Supply-side Economics

Mass Production

Assembly Line

Model T

Evolution

Creationism

Speakeasy

Mass Media

Jazz

Blues

Name for the Economic boom that started after WWI and continued until 1929

Time of rapid change in many aspects of American Life

Many believe that this period was the beginnings of the modern American culture

1. Increase in the use of new transportation (automobile & airplane)

2. Women more involved in politics and the workforce3. Increase in Rural to Urban migration4. Women’s Fashion5. New Forms of Entertainment (Jazz, Radio, and

Movies)6. Beginnings of Mass Media (New York and

Hollywood)7. Birth of Modern-day Celebrities

(Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh)

Return to a more conservative politics after WWIElection of pro-business Republicans to office

(laissez faire policies)President Warren G. Harding’s administration

known for several large scandalsTea Pot Dome- Secretary of Interior took bribes

in exchange for leasing federal land to oil companies

Pres. Harding died of heart attack and replaced by his vice-president Calvin Coolidge

Continued Harding’s polices without the scandals but with the booming economy

America became a consumer economy during the 1920’s

Increase in consumer creditStock market also exploded during this times

because of all of the new businesses that made these products

People even brought stock on credit (margin)Buying on margin worked as long as price of

stocks went up

Henry Ford used assembly line production to make cars faster and cheaper than before

Ford’s Model T made car ownership affordable to more Americans (by 1927 56% of American Families owned a car)

Assembly lines allowed one worker to specialize in a particular area of manufacturing a product instead of each worker making the whole product

Assembly line production was soon used by all industries

The car allowed people to travel greater distances faster

Individuals now no longer had to live in walking distance of their job (Growth of Suburbs)

The government also started to build better roads to connect suburbs to cities and cities to other cities

Car also gave Americans more freedom as they could go anywhere they wanted when they wanted to go

1. Name three changes of the 1920’s.2. What type of economic policy did the

government return to in the 1920’s?3. Buying stock on margin only worked if what

happened?4. How did Henry Ford reduce the price of

automobiles?5. What are two ways the automobile changed

America?

Embracement of the traditional views of religion, science, and culture

Believe things should stay the same

Rural Americans

Embracement of of science and secular values over the tradition and religion

Believed that the new ideas and changes were an improvement over the past

Urban American

1925- Tennessee passes a law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools

ACLU promised to defend anyone accused of breaking law

Rhea County PE teacher John Scopes accused of breaking law

Defended by famous Chicago lawyer Clarence DarrowProsecution headed by William Jennings BryanScopes found guilty but charges were later dropped

due to technicality Dayton became known as “Monkey Town” all around

the country

The temperance movement had tried to pass laws to prohibit sale and use of alcohol since colonial days for several reasons

1.Religious convictions2.Many believed that alcohol was the cause of

most crime3.Most wife beaters were also alcoholics4.Alcohol hurt the productivity of workers5.WWI helped the prohibition movement

because beer was associated with Germany

WWI helped the prohibition movement because beer was associated with Germany

1920- The eighteenth amendment outlawed the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of all alcohol in the United States

Volstead Act passed to enforce the amendment

Prohibition was a complete failure1.Government loss the tax revenue

from alcohol taxes2.People ignored the law and still

consumed alcohol3.Speakeasies- places that illegally

sold alcohol

4. Organized crime (the mob) became involved in the illegal distribution and production of alcohol (bootlegging)

5. Chicago became a haven for organized crime

6. Citizens had less respect for the law and law enforcement

Prohibition was finally repealed by the 21st amendment

The most powerful mobster in Chicago during the 20’s

Owned most of the cops in Chicago

Federal government could never prove his involvement in organize crime

Sentenced to 11 years in federal prison in 1931 for income tax evasion

Create a multiflow map over Prohibition that includes at least five causes of prohibition and five effects of prohibition

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Do the youth seen in this photo seem “reckless” or “rebellious” by today’s standards?

How would these individuals be viewed today?

Symbolic “new woman” of the 1920s

Called “flappers” after their unbuckled galoshes

Bobbed hair, makeup, short skirts

Smoked and drank in publicResisted the traditional

roles of women Wanted more control

over their lives

Many of the most famous writers in American history wrote the majority of their works in the 1920’s

These writers often question traditional American values and discussed what they thought was wrong with American society (Lost Generation)

1.F. Scott Fitzgerald2.Ernest Hemingway3.William Faulkner4.Gertrude Stein 5.T S Eliot

Greatest work was The Great Gatsby

Explored the realities of the American dream, wealth, and the upper class

The main characters all meet their doom when they discover the truth of the American dream and consumerism

1920’s African American cultural movement that started in the Harlem section of New York City

The leader of the movement was author Langston Hughes

Celebrated African American culture and tradition both ancestral and modern day

Lasting legacy to this day is the Apollo Theater in Harlem

Pittsburgh’s KDKA began broadcasting in 1920

More than 500 stations operating nationwide by 1922

News, music, sports, and live comedies and dramas

Radio brought these things to the masses as they occurred

Broadcasting from the KDKA studios, 1920

Jazz Emerged in the South

and Midwest (especially New Orleans)

Mixed traditional African call and response music with European harmony

First famous jazz musicians were Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

F. Scott Fitzgerald called the 20’s “the jazz age”

Blues Emerged in the Deep

South (especially Memphis)

Emerged from the traditional work songs of African American slaves

First famous blues musicians were W. C. Handy and Bessie Smith

Several areas of the country had it own unique type of blues

Nashville Saturday Night Radio Show that began in 1920’s on the AM radio station WSM

WSM’s signal reached over half the USA and into Canada

Helped to popularize country music around the nation

Made Nashville the capitol of country music

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic

Flew from New York to Paris

Became an American hero

Popularity of movies explode in the 20’s Still only had silent pictures1927- first move with sound (talkies) is made

(The Jazz Singer)In a few years talkies would replace all silent

pictures in movie theaters

First true movie star was the comedian Charlie Chaplin

Usually played a character known as “The Little Tramp”

Known for his physical comedy

Many comedians still use techniques pioneered by Chaplin today

1920’s saw sports stars go from local to national heroes because radio made it easier to follow players and teams

1920’s are known as the golden age of sportsSports writers for newspapers and radio

broadcast of events greatly increase the popularity of sports

Most famous and perhaps best baseball player ever to play the game

Started out as a pitcher

First true homerun slugger

Made the New York Yankees the most famous sports team in the world

1922-1924 Norte Dame backfield

Coached by Knute Rockne Quarterback Harry

StuhldreherLeft halfback Jim CrowleyRight halfback Don MillerFullback Elmer LaydenHad 30-2 record at Norte

Dame

Known as the "The Manassa Mauler“

Held the World Heavyweight Title from 1919-1926