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S O A P S Model

S O A P S Model. The Roaring 20s. SOCIAL CHANGE =Fear of Communism. Nativism = WASP fears of a communist takeover of the US What caused a fear of communism in middle-class Americans? 1) Bolshevik Revolution 2) Russian Civil War 3) Union Movement in Media (yellow journalism).

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S O A P S Model

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  1. S O A P S Model

  2. The Roaring 20s

  3. SOCIAL CHANGE =Fear of Communism Nativism = WASP fears of a communist takeover of the US What caused a fear of communism in middle-class Americans? 1) Bolshevik Revolution 2) Russian Civil War 3) Union Movement in Media (yellow journalism)

  4. Political Change: Anti-Immigrant Feelings A. RED SCARE (1919-1921) • Palmer Raids • Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) created • Middle-class fears inflamed by the media B. Quota Acts 1. Middle-class WASP fears caused by the Red Scare. 2. Aimed at the “New Immigrants” 3. Literacy Tests Immigration Restrictions: • Emergency Quota Act • National Origins Act “Keep America for Americans”

  5. SOCIAL/POLITICAL: KKK, “100 % Americanism” • Americans react: exhibit racism towards all who are different after the “Red Scare”. • Ku Klux Klan = Membership Drives “Kill Koons, Kikes, and Katholics”

  6. Social Changes: Education, Technology and a Mass Culture • Pavlov conditioning and training in public schools. • Compulsory public education • Primary school • Secondary schools • Mass syndicated newspapers/magazines • Communication: Radio and phonograph

  7. Social Change: The Flapper Women: • more received college education late 1920 - more women in public office • Flappers: young woman who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s. - non traditional - rebellious youth - smoking, drinking in public - bob haircut - flashy, fashionable non fitting clothes - more assertive - did not seek acceptance Fad Died During the Great Depression!

  8. Political Change: Prohibition Prohibition: • an era supposedly free of alcohol which lead to social change • Amendment 18 • Amendment 21 Prohibition Terms: • Speakeasies • Bootlegging • Mafia

  9. POLITICAL/SOCIAL: Prohibition Organized Crime: “Scarface” Al Capone • Gang wars • $60 million a year industry • Bloody gang killings • Use of the automobile for transport • Lack of Enforcement

  10. St. Valentines Day Massacre

  11. ECONOMIC/SOCIAL CHANGE: Consumerism “Buy Now, Pay Later” /Superficial Prosperity Advertising

  12. ECONOMIC/SOCIAL CHANGE: Model T Ford • Automobiles gave young people (teenagers) and women more independence. • People could now live further from their jobs…leads to urban sprawl. • The automobile becomes a status symbol… everybody wanted one. • By the late 1920s, around 80 percent of all cars in the world were in the U.S.

  13. ECONOMIC CHANGE : Route 66 est. 1926 America’s Hwy. from Chicago to Los Angeles

  14. ECONOMIC CHANGES: Technology Improvements: Assembly Line Airplanes Radio Automobile Refrigerators Vacuum Cleaners Electric Ovens

  15. SOCIAL/ECONOMIC: Industry and Technology • Movies and Hollywood’s “Golden Age” - became a big leisure activity - The Jazz Singer first movie with sound (talkie)

  16. Social Change: Harlem Renaissance • A period of black pride in America during the 1920s. • Art • Literature Jazz Music: Foundation for modern music - Rock –n- roll - Rap - Hip hop

  17. JazzMusic 1. Started in New Orleans and Memphis 2. Blend of instruments with ragtime sound 3. Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith Duke Ellington

  18. Moving Forward • Scientific advancements improved production - reduced need for manual labor • 1928, Alexander Fleming, discovered Penicillin • Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity • Sigmund Freud explains the id, ego, and super ego of the human mind.

  19. Postwar Issues: 1920s How World War I affected America • Domestic Policy • Nativism swept America causing citizens to be suspicious of foreigners. • Women and minorities (Black Migration) lose jobs to returning soldiers • 18th and 19th Amendments ratified 4. Disillusionment Literature • Lost Generation • Debunkers 5. Harlem Renaissance 6. Automobile Culture, electric applicances, And installment plan. • Foreign Policy • Isolationism • Failed to Ratify the Treaty of Versailles

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