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1920’S UNIT REVIEW:
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
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The Automobile Culture:
1. How did the Model T revolutionize the
American economy?
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Ford River Rouge Complex
Massive production facility cut costs
Mastered assembly line process
Copied by other manufacturers
Lower costs led to low prices for consumer goods
Consumption skyrockets
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Buying on Credit
Installment plan:
A system that lets
customers make partial
payments (installments)
over a period of time until
the total debt is paid
Consumers buy things on
credit they otherwise
wouldn‘t buy
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The Automobile Culture:
2. What is a consumer culture and why did it
develop in the 1920s?
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Rise of a Consumer Economy
Consumer economy: An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by consumers—individuals who use (or ―consume‖) products
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The Automobile Culture:
3. How did the automobile revolutionize
American culture?
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By 1929, most middle-class
Americans in cities or towns
would most likely own:
--Car
--Washing machine
--Radio
--Refrigerator
--Other small
appliances
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Things That Led to More
Independence
25% women worked outside the home
Automobiles
New social values
Voting rights
Freud: New ideas about sexuality (It‘s normal
and healthy)
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The Automobile Culture:
4. How did the automobile change living
patterns?
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Ford Model-T
Most popular car in
America in the first three
decades of the 20th
century
$1000 when introduced in
1908
Model T's cost fell every
year
Less than $300 in 1927
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1920: One car
for ever 15
people
1929: One car
for ever 5 people
Result:
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Popular culture; radio; jazz; heroes of
the 20s:
1. Why did a national culture develop in the
1920s?
2. What impact did the radio have on popular
culture?
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Mass Media Creates a National
Culture
Chain stores, branch
banking, national
brands, etc.
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Seeing same movies, listening to same radio
shows
Creates common ground that breaks down
ethnic boundaries in America's cities
What does that today?
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Mass Media
National Radio
Shows
Hollywood
Movies
National
celebrities
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Popular culture; radio; jazz;
heroes of the 20s:
3. How did trends in fashion and music reflect
the spirit of the times?
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After WWI
Americans wanted to rejoice and redefine
themselves
Rejected the past
Led to new lifestyles and social values
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Life of a Flapper•Wild partying
•Smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol
–unheard of if you were a woman!
•Lived reckless lives and clung to
youth
•Flappers were the first of the women
to flaunt their sexuality
•Their lifestyles were shown in the
way that they dressed and danced
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The Flapper Look
•Wore heavy make up
•Clothes: a dress just below the knee,
stockings, heels no corset
•The look was influenced by Coco
Chanel
•Gender bending—tightly wrap their
chest to flatten it
•The ―Tube‖—Lower hipline and
straight from shoulders to hem
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THE JAZZ AGE
The era from right after WWI until the stock
market crash in 1929, during which jazz
increased in popularity. It was a reaction to the
hardship of the war and was characterized by
prosperity, extravagance and self-indulgent
behavior
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Popular culture; radio; jazz;
heroes of the 20s:
4. Who were the most popular heroes of this
time? Why did hero worship become popular?
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Rise of the National Celebrity
Hero worship: Intense or excessive admiration
for a hero or a person regarded as a hero;
seen widely in the 1920‘s
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Babe Ruth
Baseball hero of
1920‘s pop culture
Helped popularity of
baseball to explode
714 career home
runs and 2,814 hits
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Charles Lindberg: Celebrity Pilot
First non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1927
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Seeing same movies, listening to same radio
shows
Creates common ground that breaks down
ethnic boundaries in America's cities
What does that today?
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Organized crime; Cultural
backlash; Scopes Trial:
1. Why did Prohibition lead to organized crime?
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Underground Market Booms
Estimated income of bootleg liquor
industry in 1929: $3 billion
Entire United States federal budget in
1929: $2.9 billion18
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Rise of Organized Crime
• Prohibition created huge consumer market unmet by legitimate means
• Meant that criminals ran the market
• Criminals get rich
• In 1927 Al Capone makes $60 million
• Organized crime gainspower in cities
• Increases lawlessness
Al Capone
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Organized crime; Cultural
backlash; Scopes Trial:
2. How did organized crime affect the American
way of life?
