THE 1920’S Jeanne Lanvin & Jean Patou. Fashion of the 1920’S.
The 1920’s
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The 1920’s
The Roaring 20’s The Era of Boom & Bust The Laissez-faire Era “A Time for Living on the Froth of Society” Innovation and Revolution The Inter-war Period The Birth of Social Revolution and
Modernization
Election of 1920
James Cox (D) Governor of Ohio- Urged adoption of the League of Nations
Warren G. Harding (R)Senator from Ohio- Called for a “Return to Normalcy.”
Republican National Convention
Deadlocked in 1920. Harding alternative in a “smoke-filled room” Ohio political machine. (cronies) “Were just regular folk” A return to Isolationism
Election of…?
Appointments (Good)
Charles Evans Hughes – Supreme Court Justice and former presidential candidate appointed to Secretary of State.
Herbert Hoover – Food Administration leader during WWI appointed to Sec. of Commerce.
Andrew Mellon – Pittsburgh industrialist and millionaire appointed Sec. of Treasury
William Howard Taft – Former President and WWI labor negotiator appointed to Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Appointments (Bad)
Albert B. Fall – appointed to Sec. of the Interior.
Harry M. Daugherty – appointed Attorney General.
Teapot Dome Scandal, Wyoming
Domestic Policy
1) a reduction in the income tax 2) an increase in tariff rates under the
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. 3) establishment of the Bureau of the Budget,
with procedures for all government expenditures to be placed in a single budget for Congress to review and vote on.
Washington Conference (1921)
Sec. of State Hughes pushes for conference. Reps. From Belgium, China, France, Great
Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
Three agreements were reached.
Agreement of Washington Conf.
First: 5-power: US 5
GB 5Japan 3France 1.67Italy 1.67
Agreement of Washington Conf.
Second4-power: U.S., France, G.B., Japan agreed to
respect one another’s territory in the Pacific.
Third9-power: Open Door policy with territorial
integrity of China.
Dichotomies of the 1920’s
Fundamentalism (religion) Birth control / divorce rates Red Scare Nativism (Quota Laws) Race Riots / Strikes Palmer Raids Prohibition Revivalists (Radio)
Modernism 19th Amendment (Suffrage) Social Revolution Jazz / Harlem Renaissance
Examples of Fundamentalism v. Modernism
Rise in the KKK The Great Migration The Scopes Trial Sacco and Vanzetti Case Blue Laws and Speakeasies Marcus Garvey