The New Era: The Roaring 20

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The New Era The Roaring 20s
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Take Five

• In the 1920s, the United States experienced an
  economic boom due to, among other things,  A)
  the mobilization of the economy for war.  B)
  increased government restrictions on big
  business.  C) installment buying and an
  unregulated stock market.  D) the expansion of
  civil rights to women and minorities.

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Economic Boom

• New or Improved Technologies
• Auto industry
• Frederick Taylor
• Ford and GM

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Economic Boom

• The invention of the
• Radio
• Mass production
• Buying on time

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Economic boom

• Commercial Aviation
• Wright Brothers
• Charles Lindbergh

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Lucky Lindy
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Spirit of St. Louis
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Economic boom

• Early computers
• Genetic research
• Gregor Mendel
• Thomas Hunt Morgan

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Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Plight of the Workers

• Henry Ford
• welfare capitalism
• Unionization in the 1920s
• The American Plan
• Working women and minorities
• pink-collar jobs
• minorities and unions
• Philip Randolphs Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
  Porters

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A. Philip Randolph
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Plight of the Workers (cont)

• Farmers
• Increased technology
• Supply demand
• McNary-Haugan Bill

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New Consumerism

• Mass production
• Advertising
• Bruce Barton
• Mass communication
• Mass circulation magazines
• Movies
• Talkies are introduced
• The Jazz Singer

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Bruce Barton
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Radio broadcasting

• Radio
• KDKA
• National Broadcasting Co.

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KDKA Radio
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The New Professional Woman

• John B. Watson
• Margaret Sanger
• National womens party
• Alice Paul
• ERA
• Sheppard-Towner Act

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Margaret Sanger
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Alice Paul
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Arts and Literature

• Debunkers
• H.L. Mercken
• Sinclair Lewis
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Earnest Hemingway
• Harlem Renaissance
• Tin Pan Alley
• Langston Hughes
• Duke Ellington
• Billie Holiday
• Bessie Smith
• Irving Berlin
• The Jazz Age
• Flappers

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ernest Hemingway
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1920s jazz age
Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington
Irving Berlin
Bessie Smith
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James Langston Hughes
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The Flapper
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Harlem Renaissance

• Literary movement
• problem of being black in a white culture
• Social movement
• Marcus Garvey
• United Negro Improvement Association
• Back to Africa movement
• Mail frauddeportment

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Take Five

• Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.
  ConstitutionThe eighteenth article of
  amendment to the Constitution of the United
  States is hereby repealed.
• The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was
  repealed because  A) the President vetoed the
  Amendment.  B) women demanded the right to
  suffrage.  C) the Supreme Court ruled it
  unconstitutional.  D) Congress and the states
  agreed to repeal it.

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Traditional values vs. Modern culture

• Prohibition
• Ushering in the Gangster Era
• Johnny Torrio (The Fox)
• Al Capone Public Enemy 1
• Big Bill Thompson
• "We'll not only reopen places these people have
  closed, but we'll open 10,000 new ones
  (speakeasies). 1927 in Chicago

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Al Capone
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Al Capones Mug-shot 1931
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Baby Face Nelson

• Dismissed by Al Capone for being too violent
• Renamed the FBIs new Public Enemy 1
• Shot and killed by FBI when he was only 26

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Bugsy Moran

• The only serious gangster challenge to Al Capone
• Attempted to have Capone killed
• Believe his gang superiorb/c did not have
  prostitutes
• Died of cancer in prison in 1957 in a paupers
  grave just outside of the prison

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So.why are the gangsters not putting up a fight?
St. Valentines Day Massacre (1929)
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St. Valentines Day Massacre
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Take Fivefor Pat Points

• What conflicts emerged between those with
  traditional values and those with new modern
  values? Give 3 examples.

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Nativism

• New immigration restrictions
• Quota system
• The National Origins Act of 1924
• Nativism
• Rebirth of the KKK
• Leo Frank
• D.W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation

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Leo Frank
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Mary Phagan
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Take Five

• Which of these periods saw
• the smallest overall
• population increase?  A) 1900-1904  B)
  1905-1909  C) 1910-1914  D) 1915-1919

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Religious Modernists vs. Fundamentalists

• Creation vs. Evolution
• Scopes Monkey Trial

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Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan
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Monkey Business
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The Great Bull Market

• Wild speculation in the Stock market
• Buying stocks on-margin
• Wildcats schemes
• Selling under-water lots in Florida devastated by
  hurricanes and advertised as soothing tropical
  winds
• Secretary of the Treasury-Mellon
• Reduced the national debt by 10 million
• Spare the rich policies
• High taxes discouraged business
• Eliminating the excess-profits taxes, gift taxes,
  and income taxes for the rich

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Democratic Party

• Al Smith
• William McAdoo
• John Davis

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Warren G. Harding
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Presidency in the New Era

• Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
• Ohio Gang
• Scandal in the White House
• Teapot Dome Elk Hills
• Calvin Coolidge
• (1923-1929)
• World War I debt
• Herbert Hoover

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Calvin Silent Cal Coolidge