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The New Era: The Roaring 20’s

The New Era: The Roaring 20’s. Take Five….

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The New Era: The Roaring 20’s

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  1. The New Era: The Roaring 20’s

  2. Take Five… • In the 1920s, the United States experienced an economic boom due to, among other things,  A) the mobilization of the economy for war.  B) increased government restrictions on big business.  C) installment buying and an unregulated stock market.  D) the expansion of civil rights to women and minorities.

  3. Economic Boom New or Improved Technologies Auto industry Frederick Taylor Ford and GM

  4. Economic Boom The invention of the Radio Mass production Buying on time

  5. Economic boom Commercial Aviation Wright Brothers Charles Lindbergh

  6. Lucky Lindy

  7. Spirit of St. Louis

  8. Economic boom Early computers Genetic research Gregor Mendel Thomas Hunt Morgan

  9. Thomas Hunt Morgan

  10. Plight of the Workers Henry Ford “welfare capitalism” Unionization in the 1920’s The “American Plan” Working women and minorities “pink-collar” jobs minorities and unions Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

  11. A. Philip Randolph

  12. Plight of the Workers (con’t) Farmers Increased technology Supply & demand McNary-Haugan Bill

  13. New Consumerism Mass production Advertising Bruce Barton Mass communication Mass circulation magazines Movies “Talkies” are introduced The Jazz Singer

  14. Bruce Barton

  15. Radio broadcasting Radio KDKA National Broadcasting Co.

  16. KDKA Radio

  17. The New Professional Woman John B. Watson Margaret Sanger National women’s party Alice Paul ERA Sheppard-Towner Act

  18. Margaret Sanger

  19. Alice Paul

  20. Arts and Literature “Debunkers” H.L. Mercken Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald Earnest Hemingway Harlem Renaissance Tin Pan Alley Langston Hughes “Duke” Ellington Billie Holiday Bessie Smith Irving Berlin The Jazz Age Flappers

  21. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  22. Ernest Hemingway

  23. 1920’s jazz age… Billie Holiday Duke Ellington Irving Berlin Bessie Smith

  24. James Langston Hughes

  25. The Flapper

  26. Harlem Renaissance • Literary movement • “problem of being black in a white culture” • Social movement • Marcus Garvey • United Negro Improvement Association • Back to Africa movement • Mail fraud—deportment

  27. Take Five… • Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. • The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was repealed because  A) the President vetoed the Amendment.  B) women demanded the right to suffrage.  C) the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.  D) Congress and the states agreed to repeal it.

  28. Traditional values vs. Modern culture Prohibition Ushering in the Gangster Era Johnny Torrio (The Fox) Al Capone “Public Enemy #1” “Big Bill Thompson” "We'll not only reopen places these people have closed, but we'll open 10,000 new ones (speakeasies). 1927 in Chicago

  29. Al Capone

  30. Al Capone’s “Mug-shot” 1931

  31. “Baby Face” Nelson • * Dismissed by Al Capone for being “too violent” • Renamed the FBI’s “new Public Enemy #1” • Shot and killed by FBI when he was only 26

  32. Bugsy Moran • The only serious gangster challenge to Al Capone • Attempted to have Capone killed • Believe his gang superior—b/c did not have prostitutes • Died of cancer in prison in 1957 in a pauper’s grave just outside of the prison

  33. So….why are the gangsters not putting up a fight? • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

  34. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  35. Take Five…for Pat Points… What conflicts emerged between those with traditional values and those with new modern values? Give 3 examples.

  36. Nativism New immigration restrictions Quota system The National Origins Act of 1924 Nativism Rebirth of the KKK Leo Frank D.W. Griffith The Birth of a Nation

  37. Leo Frank

  38. Mary Phagan

  39. Take Five Which of these periods saw the smallest overall population increase?  A) 1900-1904  B) 1905-1909  C) 1910-1914  D) 1915-1919

  40. Religious Modernists vs. Fundamentalists Creation vs. Evolution Scopes “Monkey” Trial

  41. Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan

  42. Monkey Business…

  43. The Great “Bull” Market • Wild speculation in the Stock market • Buying stocks “on-margin” • Wildcats schemes • Selling under-water lots in Florida devastated by hurricanes and advertised as “soothing tropical winds” • Secretary of the Treasury-Mellon • Reduced the national debt by $10 million • “Spare the rich” policies • High taxes discouraged business • Eliminating the excess-profits taxes, gift taxes, and income taxes for the rich

  44. Democratic Party Al Smith William McAdoo John Davis

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