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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties. Roaring Twenties. Women had right to vote Fashion more liberal Alcohol was banned Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh Movies Jazz. Decade of Prosperity and Play. Unemployment was low 60% of wealth with just a few families

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The Roaring Twenties

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  1. The Roaring Twenties

  2. Roaring Twenties • Women had right to vote • Fashion more liberal • Alcohol was banned • Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh • Movies • Jazz

  3. Decade of Prosperity and Play • Unemployment was low • 60% of wealth with just a few families • 27,500 wealthiest had as much as 12 million poorest

  4. Desire to return to normalcy but: High prices Increased demand for goods Wages low Labor strikes; Boston Police, steel workers, (both unsuccessful)

  5. Civil Unrest • Red Scare • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • Palmer Raids • Sacco - Vanzetti Case

  6. ELECTION of 1920 • Republican • Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge • “Return to Normalcy” • Isolationism, Laissez -faire • Landslide victory for Republicans

  7. Warren G.Harding1921-1923 • Popular • Wife , Florence King DeWolfe ran his campaign • Golfed, Played poker, had a mistress • Poor judge of character

  8. Warren G. Harding • Teapot Dome Scandal • Govt. oil reserves sold for business interests • Sec. of Interior Albert Fall • Naval Limitation Treaty • Immigration Legislation

  9. Harding • “I have no trouble with my enemies, but my friends keep me walking the floor at night” • Many took bribes, many caught

  10. POLITICAL SCANDALS • Teapot Dome Scandal • Albert Falls: oil rich public lands set aside for the Navy • Secretly leased to oil companies for cash and cattle

  11. POST WAR ECONOMY • Assembly line: (Henry Ford) increases productivity by 40% • Corporate mergers • Oligopolies: Fix prices, lead to chain stores • Advertising • Installment-buying plans

  12. ORGANIZED LABOR • Organized labor membership falls • Managers offer benefit plans • Wages rise slowly

  13. POST WAR ECONOMY • Inflation • Caused by wartime shortages • 1919 - 3,600 strikes • Boston Police Strike • Steel and Coal Strikes

  14. LABOR under HARDING • American Plan • UnAmerican to join a Union to get a job • Employees offered benefits, wage increases, stock options to show unions were unnecessary • Harding pardoned many Union leaders

  15. Gov. Calvin Coolidge • “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone,anytime, anywhere!”

  16. CALVIN COOLIDGE • 1923-1929 • Republican • VP: Charles Dawes • “Silent Cal” • “Business of America is Business”

  17. Prohibition

  18. Prohibition • Ban on Alcohol • Eighteenth Amendment • Bootlegging

  19. PROHIBITION • Volstead Act: Enforce • Criminal acts • 1933 – 21st Amendment to repeal

  20. SPEAKEASIES

  21. Moonshiners • Made illegal alcohol from grain • Shipped from Ireland Canada • Speedboats delivered liquor faster than Coast Guard ships

  22. Souped up cars out ran government agents • Early beginnings of NASCAR • Speakeasies • Illegal clubs

  23. Criminal Gangs • Al Capone • Gang violence

  24. Organized Crime • Al Capone • Racketeers • Made businesses pay “protection money

  25. Finally convicted on White Collar crime not violent crime • Income Tax evasion landed Capone in jail

  26. African American Migration • Reached millions • Racial Prejudice everywhere • Marcus Garvey • W.E.B. Dubois • KKK • Immigration laws: Quota System

  27. SOCIAL VALUES • Women • Divorce: 1-17 ; 1-6; now 1-2 • Religion; suffered decline • Scopes – Monkey Trial • Darwin v Creation • Fundamentalism

  28. SOCIAL VALUES • Fundamentalism • Bible contained no contradictions or errors • Supported Bible is literally true • Every story actually took place as written

  29. SOCIAL VALUES • Scopes Trial • Evolution vs. Fundamentalist • Tennessee passed • Illegal to teach Evolution

  30. SOCIAL VALUES • John T. Scopes challenged law • Trial combatants • William Jennings Bryan • Clarence Darrow

  31. SOCIAL CHANGES • Civil Rights • Riots • 25 cities summer of 1919 • Chicago hard hit • Rock fight

  32. SOCIAL CHANGES • 17 year old African American was struck and killed while swimming • Several days of rioting broke out

  33. SOCIAL CHANGES • Revival of KKK • Colonel William J. Simmons revived • Not only in South • Indiana had lad the largest membership

  34. SOCIAL CHANGES • 4 million members • African Americans, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants, all were victims • 1925 leader of Indiana Klan • Was sent to prison

  35. Youth Culture • Flappers

  36. SPORTS • Baseball • Football • Boxing • Tennis

  37. FAMOUS PEOPLE • Heroes • Lucky Lindy • First to fly across Atlantic solo • Became National hero • Remained modest thus increasing popularity

  38. FAMOUS PEOPLE • Amelia Earhart • first woman to fly solo across Atlantic • First successful flight from Hawaii to California

  39. CULTURAL CREATIVITY • Literature • Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway

  40. HARLEM RENAISSANCE • Harlem Renaissance • Grew from 50,000 to 200,000 in 16 years • Literature and music of African Americans

  41. NAACP • James Weldon Johnson • Alain Locke The New Negro • African American Culture • Langston Hughes • Joys and difficulties of being American and black

  42. College Life • Enrollment tripled • New target group

  43. Leisure Fun and fads • Dance Marathons

  44. Beauty Contests- Miss America Pageant • Pole Sitting

  45. Music & Dance • Berlin, Gershwin, Porter • Jazz: Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington • Flappers

  46. Theaters rose from 500 in 1910 to 22,500 in 1930 • Elaborate design ornate lobbies balconies place to go • 125,000 million people in the United States

  47. Magazines and Newspapers • More readers less independent newspapers • Tabloids instead of Hard News

  48. Magazines • Saturday Evening Post • Readers Digest • Time • Ladies Home Journal

  49. Jazz Age • African American music of the south • Radio popularized Jazz Jazz clubs allowed musicians to play

  50. Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington • Benny Goodman • Charleston became popular

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