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The Roaring Twenties. A Booming Economy. Efficiency and Power Automotive Industry: 5 million/year by 1929, 26 million autos. Chemistry and Avionics Radio and Film: 732 Radio Stations: 1927 20,000 theatres sell 100 million tickets a week. Corporate Measures. Consolidation: Oligopolies
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A Booming Economy • Efficiency and Power • Automotive Industry: 5 million/year by 1929, 26 million autos. • Chemistry and Avionics • Radio and Film: • 732 Radio Stations: 1927 • 20,000 theatres sell 100 million tickets a week
Corporate Measures • Consolidation: Oligopolies • The Open Shop • Welfare Capitalism • Union Decline • Wage Problems • Sick Industries
Warren G. Harding (1920-3) • New Peace Treaty • Disarmament • Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 • Working for Business • Corruption: • Albert Fall--Teapot Dome Scandal • James Daughterty--AG for Sale
Calvin Coolidge (1923-8) • Fiddling While Rome Burns • Silent Cal • Pro-Business President • Public Finance • Farmers
Cities and Suburbs • Urban Growth • Great Migration • Barrios • Suburbs
The Jazz Age • Enjoyment of Prosperity + Regrets • The Flapper • Reaction to World War I -- The Lost Generation from Steinbeck to Hemingway • Freud • Small Town Life
Harlem Renaissance • Twenties Prosperity in the Cities • Race Capital: Harlem • Art and Music • Depression
A. Phillip Randolph • Writer for The Messenger in Harlem • Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925) • Forced defense jobs to stop boycotting blacks (1941) • Organizes March on Washington (1963)
Marcus Garvey • Jamaican leader of Pan-Africanism • Universal Negro Improvement Association (1919-27), 30 branches in US, 500,000 members • Black Star Line (1919) • Deported for Mail Fraud
Entertainment • Jazz • Radio • Silent Movies • Professional Sports
Urban/Rural Conflict • Nativism--National Origins Act of 1924 • The Klu Klux Klan Returns • Prohibition • Failure • Organized Crime • Successes • Post-Repeal
Fundamentalism • Pentacostals • Prohibition • Immorality of the Cities • Literal Interpretation of the Bible • The Scopes Trial
Diplomacy, 1921-9 • Washington Naval Conference • Five Powers Pact • Four Powers Pact • Nine Powers Pact • World Court • Kellog-Briand Pact (1928) • Nicaragua: 1926-33 • War Debt Issues
The Election of 1928 • Al Smith (Democrat) • Herbert Hoover (Rpublican) • Hoover Wins, 22.4 to 15 million, 444 to 87 EV