The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties
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The Russian Revolution

• Czar Nicholas II loses power for entering WWI
• Vladimir Lenin leads Bolsheviks
• Civil War
• Reds (Bolsheviks) vs. Whites (landowners, army
  leaders)
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
• Govt controls all land and property
• 1 political party
• Individuals had no rights
• Try to spread Communism around the world

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The Red Scare

• Schenck v. U.S. (1919)
• Charles Schenck convicted of breaking the
  Espionage Act
• The Palmer Raids
• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
• Target Communists, socialists, and anarchists
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Italian immigrants convicted of murder
• Conviction was because of being immigrants
• 1927, Executed

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Labor Strikes

• Strikes in 1919 and 1920 blamed on Communists
• The Boston Police Strike
• Calvin Coolidge
• Steel and Coal Strike
• Steel industry used red scare
• United Mine Workers of Americas strike put down
  by Attorney General Palmer

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Republican Leadership

• Republicans control all three branches from 1921
  to 1933
• The Harding Presidency
• Return to normalcy
• Favored business (Andrew Mellon) very high
  tariff but Europe retaliated
• Ohio Gang corrupt advisors
• Isolationism -Stayed out of League of Nations
• Limiting Immigration
• Nativist fears
• Restricted immigration and quotas
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Alfred Fall leases government land for oil
  drilling

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Republican Leadership

• The Coolidge Presidency (Silent Cal)
• Restored confidence
• Laissez Faire
• Continued Isolationism
• Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war
• Dawes Plan loans to Germany
• The Election of 1928
• Herbert Hoover

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A Business Boom

• Consumer Economy
• Buying on credit
• Installment plans
• Electric Power
• General Electric
• New Products
• Refrigerators
• Washing Machines
• Irons
• http//www.history.com/videos/1920s-inventions

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Ford and the Automobile

• Model T
• Horseless carriage
• Assembly Line
• Assembly line moved the cars
• Produced one every 24 seconds
• Mass production
• A Complex Businessman
• Scientific Management
• Created 5 day work week
• Gave raises to employees
• Industrial Growth
• Growth of the highway system, trucking, motels,
  restaurants, etc.

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http//www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-
us/videos/henry-ford-and-the-model-t
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Womens Changing Roles

• The Flapper Image
• New type of woman
• Short dresses and short hair
• Smoked, drank, danced the Charleston
• Working Women and Voting
• Working women had little chances for advancement
• 19th Amendment
• Women did not vote like suffragists thought

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Cities and Suburbs

• African Americans in the North
• Great Migration African Americans move from the
  south to the north for work opportunities
• Other Migration
• Mexican and Canadian
• Growth of the Suburbs
• Cars and busses
• Fleeing urban areas

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American Heroes

• Lucky Lindy
• Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis
• Amelia Earhart
• Heroes in Sports
• Jack Dempsey
• Babe Ruth
• Gertrude Ederle
• Bobby Jones
• Johnny Weissmuller

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Mass Media

• Movies Talkies
• Mary Pickford (Americas sweetheart)
• Rudolph Valentino
• Charlie Chaplin
• Newspapers
• Hearst/Pullitzer
• Radio
• Pittsburghs KDKA
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

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The Jazz Age

• From blues and ragtime (New Orleans)
• Radio helps to spread
• Jazz clubs in Harlem
• Duke Ellington
• Louis Armstrong

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Other Artists

• Paintings
• Georgia OKeefe
• Literature
• Sinclair Lewis
• The Lost Generation
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• John Steinbeck
• Earnest Hemingway
• Harlem Renaissance
• African American literary awakening
• Langston Hughes

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Prohibitionhttp//www.history.com/videos/america-
goes-dry-with-prohibition

• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Organized Crime
• Came from prohibition
• Violent groups
• Al Capone
• Runs Chicago through bootlegging and other crimes
• J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
• http//www.history.com/shows/gangland/videos/gangs
  ter-al-capone-exploits-prohibition

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Issues of Religion

• Fundamentalism
• Argued that Christian ideas were flawless and the
  Bible had no errors
• Evolution and the Scopes Trial
• John T. Scopes, Tennessee teacher
• Scopes Monkey Trial

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Racial Tension

• Violence against African Americans
• Red Summer
• Revival of the Klan
• Fighting Discrimination
• NAACP
• The Garvey Movement
• Mother Africa