A Unique Prosperous and Discontented Time Chapter 21

A Unique, Prosperous, and Discontented Time Chapter 21

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” • Revival of Antiforeignism – 1 -3 (page 275 -279)

“Red Scare” – Palmer Raids Police Arrest “Suspected Reds’ in Chicago, 1920

“Red Scare” -- Anti. Bolshevism “Put Them Out & Keep Them Out” – Philadelphia Inquirer

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” • The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan – 4 -5 (page 279 -281)

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” • The Wets vs. Drys – 6 -8 (page 281 -285) • New Goal for Women – 9 -12 (page 285 -293)

Temperance • Over abuse of alcohol was found to expand into prostitution, gambling, and narcotics. This led to the 18 th amendment. The amendment banned the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic beverage. The Congress approved of this for it wanted to maintain a sober workforce during World War I.

• The Prohibition Amendment was ignored since the majority of Americans drank alcoholic beverages. However, since no one wanted to get caught, covert organizations were made. Among these were the Speakeasies. The Speakeasies were bars and clubs that sold bootleg alcohol illegally. Bootleg alcohol is smuggled and was mainly smuggled from Canada and made by the citizens.

• In this bootlegging industry, Al Capone was one of the main figures. He headed a Chicago bootlegging ring. Capone led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging alcohol and other illegal crimes during this era. Republicans and southern Democrats supported prohibition, and urban Democrats wanted it repealed. The increasing unpopularity of prohibition and the Great Depression led to the 21 st amendment, which repealed the 18 th prohibition amendment.

Harding vs. Coolidge • Compare these two presidents by creating a chart that list each presidents positive and negative impacts on the White House and Nation. After listing the two presidents impacts you’ll need to choose one and tell which was a better president for the United States. Use examples to explain why one was better than the other.

Harding vs. Coolidge Positive: Negative: The better president between Harding and Coolidge was …. because. . (Responses should be about 2 paragraphs in length. )

Harding’s administration This cartoon depicts the "steamrolling" effect of the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the Harding Administration in the 1920 s.

Calvin Coolidge

The Booming Economy • Between 1922 and 1929 the annual Gross National Product of the USA increased by 40%. The average income per head increased by 27%.

• Consumer boom – growth of personal possessions (c. f. Woolworths, hire purchase, commercial travellers). • Synthetics – the invention of bakelite (the first plastic), cellophane and nylon - and chemicals.

The Macy’s Parade ( Thanksgiving Day 1924 )

• Innovation in production methods, especially in the motor industry (by 1925 Ford were producing a car every 10 seconds); this pushed down prices and made goods more accessible for ordinary people (the ‘Tin Lizzie’ cost $850 in 1910, only $295 in 1920). • Upsurge in car ownership – esp. the Ford Model T; 15 million had been produced

Henry Ford

• Consumer durables/electrical goods – fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, record players. • Communications revolution – number of telephone doubled/ number of radios increased from 60, 000 to 10 million.

• Entertainment industry – Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin, the ‘talkies’ and cinemas, jazz clubs and speakeasies. • Stock market – Wall Street boomed (a 'bull' market) with many people buying shares to make a profit. Many new businesses were 'floated' on the stock market.

Skyscrapers, highways and urban development.

Flappers

• Flapper in the 1920 s was a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

The Jazz Age was an effect of the Harlem Renaissance. This was an era of written and artistic creativity among African-Americans after World War I that lasted until the middle of the 1930’s Depression. The migration of African-Americans to northern cities contributed to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance. Between 1919 and 1926, many African. Americans left their rural southern homes and moved to urban areas like New York City, Chicago, and Washington D. C. This migration was one of the factors that contributed to artistic style change and success of African. American artists. The Harlem Renaissance was first known as the New Negro Movement that had first started as a series of literary discussions in Greenwich Village and Harlem. This movement brought unparalleled creative activity in literature (especially in poems, plays, dramas, and essays), art and music. It also allowed the redefinition of African-American heritage.

Pictured here are Langston Hughes [far left] with [left to right: ] Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert T. Delaney

Jazz Music

Marcus Garvey “Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. ” “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ” • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=R-Xjlo. OKl 60

Popular Sports • The 1920 s allowed for an enthusiasm in professional sports. Many different types of sports became popular during this time period, therefore giving this period another name: “Golden Age of Sports”. Baseball, football, boxing, horse racing, and tennis are some sports that rose in popularity. Influential athletes from this era include Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey. • Babe Ruth, a baseball player, was considered a role model. He didn’t mind if people knew about his alcohol drinking or cigar smoking. Jack Dempsey

Dempsey Ruth

Scopes Trial • http: //www. schooltube. com/video/8 e 2 edc 4 8907 c 734 d 8 c 37/

Research Assignment: Roaring 20’s • • • Introduction - what was the Roaring 20’s? Social: Political: Economics: Was the Roaring 20’s Really Roaring? What Individual had the Biggest Impact on the Roaring 20’s and Why? • Timeline of the Roaring Twenties and the Major Events Impacting the United States (1920 -1929): --I---------------------------------------------I- 1920 1929 *Make sure to site your sources in either a footnote or MLA format.