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PROSPERITY . . . AND CULTURE WARS
Birth: a moment to celebrate but it sure is stressful at the time
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Truckload of changes from automobiles automobile culture
New towns due to new Highways New architectural styles of homes (garages,
carports, driveways) Gas stations, Car repair shops Tunnels Tourist camps, motels (motor hotels) Shopping centers, drivethrus Traffic signals Vacations, shopping, &entertainment Urban sprawl New industries (car, gas)
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Sell wealth Color? Who drove
this car on weekends?
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3. Advertising Industry The growth of business produced
advertising industry
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2. Electrical Conveniences
New tech elec conveniences during 1920s
Cars, airplanes, radios, telephones, etc.
Women -- appliances like refrigerators, vacuum cleaners & electric stoves become shoppers, not creators
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4. Installment plan
Allowed consumers to use credit to purchase expensive items a little at a time
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America became consumer society for first time (status measured by how many “things” you owned)
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5. Heroes Interest in spectator sports grew in
the 1920s Boxer Jack Dempsey Baseball player Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh -- #1 hero of the
time Swimmer Gertrude Ederle
Youth, physical strength, daring, simplicity (image, anyway)
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6. Entertainment First movie with sound (talkie),
The Jazz Singer (‘27) Jazz (started in southern cities in
Mississippi & in New Orleans) “relocation diffusion” with Great Migration
Dance crazes, fads like flagpole sitting, crossword puzzles, King Tut
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Alvin Kelly, King of Flagpole-Sitting
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And now to the Culture Wars
1. Generation gap – “teenagers”
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2. Women! (like Clara Bow)
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Characteristics of the “Flapper”:• Short hair (ear bob)
• Legs showing with
shorter skirts
• Single women
entertained male friends
at home without a
chaperone
• Smoking
• Dancing
• “Party girls”
• Rebellious
• Fun-loving
• Modern
• Liberated (FREE!)
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3. Religion
Values challenged by science and tragedy of World War I Modern, or return to basics?
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Fundamentalism Bible literally true, written by God,
no contradictions or errors Attacked women’s suffrage,
education, science
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Evangelical ministers -- revivals & radioBilly Sunday, Evangelical Preacher
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The Scopes Trial Tennessee teacher, John Scopes,
arrested and tried for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution instead of Bible’s account of Creation
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4. “Red Scare”
Russian Revolution threatens capitalism
Bombs in American cities in 1919
U.S.S. Buford actually ships Communists to Soviet Union
All “-ists” are feared
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5. Business vs. Labor
So all labor unions are suspected 3,600 strikes in 1919 (supposedly) –
DANGER! Republican presidents establish laissez-
faire, pro-business environment
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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Italian immigrants and
anarchists May 5, 1920-arrested for a
payroll robbery-South Braintree, Massachusetts
paymaster and guard shot and killed
evidence-circumstantial- found guilty and sentenced
to death protests in US, Latin
America, Europe executed August 23, 1927 1961-ballistic evidence
points to Sacco but others would say it is inconclusive
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6. “Red Summer”
1919 – race riots all over US White mobs attack African-American
neighborhoods in response to real or imagined provocations
Soldiers lynched still in army uniforms
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7. Resurgence of Ku Klux Klan
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But even in everyday life
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8. Nativism vs. Immigrants
Quotas established to “preserve ratios”, keep America “American”
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9. Urban vs. Rural
Tech progress fewer farmers needed Immigrants unskilled to factories Cities more exciting, esp. after WWI
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10. Wet vs. Dry
Prohibition See above #1,3,8,9 Leads to organized crime like Capone
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