The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, - MILLWOOD HISTORY · 2018-09-01 · 1920's collectively...
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The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict
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The Roaring 20rsquosAn era of prosperity
Republican power
and conflict
EQ Essential Question
How did Life Change in America
during the 1920s
OK Standards
Examine the economic political and social transformations between the
World Wars
A Cite specific textual and visual evidence to describe modern forms of
cultural expression including the Harlem Renaissance the Jazz Age and
ldquotalkiesrdquo (movies)
B Describe the rising racial tensions in American society including the
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan increased lynchings race riots as typified by
the Tulsa Race Riot and the use of poll taxes and literacy tests to
disenfranchise blacks and poor whites
C Examine growing labor unrest and industryrsquos reactions including the use of
sit-down strikes and court injunctions and why socialism and communism
appealed to labor
D Describe the booming economy based upon access to and easy credit
through installment buying of appliances and inventions of modern
conveniences including the automobile
1920s collectively known as the Roaring 20s or the
Jazz Age
in sum a period of great change in American Society -
modern America is born at this time
for first time the census reflected an urban society -
people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard
of living
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
Ailing Agriculturehellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
EQ Essential Question
How did Life Change in America
during the 1920s
OK Standards
Examine the economic political and social transformations between the
World Wars
A Cite specific textual and visual evidence to describe modern forms of
cultural expression including the Harlem Renaissance the Jazz Age and
ldquotalkiesrdquo (movies)
B Describe the rising racial tensions in American society including the
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan increased lynchings race riots as typified by
the Tulsa Race Riot and the use of poll taxes and literacy tests to
disenfranchise blacks and poor whites
C Examine growing labor unrest and industryrsquos reactions including the use of
sit-down strikes and court injunctions and why socialism and communism
appealed to labor
D Describe the booming economy based upon access to and easy credit
through installment buying of appliances and inventions of modern
conveniences including the automobile
1920s collectively known as the Roaring 20s or the
Jazz Age
in sum a period of great change in American Society -
modern America is born at this time
for first time the census reflected an urban society -
people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard
of living
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
Ailing Agriculturehellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
OK Standards
Examine the economic political and social transformations between the
World Wars
A Cite specific textual and visual evidence to describe modern forms of
cultural expression including the Harlem Renaissance the Jazz Age and
ldquotalkiesrdquo (movies)
B Describe the rising racial tensions in American society including the
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan increased lynchings race riots as typified by
the Tulsa Race Riot and the use of poll taxes and literacy tests to
disenfranchise blacks and poor whites
C Examine growing labor unrest and industryrsquos reactions including the use of
sit-down strikes and court injunctions and why socialism and communism
appealed to labor
D Describe the booming economy based upon access to and easy credit
through installment buying of appliances and inventions of modern
conveniences including the automobile
1920s collectively known as the Roaring 20s or the
Jazz Age
in sum a period of great change in American Society -
modern America is born at this time
for first time the census reflected an urban society -
people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard
of living
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
Ailing Agriculturehellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
1920s collectively known as the Roaring 20s or the
Jazz Age
in sum a period of great change in American Society -
modern America is born at this time
for first time the census reflected an urban society -
people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard
of living
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
Ailing Agriculturehellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
Ailing Agriculturehellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
an agri depression in early 1920s contributed to this urban migration
US farmers lost agri markets in postwar Europe
at same time agri efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed
so farming was no longer as prosperous and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed)
so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty
sharecropping kept them in de factoslavery
1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop
white landowners went bankrupt amp forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form ie Harlem
within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished
But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Marcus Garvey (Jamaican born immigrant) established the Universal Negro Improvement Association
believed in Black pride
advocated racial segregation bc of Black superiority
Garvey believed Blacks should return to Africa
he purchased a ship to start the Black Star line
attracted many investments govt charged him with wfraud
he was found guilty and eventually deported to Jamaica but his organization continued to exist
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Republican Power President
Harding
Elected 1920
Legacy of
Scandals
ldquoTeapot Domerdquo
Died in office
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
President CoolidgeldquoThe business of America is businessrdquo
Fordney-
McCumber Tariff
Smoot-Hawley
Tariff
No help for farmers
Foreign Policy -
Isolationism
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Culture of the Roaring 20rsquosRadio
KDKA Pittsburgh
GE Westinghouseamp RCA
form NBC
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin
ldquoTalkiesrdquoThe Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson
Mary PickfordldquoAmericarsquos Sweetheartrdquo
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
CelebritiesBabe Ruth ampTy Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
The Spirit of St Louis
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
The 20rsquos is The Jazz AgeThe Flappers
make up
cigarettes
short skirts
MusiciansLouis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
WritersF Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
1920s also brought about great changes for women
1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote
after 1920 social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home
and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions
women didnt want to sacrifice wartime gains -amounted to a social revolt
characterized by the FLAPPER new woman
ndash (bobbed hair short dresses smoked in public)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant
ndash National Origins Act
ndash Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
ndash Italian immigrants
ndash Unfair trial
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
for immigrants ndash the point of origin had shifted to S amp E Europe and new religions appeared Jewish Orthodox Catholic
N European immigrants of early 19c feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
this fear was known as NATIVISM
many wanted Congress to restrict immigration leading to a quota system that favoured n areas of Europe
fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm post-Bolshevik Rev)
basic comm advocates a intl revolution by the proletariatworkers -fears that this ideology could find its way into the US
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
at this time W Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke
his Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage
he had J Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
The Ku Klux KlanGreat increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-womenrsquos suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-Semitic
(Anti-Jewish)
Anti-Catholic
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Scopes ldquoMonkeyrdquo TrialEvolution vs Creationism
Dayton TennesseeFamous Lawyers
Science vs Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
8 PROHIBITION - on manuf
and sale of alcohol
adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT
an outgrowth of the longtimetemperance movement
in WWI temperance became a patriotic mvmt - drunkenness caused low productivity amp inefficiency and alcohol needed to treat the wounded
a difficult law to enforce organized crime speakeasies bootleggers were on the rise
Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period -capitalism at its zenithhellip
Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w the 21st Amendment
forced organized crime to pursue other interestshellip
