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“The Roaring Twenties” The 1920’s Group Presentations --Google Docs--

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2. An Era of Prosperity Republican Power and Conflict 3. The Roaring Twenties 4. Age of Prosperity Economic expansion Mass Production Assembly Line Age of the Automobile More Leisure Time Ailing Agriculture 5. Republican Power President Harding Elected 1920 Legacy of Scandals Teapot Dome Died in office 6. President Coolidge The business of America is business. Silent Cal Smoot-Hawley Tariff - Raised Tariffs No help for farmers Foreign Policy 7. Herbert Hoover Iowa Farm Boy Hooverizing Elected in 1928 3rd Republican Pro-Big Business Pres. In a row 8. Consumer Economy Automobiles Henry Ford Assembly Line Electric Appliances Washing machines Refrigerators Vacuum cleaners buy on credit - installments - Energy Consumption Coal Oil Natural Gas 9. Culture of the Roaring 20s Radio Disneys NBC Steamboat Willie Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin The Little Tramp Talkies The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson 10. Celebrities of the 20s Who were they? Jack Dempsey Charles Lindbergh Lucky Lindy The Spirit of St. Louis 11. The 20s is The Jazz Age The Flappers - make up - cigarettes - short skirts Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 12. A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant National Origins Act Discrimination Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Italian immigrants Unfair trial Garvey Movement Marcus Garvey Back to Africa 13. The Ku Klux Klan Great increase In power Anti-black Anti-immigrant Anti-womens suffrage Anti-bootleggers Anti-semitic Anti-catholic 14. Scopes MonkeyTrial Evolution vs. Creationism Famous Lawyers Science vs. Religion John Scopes High School Biology teacher 15. Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act Gangsters Al Capone 16. Topics to Pick From/ 2-4 people per Group 1) Ch 16.4 The Wars Impact / Postwar Turmoil The Red Scare 2) Ch 17.1 Politics of the 1920s / Republican Influence 3) Ch 17.2 A Growing Economy / The Rise of New The Model T Industries 4) Ch 17.3 A Clash of Values / Nativism & Racism Prohibition and the Klan 5) Ch 17.4 - Cultural Innovations / Art & Literature and Popular Culture and Sports 6) Ch 17.5 African American Culture / The Harlem Renaissance & Black Nationalism