bottom left-washing machine Top right-refrigerator
Scientific management • Idea that every kind of work could be broken down into a series of smaller tasks; this practice would make workers more efficient; workers were observed and rates of production were set; workers were expected to meet these production expectations or quotas.
