Post on 15-Dec-2015
Post World War I Issues
● Fear of Communism● Limiting Immigration● Labor Unrest
You Tube: First Red Scare
Fear of Communism
● The Red Scare● The Palmer Raids● Sacco and Vanzetti● YouTube - Sacco
and Vanzetti - song by Woody Guthire & David Rovics
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer RaidsA. Mitchell Palmer
Limiting Immigration
● Nativism● The Klan Rises Again● The Quota System-
sharply reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe as well as Asia.
Labor Unrest● In 1919, unions called
for more than 3000 strikes involving more than 4 million workers
● Employers refused demands for higher wages/shorter hours/right to join unions
● Employers labeled strikers as communists
John L. Lewis
Republicans in Power
Warren Harding 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
*Election of pro-business presidents Harding and Coolidge*Isolationist philosophy*Immigration quotas*Tariffs on imports to discourage foreign business competition*Corruption in Harding's administration
Business and TechnologyYou Tube: Henry Ford and Model T
● Growth of automobile industry
● Advertising gains popularity
● Widespread use of electricity
● Increased production of consumer goods
● Buying on credit● Superficial prosperity
Changing Ways of Life
● Prohibition● Science and Religion
Clash● The Twenties Woman● Sports● Music and Dance● Harlem Renaissance
Charles Lindbergh
Prohibition
● The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverage (18th Amendment)
● Speakeasies and bootleggers
● Organized Crime● YouTube
- Paper Lace-The Night Chicago Died
Al Capone
Science and Religion Clash
● Battle between fundamentalist religious groups and secular thinkers over the validity of certain scientific discoveries
● Fundamentalists contest Darwin's theory of evolution
● Scopes Monkey Trial
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
The Twenties Woman● The Flapper● New Work
Opportunities● Right to Vote
(19th Amendment)
● YouTube-19th Amendment
Jazz Age
As jazz music was sweeping the nation via the phonograph, radio, and the movies, young men and their flapper partners shocked their elders by dancing cheek-to-cheek fox-trots and the Charleston.
The Charleston Dance
Louie Armstrong
George Gershwin
Harlem Renaissance A literary and artistic
movement celebrating African-American culture.
YouTube - Harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes
I, too sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.
Tomorrow,I'll be at the table When company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,“Eat in the kitchen,”Then.
Besides,They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed-I, too, am America.
Applesauce- an expletive same as horsefeathers, As in "Ah applesauce!"
Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea; the ultimate
Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; The best or greatest, wonderful. Copacetic - Wonderful, fine, all right
Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls
Egg - a person who lives the big life Flat Tire - A dull witted, insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan
Heebie-Jeebies - The jittersHotsy - Totsy - Pleasing Real McCoy - The genuine articleRitzy - Elegant (from the hotel)
Cheaters - Eyeglasses
Dumb Dora - a stupid female
Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
Wet Blanket - a solemn person, a killjoy
1920’s Slang Language Sampler