Transportation, Communication, Inventions

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Transportation, Communication, Inventions

• Automobile
• Oldsmobile 1902
• Ford 1914
• Telephone
• Bell's Model 102 - 1900
• Wrights Plane 1903
• Consumer Radios 1916 (Marconi 1895)
• Color Photography 1907
• Talking Movie 1910
• Television Set 1927

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Prohibition

• Prohibition
• 18th Amendment, Jan. 29,1919, Volstead Act
• A bipartisan effort, Progressives
• Manufacture, sale, transport of alcohol illegal
  in the US
• Repealed by 21st Amendment in Dec. 1933

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The Great Migration

• Over 1 million African-Americans moved from the
  rural South to industrial cities in the North
• By 1900, 90 of blacks still lived in former
  slave-holding states, seeking a better life up
  North
• Black population rose 20 in the North between
  1910-1930
• Reasons
• Escaping Jim Crow Laws
• Boll weevil infestation late 1910s
• Expansion of war industries more jobs in
  northern factories
• Worker shortages in the North due to limits on
  immigration during World War I and the
  Immigration Act of 1924
• Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
• Post-war economic boom afforded more
  opportunities for black workers

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The Depression

• Stock Market Crash October 29, 1929
• Causes
• Deflation led to a fall in asset and commodity
  prices
• Drops in credit and demand
• Disruption of trade
• Keynes explanation
• Monetarists explanation
• Destabilization of the gold standard
• Structural issues of banking
• Recovery
• Government spending
• Rearmament for World War II

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The New Deal

• Expanded the federal government to help the
  nation recover from the Depression
• Relief, Recovery, Reform
• New agencies
• Civilian Conservation Corps gave men jobs in
  parks, roads
• Public Works Administration jobs in public
  works
• Tennessee Valley Authority electricity project,
  more jobs, government ownership of means of
  production
• Farm Security Administration large government
  owned farms to help farmers recover from rural
  poverty
• National Industrial Recovery Act created
  avenues for economic planning and federal action
• Wagner Act/ National Labor Relations Act (NLRB)
  strengthened workers ability to collectively
  bargain

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The Harlem Renaissance

• African-American response to vast changes in mass
  culture due to industrialization, Great
  Migration, and celebration of their heritage.
• Great Figures
• Langston Hughes poet, novelist, playwright,
  short story writer, columnist
• Listen to and read I, Too
• Zora Neale Hurston author of Their Eyes Were
  Watching God
• See a picture of Hurston
• Duke Ellington jazz composer and musician
• Listen to his music
• Aaron Douglas artist, Power Plant ?

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Art, Music, Literature

• Art
• Naturalist, Realist, Romantic, Modern
• American Gothic by Grant Wood, 1930
• Precisionists Georgia OKeefe
• A gallery of her work
• Music
• Aaron Copland Piano Variations 1930
• George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 1924
• Literature
• T.S. Eliot poet, Prufrock and other
  Observations 1917
• F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 1925
• William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 1929
• Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1926