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Weakened Law Enforcement
Leads to public contempt for police
Organized crime leaders, bootleggers and
speakeasies pay bribes to cops
In 1927, Al Capone had half of Chicago‘s
police on his payroll
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Organized crime; Cultural
backlash; Scopes Trial:
3. What is the connection between the religious
revival of the 1920s and the Scopes Trial?
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Clash of Cultures
Opening statements pictured the trial as a titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance.
Bryan claimed that ―If evolution wins, Christianity goes." Darrow argued, "Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial."
Vs.
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Showdown: Modernists v.
Traditionalists
In response to new social patterns of
modernism, a wave of revivalism developed
Trial emerged as a conflict between social and
intellectual values
Journalists looking for a showdown—who
would dominate American culture?
Traditionalists or modernists?
OR
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Organized crime; Cultural
backlash; Scopes Trial:
4. Why did the Scopes trial become the ―trial of
the century‖?
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Clash of the Titans
Case argued by the
two most famous
figures possible: a
showdown of rivals
Darrow represented
modernity
Bryan represented
tradition
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Showdown: Modernists v.
Traditionalists
In response to new social patterns of
modernism, a wave of revivalism developed
Trial emerged as a conflict between social and
intellectual values
Journalists looking for a showdown—who
would dominate American culture?
Traditionalists or modernists?
OR
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Harlem Renaissance:
1. What was the connection between the Great
Migration and the Harlem Renaissance?
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Title
1930
1920
1911
1920
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Harlem Renaissance:
2. What was unique about the artists‘ message?
3. How did this movement affect American pop
culture and perceptions of African-Americans?
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Music: Jazz
• Began with African-American musicians in New Orleans and transported North during Great Migration
• Blended blues and ragtime with improvisation and syncopated rhythms to produce totally new sound
• Has been called the single greatest contribution Americans have made to world culture
• Jazz influenced all American popular music that came after it
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Literature
At the same time, African-
American authors were
giving their own voice to
the experience of being
black in America
Plays depicting African-
Americans with complex
emotions are put on stage
(challenged minstrel
images)
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Harlem Renaissance:
4. Who were the major figures of the Harlem
Renaissance?
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LANGSTON HUGHES
Poet, playwright and
novelist
His first collection of poems:
I, Too, Sing America (1925)
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Novelist, short story writer,
folklorist and anthropologist
Novel: Their Eyes Were
Watching God
Major influence on Ralph
Ellison, Toni Morrison and
Alice Walker
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INTELLECTUALS:
MARCUS GARVEY
Became convinced uniting blacks only way to improve their condition
Founded the United Negro Improvement Association in 1914 to unite blacks
Back-to-Africa movement
Goal to form their own country
Black Star Line: fleet of ships used by the UNIA
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Red Scare and the Palmer Raids;
Immigration reform:
1. What made Americans ―afraid‖ of radical
ideas?
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Russian Revolution
Czar Nicholas II is
unpopular due to WWI
and high casualties
Forced to give up power
Leads to a communist
revolution in 1917
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Labor Strikes Make U.S. Leaders
Nervous
1919: A wave of labor strikes sweeps nation
after Armistice
Boston Police Strike
Steel and Coal Strikes
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Strikes Broken Up By Force
Nervous business
owners fear
Communists have
infiltrated their workers
In reality, cost of living is
twice what it was before
the war
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Red Scare and the Palmer Raids;
Immigration reform:
2. What actions did the federal government take
against suspected radicals?
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Palmer Raids
A campaign of raids to
identify and root out groups
whose activities posed a
"clear and present danger"
to the country, such as
communists, socialists and
anarchists
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Red Scare and the Palmer Raids;
Immigration reform:
3. How did this change immigration to the US?
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Quota
Numerical limit on
immigrants from each
foreign nation
Quotas set low for
Eastern and Southern
Europe
Asian immigration
banned
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Red Scare and the Palmer Raids;
Immigration reform:
4. What were the long term effects of the Red
Scare?
