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Chapter 11: Review The Twenties

Chapter 11: Review The Twenties. 2. They followed a laissez-faire policy of not restricting business. They preferred to be umpires instead of guardians helping the public. Presidents should not actively lead. 3. Jazz Age Roaring Twenties Era of Wonderful Nonsense. 4.

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Chapter 11: Review The Twenties

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  1. Chapter 11: Review The Twenties

  2. 2. • They followed a laissez-faire policy of not restricting business. • They preferred to be umpires instead of guardians helping the public. • Presidents should not actively lead.

  3. 3. • Jazz Age • Roaring Twenties • Era of Wonderful Nonsense

  4. 4. • Moving assembly line moved materials quickly to the men where they could add parts which were delivered to their stations • Above average wages for employees (he paid up to $5.00 a day)

  5. 5. • Washington Naval Treaty (control Japan) • Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawed war) • U.S. followed an isolationist policy of avoiding other nations in order to avoid another war.

  6. 6. • Fear of communists • Cut back on immigration from central and eastern Europe. • Deported those suspected of being dangerous.

  7. 7. • Set a percentage of people allowed in from a country. • Southern and Eastern Europeans

  8. 8. • Two Italian anarchists arrested for burglary and robbery • Many were convinced that they were convicted and executed because of their political beliefs, not because of the evidence against them

  9. 9. • Short recession right after WWI ended • The country then experienced a time of prosperity as businesses expanded , workers had jobs, wages went up, and more products were produced • Farmers

  10. 10. • Jazz music (records on phonographs) • Nickelodeons or Movie Palaces • Talking movies began in 1927 with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer • Radio (KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first official radio station in 1920.

  11. 11. • Writers who believed Americans were obsessed with money and material things • People didn’t appreciate the arts • Many left the U.S. and relocated in Paris.

  12. 12. • Rebirth of black culture in literature and art • Helped unify African Americans by giving them more pride in their heritage • Looked at the pains and joys of being black in America

  13. 13. • African American leader who favored a black nation • Self-respect, economic power, and independence were the goals of his Negro Nationalism

  14. 14. • Spread to northern cities • Now targeted Catholics, Jews, and immigrants

  15. 15. • First solo nonstop across the Atlantic • First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

  16. 16. • Trial of Scopes, a teacher who read Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his class which violated the law. • Fundamentalism (religion) v. modernism (science) • Bryan – prosecution, for the Bible • Darrow – defense, for evolution

  17. 17. • Started by 18th Amendment when alcohol was illegal • Increased crime • Showed difference between urban and rural areas • Bootleggers – sold illegal alcohol • Speakeasies – illegal bars • Government agents • Most successful at breaking up bars

  18. 18. • Could vote • New job opportunities • More freedom from household and family duties • Divorce rates increased • Job discrimination and low wages were still a problem

  19. 19. • Teapot Dome over oil fields • Veterans’ Bureau over money for veterans’ hospital • Attorney General selling pardons, paroles, and covering up liquor violations

  20. 20. • Made people want the new products like refrigerators, radios, washing machines • Appealed to emotions and insecurities to get people to buy • Installment buying – put a little down and paid the rest in monthly installments • People now had more opportunities for entertainment and standard of living rose

  21. 21. • Money paid for war damages • Britain and France couldn’t pay their war debts to us because Germany couldn’t pay them • Under the Dawes Plan, we loaned money to Germany so they could pay reparations to them so they could pay us.

  22. 22. • Employers now gave workers paid vacations, health care, and higher wages. • There were fewer strikes and union membership dropped.

  23. 23. • Urban to suburbs (mainly due to the automobile) • Great Migration of African Americans from South to North

  24. 24. • Needed better education for the higher paying urban jobs which needed more math and science • Rural areas still relied on teaching the 3 Rs (reading, writing, arithmetic)

  25. Social Effects • Deal with people and relationships • Red Scare • Great Migration • Racial Tensions • Harlem Renaissance • Rural/urban split • Increased educational opportunities

  26. Political Effects • 18th Amendment (which also had social effect – more crime) • 19th Amendment (which also had social effect – equality) • Immigration restrictions (quotas) • Sacco and Vanzetti conviction • Harding scandals • Ohio Gang

  27. Economic Effects • Consumer revolution • Installment buying • Prosperity • Bull market • Advertising became big business • Welfare capitalism

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