1. progressive 2. Social Darwinism 3. Eugenics 4. 18th Amendment 5. nativism 6. demographics 7. immigrant 8. migration 9. 19th Amendment 10. laissez-faire
20s—review old terms
20s Terms 1. Prohibition 2. Flapper 3. Assembly Line 4. Great Migration 5. Harlem Renaissance 6. Jazz Age 7. Prosperity 8. Stock Market 9. Consumerism 10. Red Scare
11. American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
12. Teapot Dome Scandal
13. Tin Pan Alley 14. 18th Amendment 15. 19th Amendment 16. Credit/installment
buying 17. political scandals
20s Ideas Consumer society Political and social
changes Causes and effects:
immigration, Social Darwinism, eugenics, race relations, nativism, Red Scare, Prohibition, changing roles of women
Changing demographic patterns
Social characteristics and issues expressed and reflected in its arts (music, paintings, literature, film)
Effects of scandals upon society
Twenties Topics—see film 1. Introduction
2. The Third Industrial Revolution
3. Urbanization
4. The Revolution in Manners and Morals
5. The Electrical Home
6. Advertising and The Pursuit of Happiness
7. The Beauty Industries
8. The Silver Screen
9. The Jazz Age
10. Prohibition
11. Nativists and Fundamentalists
12. The Golden Age of Sports
13. Lucky Lindy
14. The Coming of The Great Depression
The 1920’sA Republican DecadeBack to Isolationism
In 1920: 18th amendment (prohibition) 19th amendment (women’s suffrage) Election of Harding “a return to normalcy” “The Ohio Gang” Teapot Dome Scandal Died in office
I. Warren G. Harding—1921-1923
“Keep cool with Coolidge”
“The business of America is business.”
“Silent Cal”
II. Calvin Coolidge—1923-1929
“The engineer”
“Hooverizing”
“A chicken in every pot!”
III. Herbert Hoover—1929-1933
“ Three Hoovers”
J. Edgar Hoover—F.B.I. The Vacuum Cleaner
Prosperity Big Business Consumerism Laissez-faire in economics Laissez-faire in social issues
IV. The Economy
Automobile industry Household appliances Clothing and gadgets Madison Avenue advertising Women in the workplace
NOT for farmers!
Prosperity…
Fear of Communists Fear of Russians Fear of immigrants Fear of socialists Fear of anarchists Fear of unions Fear of foreigners
V. Red Scare
Immigration Closed!
Quotas on European Immigrants led to decrease
Mexican and Puerto Rican immigration increased
National Origins Act of 1924
Palmer Raids (enforcement of Espionage Act)
The Volstead Act (enforcement of 18th Am)
“The Untouchables”
Court cases…
VI. Government Enforcement
“The income tax law is a lot of bunk. The government can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.” Al Capone
Gitlow v. New York—all of first amendment applies to all states—protects freedom of press and speech—addresses 14th amendment’s rights of citizenship
Schenk v. U.S.—does not protect freedom of speech and press during war—upheld Espionage Act (result of Socialist anti-war pamphlets distributed to draftees)— “clear and present danger”
(Others: Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, Scopes, the biology teacher)
AP: Court Cases
Strikes and riots—Note: Union membership decreasedduring1920s
VII. Labor Unrest
Al Smith ran for president in 1928 against HH as a Democrat against prohibition
He was the first Catholic candidate for President Soundly defeated
VIII. Election of 1928
Growth of KKK nationwide targeted people who were not White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.
Over 5 million members
Controlled 3state governmentsIn 1923
IX. Rise of Intolerance
It was illegal to teach evolution in most states
Law was challenged by a biology teacher in Tennessee
The Scopes Trial was a “media circus” Still an issue today for states—“Intelligent
Design” used as explanation
Conservative Ideas in Schools
Intolerance about race
Women divided about goals of feminism
Distractions of mass media—entertainment became a priority
“Me” Decade
Farmers still suffering and not part of prosperity
Note: American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 finally passed re-enforcing 14th
Amendment
End of Progressive Ideas
APUSH Test Review: Imperialism, WWI, Twenties
STUDY: STUDY:
Imperialism Vocabulary Spanish-American War
notes McKinley, TR, Taft,
Wilson Mahan’s book Hawaii, Cuba,
Philippines, Alaska WWI Vocabulary WWI Notes Propaganda
Names of WWI New weapons Armistice and Treaty Great Migration Twenties Notes and
trends Prosperity Republican Decade Scopes Trial Prohibition
To what degree did the Roaring Twenties represent both extreme conservative ideas and extreme liberal ideas?
APUSH Open Ended Essay Prompt
The Twenties Dichotomy (Juxtaposition)
CONSERVATIVE TRENDS LIBERAL TRENDS
Conservative Politics Staying out of international
affairs Big business Wall Street tycoons Isolationism Limiting Immigration Laissez-faire Prohibition KKK Religious Fundamentalism and
Scopes trial Red Scare
Liberal attitudes toward women’s rights
Fashion Speakeasies and drinking parties
Dating and youth Consumerism and paying on
time Playing the stock market Church attendance down Freud Movie stars “Lost Generation” Evolution and Scopes trial Jazz and the arts
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