Chapter 22 THE ROARING TWENTIES

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Chapter 22THE ROARING TWENTIES

• Adjusting to peacetime
• Changes in American Society
• The Jazz Age
• The Economy of the 1920s

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Bullet Points p. 757
Read pgs. 736-740
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Ch 22, Sec 1Adjusting to Peacetime

• I can understand how the nation reacted to change
  in the 1920s

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Ch 22 Sec 1 - Reaction

• Treaty of Versailles failed
• Poor economy
• Threats of violence
• People voted Republican

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Ch 22 Sec 1 - Presidents

• Pres. Harding promises return to Normalcy
• Harding dies of heart attack
• Calvin Coolidge keeps policies
• Economy gets better and ROARS

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Ch 22 Sec 1-World Events

• Coolidge helps U.S. participate in world peace
  efforts
• Condemns military aggression and war
• Intervenes in Latin America to help business
  interests

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Ch 22 Sec 1 At home

• The RED scare
• Anarchists set off bombs
• Many , Reds and Anarchists deported
• Sacco Vanzetti
• New immigration law

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Bullet Points p. 757
Read pgs. 741-745
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Ch 22 Sec 2Changes in American Society

• I can understand how social change and social
  conflict marked the 1920s

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Ch 22 Sec 1 No booze

• 18th amendment Prohibition - 1919
• Speakeasies
• Bootleggers
• White lightnin
• Bathtub gin
• Organized Crime

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Ch 22 Sec 2 - Women

• 19th amendment 1920 Womens suffrage
• Wyoming Texas Female Governors
• Still discrimination
• (medical schools, juries, money

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Ch 22, Sec 2 - Women

• Younger women show independence
• Flappers
• Bobbed hair
• Fancy dancing

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Ch 22 Sec 2 Mass culture

• Model T Ford
• Gas stations
• 700 radio stations by 1926
• Go to the movies

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Ch 22 Sec 2 Social Conflict

• 1925 Evolution vs Creationism Scopes Monkey
  Trial
• Great Migration
• Racial conflict
• Riots
• KKK
• Marcus Garvey

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Bullet Points p. 757
Read pages. 746-750
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Ch 22 Sec 3 The Jazz Age

• I can understand the arts and culture symbolized
  by the Jazz Age

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Fads and heroes

• New dances
• Flagpole sitting
• Dance marathons
• Sports heroes
• Celebrities

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Jazz Music

• Rhythms from West Africa Caribbean
• Work chants and spirituals from south
• Harmonies from Europe
• Developed by African Americans
• Moved north Great Migration

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Louis Armstrong
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Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
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Cab Calloway
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Literature

• Social criticism
• Anti rich F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Anti war Ernest Hemmingway
• Loose values Sinclair Lewis
• Racial prejudice Langston Hughes
• Sense of hope

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Bullet Points p. 757
Read pages 752-755
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Ch 22 Sec 4 The 1920s Economy

• I can understand the problems that threatened the
  economy in the 1920s

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Ch 22 Sec 3

• Although the economy looked good, something was
  not right.
• 1. Stock market boom
• 2. Heavy purchasing
• 3. Rural poverty
• 4. Unemployment

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Industrial Growth

• More new products to buy
• Washing machines
• Vacuum cleaners
• Radios
• Toasters
• Cars
• High supply low price

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Industrial growth

• People buy on credit
• High taxes (tariffs) on imports
• Tax cuts for the wealthy
• Economy stimulated but is there a problem?
• Reckless spending

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The Stock Market

• What is the stock market?
• 1920s Bull Market
• Value rises
• People buy on margin
• What is margin?

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TROUBLE!!!

• During WW I farmers borrowed money to increase
  production
• After war, markets shrank
• Farmers going broke

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MORE TROUBLE!!!

• Some companies give employees vacations and
  pensions
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• Factory work is unskilled
• Lower pay
• High unemployment

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MORE REPUBLICANS

• First Harding Who died
• Then Coolidge
• Then Hoover, who promised
• A chicken in every pot and a car in every
  garage
• Hoover loses city vote but wins in rural areas

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CONCLUSION

• DO YOU SEE ANY PROBLEMS?