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Chapter 23. Coping with Change 1920-1929. Readings. You must read the entire chapter and prepare for reading check quizes. Pp. 697-706 Pp. 706-723 Pp. 723-726. A New Economic Order. Booming Business, Ailing Agriculture. Henry Ford 1927 Model A Fordism Assembly line process.
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Chapter 23 Coping with Change 1920-1929
Readings • You must read the entire chapter and prepare for reading check quizes. • Pp. 697-706 • Pp. 706-723 • Pp. 723-726
Booming Business, Ailing Agriculture • Henry Ford • 1927 Model A • Fordism • Assembly line process By 1930 100 corporations controlled ½ the US wealth.
Figure 23.3: The Automobile Age: Passenger Cars Registered in the United States, 1900–1992
New Modes of Producing, Managing, and Selling • Advertisements • Radio • Billboards • Newspaper • Magazine • $2 Billion
Literature • Your Money’s Worth • Consumer Research Bulletin • The Man Nobody Knows
Struggling Labor Unions in a Business Age • Unions often smeared with “Communist” label. • Black excluded by most unions
Standpat Politics in a Decade of Change • Harding’s Cabinet • Henry C. Wallace • Charles Evans Hughes • Andrew Mellon • Herbert Hoover • Harry Daugherty • Albert Fall • Charles Forbes
The Evolving Presidency: Scandals and Public-Relations Manipulation
Calvin Coolidge • Warren Harding • “Silent Cal” • Wife, “What did the preacher preach on?” • Coolidge, “Sin” • Wife, “What did he say about sin?” • Coolidge, “He was against it!”
Silent “Cal” • “The business of America is business.”
Republican Policy Making in a Pro-business Era • McNary-Haugen Bill
Independent Internationalism • Washington Naval Arms Conference
Progressive Stirrings, Democratic Party Divisions • Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) • Ku Klux Klan • Alfred E. Smith
Prohibition Colonel L.B. Musgrove, Prohibition Party Member
Figure 23.2: The Urban and Rural Population of the United States, 1900–2000
Figure 23.4: The African-American Urban Population, 1880–1960 (in millions)
Celebrity Culture • Charles Lindbergh
The Jazz Age and Postwar Crisis of Values • Flappers
Alienated Writers • H.L. Mencken