1 / 7

The 1920s

The 1920s. United States History. Politics of the 1920s. Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Andrew Mellon Herbert Hoover Dawes Plan Washington Conference. Ohio Gang Teapot Dome Scandal Supply-Side Economics Isolationism Kellogg-Briand Pact. New Industrial America. Henry Ford

lindsey
Download Presentation

The 1920s

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The 1920s United States History

  2. Politics of the 1920s • Warren G. Harding • Calvin Coolidge • Andrew Mellon • Herbert Hoover • Dawes Plan • Washington Conference • Ohio Gang • Teapot Dome Scandal • Supply-Side Economics • Isolationism • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  3. New Industrial America • Henry Ford • Mass Production • Consumer Economy • Charles Lindbergh • Radio Industry • Mass Advertising • Managerial System • Welfare Capitalism • Open Shop • Consumer Credit

  4. Cultural Values • Sacco-Vanzetti • New Ku Klux Klan • Emergency Quota Act (1921) • National Origins Act (1924) • Roles of Women • Fundamentalism • Evolution v. Creationism • Scopes Trial • Prohibition • Speakeasies • Bootleggers

  5. Cultural Movements • Modern Art • Influence of Europe • Poets and Writers • Varying Styles • “Disillusionment w/ war” • “Society’s Superficiality” • “Ignorance of classes” • Talkies • The Jazz Singer (1927) • Songwriters • Tin Pan Alley • Radio Broadcasts • Role of Mass Media • Unification through shared ideas/attitudes • Sports • New Technologies

  6. African American Culture • Impact of Great Migration • Harlem Renaissance • Writers • Claude McKay (Proud Defiance/Hatred of Racism) • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston • Painting • Historical Roots • Shared Identity • Culture • Harlem Renaissance • Jazz & Blues • Dixieland blues and ragtime • Rhythms & Beats • Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington • Cotton Club • Theater • Apollo Theater • “Shuffle Along” (1921)

  7. African American Politics • Voting Impact • Oscar DePriest (Chicago) • NAACP • Battled against segregation • Marcus Garvey’s “Black Nationalism” • UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association • Black culture and tradition, separation from white society • Middle-class and Intellectuals distanced selves from Garvey • Alienated Harlem Renaissance figures as “weak-kneed” to white society

More Related