A Period of Conflict o Strikes

o 1 out of 5 workers went on strikeo No war jobs primarily in steel industryo Strikes blamed on Bolshevism (Communism)

o RED SCARE o Immigration brought fear Post - WWI

o Race Rioto The “togetherness” of WWI is gone and

integrated urban areas leads to conflict due to lack of jobs

o 25 race riots in 1919 alone o Blacks joining communist party

URBAN VS. RURAL Throughout the 1920s, Americans found themselves caught between urban and rural cultures Urban life was considered a world of anonymous crowds, strangers, moneymakers, and pleasure seekers Rural life was considered to be safe, with close personal ties, hard work and morals

Cities were impersonal

Farms were innocent

The Red ScareO Fear of domestic radicalism after Russian

Revolution (1917)OAmericans assumed the

worst.OA “communist conspiracy.”

throughout the US

Advertising o Advocate of consumer culture and its use rose

tremendously in the 1920s – mouth piece for consumer culture

o Ads aimed many times at women as new technology aimed to give women more leisure time and less housework

o Bruce Barton – tremendous agent of ads who began to talk to producers about how to “get” to “consumers” – changed America

o A rise in the consumer culture instead of product culture: CONSUMER PRODUCT 1. Leisure Time 1. Hard Work2. Spend $$$ 2. Save $$$3. Enjoy Yourself 3. Self-Discipline

Ku Klux Klano 1920s sees a revival in Ku Klux Klan

o Used fear of change (blacks in north and immigrants in the south) as way of reviving old methods of hatredo Tied to economic woes

o Over 5 million members who seemed to need rituals, pageantry, and secrecy (similar to country during WWI)

o Klan was not just anti-black,… (WASP)o Anti…immigrant, Catholic, Jewish

o Tremendous fear of immigrants and sweeping attitude of returning to “good old days” o Harding calls it NORMALCY

o KKK pushes for immigration restrictions (which do occur) and uses patriotism as their selling point o 1921/1924 immigration acts

o KKK declines as leadership crumbles under charges of tax evasion and moral misdemeanors

The Ku Klux Klan Great increase

In powerAnti-black

Anti-immigrant

Anti-women’s suffrage

Anti-bootleggers

Anti-Semitic

Anti-Catholic

Automobile o The car was at the center

of change and progress in U.S. during the 1920s

o Henry Ford – Assembly Lines

o Went to Detroit at age 16o Talked to Thomas

Edison about engines o Did not invent the car

but he was the key figure in mass production o 8,000 cars owned in 1900o 500,000 cars owned in

1908o 8,000,000 cars owned in

1920o Changed our society and

our thinking

Women in the 1920s o Flappers

o “new breed of women”o Wore short skirts, bobbed hair, excessive

makeupo Going against social norms of the day

o More jobs available for women after WWI o Growing economy made room for women to join

the workforce o 19th amendment

o Women getting the right to vote o Equal Rights Amendment

o men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction

“Flappers”

Popular Cultureo Literature

o The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald o All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria

Remarqueo The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

o Musico Jazz became the most popular musico Country music was on the rise

o Dancing o Dance clubs become popularo Foxtrot, waltz, American tangoo The Charleston

o Sports o Babe Rutho Lou Gehrigo Jack Dempsey

CelebritiesBabe Ruth &Ty Cobb

Jack Dempsey

Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles LindberghOThe greatest hero of

the 1920sOThe first person to fly

an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean alone

OFlew from New York to Paris

OCalled “Lucky Lindy” because he had to fly for 33 ½ hours and didn’t carry a parachute, a radio, or a map

Prohibition o 18th Amendment

o National ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol from 1920-1933

o 21st Amendment ratified and alcohol was once again legal

o Government tried to enforce the new lawo By 1925 close to 50,000 speakeasies in

New York City o Limited the consumption of alcohol

but increased criminal activity o Organized crime and bootlegging

o Powerful mobs and gangs used the black market to sell alcohol

o Corruption in law enforcement, racketeering

o Al Caponeo American gangster –The Chicago

Outfito Sent to prison on tax evasion –

Alcatraz

The Jazz Scene o The Jazz Age

o Emergent of Jazz music and dance o The Charleston o African Americans credited with the the new jazz

scene o Became socially accepted for the middle class o Many young Americans used jazz as a way to rebel

against mainstream o Bessie Smith

o Progressive women in the Jazz ageo Influence many other women and African American

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o The Birth of Jazz

The Harlem Renaissance

o Cultural Movement throughout the 1920s

o Explosion of African American pride and culture

o Notable Peopleo Louis Armstrongo Langston Hugheso W.E.B. DuBoiso Duke Ellington o Bessie Smitho Ella Fitzgerald o Marcus Garvey

Stock Market Crash

o Economy and lifestyle was boom throughout the 1920s

o Technological innovations of the decade o Radio, automobile,

aviationo Black Tuesday

o October 1929 o The entire country was

turned upside down o Lead the great

depressiono Brought the roaring

1920s to a stop

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