The Roaring Twenties

1. The Roaring Twenties

2. Politics and Prosperity • Recession: an economic slump • The U.S went into a recession because the factories stopped turning out war materials • Warren G. Harding takes office in 1920 • The Ohio Gang: Harding’s cabinet consisted of his old friends—getting the name “Ohio gang”

3. Politics and Prosperity • Teapot Dome Scandal • Sec. of Interior Albert Fall was bribed by 2 oil executives • Fall secretly leased them gov’t land in California and @ Teapot Dome, Wyoming • Coolidge takes office • Industry booms • Most Americans incomes rose • Sales of consumer goods rose

4. Politics and Prosperity New ways: • Installment buying-buying goods on credit, paying over time • Buying on Margin: purchasing a stock for just 10% down payment of the price of the stock • Ex: Stock costs $10, the investor would put down $1, down the road the person would have to pay the remaining balance • Bull Market: increase stock trading and rising stock prices

5. Politics and Prosperity Foreign affairs: • Communism: economic system in which all the wealth and property is owned by the community—this is being implemented by Lenin in Russia, but the government is controlling everything, not the community • Disarmament: reduction of weapons and forces • Kellogg-Briand Pact: treaty outlawed war

6. New Ways of Life Ban on Alcohol: • 18th amendment • Bootleggers • Speakeasies • Rise of organize crime=mob and gangsters New rights for women • 19th amendment gave women the right to vote • League of Women voters

7. New Ways of Life • ERA-equal rights amendment: rights shall not be denied based on gender • Women’s work: women had new opportunities at home and at work The Car: • Henry Ford and the assembly line • Made cars more affordable

8. New Ways of Life The Car: • Economic effects: • Tourism, travel and more • Suburbs created • Created many jobs • Social effects • Suburbs-community located outside the city • The car allowed for the development of the suburbs

9. New Ways of Life Mass culture • A National culture created by: cars, music, radio, fads, and more • Radio • Families would gather around after dinner • News and entertainment • Movies • Charlie Chaplin • Silent movies

10. The Jazz Age Era of Changing Fashions: • Fad: activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short amount of time • Flappers: young women that rebelled against traditional ways of thinking • Wore dresses short • Hair bobbed • Red lipstick

11. The Jazz Age • Jazz: combined West African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals and European harmonies • Louis Armstrong • Writers: • Fitzgerald • Hemmingway

12. The Jazz Age Harlem Renaissance • Rebirth of African American culture • Large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem Writers • Langston Hughes: poet, expressing in poetry the life of African Americans of the 1920’s

13. Trouble below the Surface Red Scare • Fear of communism spreading through America • Anarchists-people who opposed organized government

14. Trouble below the Surface Sacco and Vanzetti • Two Italian immigrants in Massachusetts were arrested for murder • Admitted anarchists • Limited evidence against them • Convicted and put to death

15. Trouble below the Surface Limiting Immigration • Nativism---anti-foreigners • Emergency Quota act-set up a quota system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter

16. Trouble below the Surface Scopes Trial • Clash between old and new values • Evolution v. Religion • John Scopes a Biology teach in Ohio taught evolution and was arrested • Scopes was convicted and fined

17. Trouble below the Surface Racism • 1915 rebirth of the KKK • Marcus Garvey-Universal Negro Improvement Association