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Red Scare
An intense fear of communism and other ideas
considered extreme
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New Immigration Laws
•1921 Emergency Quota
Act: Sets quota for each
country to the # of people
from that country living in
the U.S. in 1910
•1924 Immigration Act:
Sets quota for each
country to the # of people
from that country living in
the U.S. in 1890
•Reduces immigration of
―New Immigrants‖ by
97%
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The Great Migration; Rise of the
KKK:
1. What caused African-Americans to move from
the South?
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Push Factors:
Why to Get Out of the South
Jim Crow laws
Lynching and KKK
Flood
Boll Weevil infestation
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The Great Migration; Rise of the
KKK:
2. Why did conditions in the North appealed to
African-Americans?
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Pull Factors:
Why to Head North
Jobs
NAACP
Leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois
and Booker T. Washington
inspire people
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The Great Migration; Rise of the
KKK:
3. What impact did the Great Migration have on
American racial relations?
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Racial Conflict
African-Americans face
anger and hatred from
whites
Whites fear job
competition
Black women often
domestics in white
households for low wages
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The Great Migration; Rise of the
KKK:
4. Why did the Ku Klux Klan experience a revival
in the 1920‘s and how was it different than the
KKK of the past?
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Some Factors That Lead to Rise of
KKK
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Film: Birth of a Nation
•1915 silent film
glorifying the KKK during
the Civil War era
•Highest-grossing film of
the silent era
•Remained highest-
grossing film for 22
years
•Helps to revive the
KKK, which had mostly
died out in the 1870‘s
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Presidents of the 1920s;
Economic Boom:
1. How did Harding and Coolidge reflect the
laissez-faire theory?
3. Why was the 1920‘s a ―great time to be rich‖?
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Warren G. Harding, (R) 1921-1923
Elected on campaign of ―a return to normalcy‖
Considered by some historians to be worst president in history
Hostile to government regulations from Progressive era
Staffs regulatory agencies with officials from the industries meant to be regulated
Many regulators are philosophically opposed to government regulation and deeply corrupt
Worst President Ever?
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A Great Time to Be Rich
Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon lowers
income tax rates for wealthiest Americans
from 73% to just 25%
Investors enjoy one of the greatest periods
of market growth in U.S. history
The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks
in 1929 at more than six times its value in
1921
Less than 1% of U.S. population owns
stock, so directly benefits only the wealthy
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Presidents of the 1920s;
Economic Boom:
2. How did the Teapot Dome scandal affect the
American Presidency?
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding‘s Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, gives away oil drilling rights on federal land for $300,000 in bribes
Fall later goes to jail
The worst of several scandals in Harding‘s administration
Harding dies before full extent of scandal comes to light
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Calvin Coolidge (R), 1923-1929
Harding's replacement
Also an economic conservative
Reputation for respectability
Most famous for saying "the business of America is business‖
‗Coolidge Prosperity‘ defines the 20s: Robust economic growth and widespread affluence
Known as ―Silent Cal‖
Show me the money
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Presidents of the 1920s;
Economic Boom:
4. Why was the wealth and economic success of
the 1920‘s not felt by farmers?
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A Terrible Time to Be a Farmer
Collapse of agricultural prices in 1920
Poverty, crushing debt and foreclosures
During WWI U.S. farmers benefit from high demand and high prices throughout the world
Many European farmers can‘t produce during war, which drives up prices
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Farmers Left Behind
From 1920 to 1921, farm prices fall at catastrophic rate
Price of wheat falls by ½
Price of cotton falls by ¾
Farmers suddenly can‘t make payments
Rural wealth falls far behind urban wealth
More than 90% of U.S. farms still lack power into the 1930‘s
Rural access to telephones actually falls during the 20‘s
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