Unit 6 ImagesEarly 1900 cartoons

and pictures, the progressives through the Jazz age

• Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

• Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless ... efficiency of organization.

Upton Sinclair

• Cosmopolitan• McClures• Colliers• Investigative

Journals that uncovered corruption, bribery and scandals for the ‘people’

• Coined by TR• The term was

not a positive one

• TR was a progressive but didn’t want to upset the corporate control of the economy

• City Life• Immigrants tended

to flock to poor, urban centers in New York and Chicago

• The areas were dirty, dark and poverty stricken

• Slum lords did little to keep up the apartments and often made great profits renting to these people

Teddy Roosevelt as the Bull

Moose

TR-Good and Bad Trusts

Holding CompaniesParent companies

whose sole purpose is to own stock in another

company, influences the

board of directors and helps steer the course of

economic

direction.

• Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. Robert La Follette

Hiram Johnson

I do not by any means believe the initiative, the referendum, and the recall are the panacea for all our political ills, yet they do give to the electorate the power of action when desired, and they do place in the hands of the people the means by which they may protect themselves.

Hiram Johnson

Popular Government

THE WAR CHANT

“They gotta keep kicking my dog around.”Herbert Johnson

Republicans Split

Taft and TRInsurgents demand tariff reform, income tax, direct

election of senators, stricter regulation of railroads…

more progressive

Political Corruption strikes DC

Wilson’s Plan

Henry Cabot Lodge-

Republican Opposition

Public Opinion was for the League of Nations. However, that was not strong enough to push it through the Senate, seen here as a running back.

Treaty of Versailles

fails to pass the

US Senate.

Why?

USS Patience

After Lusitania sinks…

Lusitania Warning

Pro-League Posters

1920 Election MapPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1920

Popular vote: Harding (R) 16,152,200; Cox (D) 9,147,353; Debs (S) 919,799; Watkins 189,408; Cox (S.L.) 31,175; Christensen 265,411; Macauley 5,837. Electoral vote: Harding, 404 Cox 127

1920 Election

Harding and the League

League: “Is that my friend President Wilson SpeakingPresident Harding: “No. . . . Ring Off”

Punch , 1920

Harding and the League

Teapot Dome

Scandal- black mark on

Harding’s administration,

evidence of corruption for

leasing oil lands to companies and politicians taking

payments for such acts.

1924 Election Map

Women March to the Vote

Farmers and Prosperity

The Rich and

Labor-turn of

the Century

Red Scare

Red Scare

Scopes Trial

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Traditionalists versus

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Radio-mass communicating

Hollywood emerges: First Full Length Classic Birth of a

Nation showcases epic battle scenes and the Ku

Klux Klan saving the South from the evil of

Reconstruction.

Automobiles--Impact on America

Cost of a Model T

Fashion of the 20s

Illustration for “The Camp Leader” by Earl Reed Silvers. St. Nicholas. Volume 50, No. 10 (August 1923), 1022.

One Piece Bathing Suits: A sign of the times

Jazz Emerges: tricky syncopation and seductive dancing combine to unleash a wave of sexual liberation

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, early 1920s

The early legends

The Dancing:

The Charleston

Prohibition

“Lets have another round of evidence.”

Jack Johnson-Boxer

The Fight of the Century- Reno Nevada in front of 22,000 mostly white audience. The crowd screamed “Kill the Nigger” to which Johnson answered by Knocking out Jeffries in the 15th Round

Chicago White Sox

8 players from the White Sox are accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. The Players were acquitted but banned from baseball for life

Negro League Players

Organized in 1920, the Negro League was the answer to the Major Baseball League and an obvious necessary outlet for Blacks and sports

KKK- 40,000 march on Washington DC in 1920 to show their hate for blacks,

Jews and Catholics

Some Quotes to take us out of the twenties…..

“Native, White, Protestant Supremacy” Motto of the new Ku Klux Klan

1925 -- Mexicans are suitable for agricultural work “due to their crouching and bending habits...,

while the white in physically unable to adapt himself to them”

Report of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

1923-- “If Europe is for the Europeans, then Africa shall

be for the black peoples of the world.” Marcus Garvey of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, calling for a return

to Africa.

1925-- “I make my money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers, who number hundreds of the

best people in Chicago, are as guilty as I am. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman.” Bootlegger Al

Capone

1924 --“Why on earth do you need to study what’s changing this country? I can tell you what ﾕ s happening in just

four letters: A-U-T-O. A resident of Muncie, Indiana, responding to

questions from sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd for their book

Middletown (1929).

1927-- “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” Al Jolson, first words

spoken in movies, in The Jazz Singer.

1925-- “If a minister believes and teaches evolution, he is a

stinking skunk, a hypocrite, and a liar.” Evangelist Billy

Sunday.

1920 --The new generation of Americans was “dedicated more

than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars

fought, all faiths in man shaken.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his first novel,

This Side of Paradise

1925 --“The business of the American people is business. The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there.” President Calvin Coolidge

By the end of the 1920s, America was seemingly unstoppable. Success was plentiful, the drinking, though illegal,

showed no signs of slowing and the stock market was going through the roof.

Nothing seemed able to slow the growth and the good times.