The “Roaring Twenties”

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The “Roaring Twenties”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclJ94h2oyQ. The 1920 Election. Wilson’s idealism and Treaty of Versailles led many Americans to vote for the Republican, Warren Harding… US turned inward and feared anything that was European…. Republican Policies. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The “Roaring Twenties”

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The 1920 ElectionWilson’s idealism and Treaty

of Versailles led many Americans to vote for the

Republican, Warren Harding…US turned inward and feared anything that was European…

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Republican Policies• Return to "normalcy" – tariffs raised–corporate, income taxes cut–spending cuts

• Government-business cooperation–“The business of government, is business”

• Return to “isolation”

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A Republican Decade – Republican Conservatives gain control of the White House and Congress and terminate the Era of the Progressives. The Part believes that the Economy and the Nation are better off if Business took the lead again. However, regulation will exist. Warren Harding –“Return to Normalcy” (1921-1923)•Policies favored Isolationism and disarmament (Washington Conference), and limits on Immigration.•Selected mostly highly qualified Administration that included Herbert Hoover, Andrew Mellon, and William Howard Taft. Some selections were poor and it lead to corruption and scandal…see Teapot Dome.•Looked to reduce Income Tax, Raise Tariffs, and set up the Bureau of the Budget.

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Harding and Coolidge• Republican presidents appeal to

traditional American values• Harding dies in office after 2 years.• Scandals break after his death–Teapot Dome Scandal

• Calvin Coolidge becomes President after Harding’s death in 1923.

Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall leased naval reserve oil land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, to oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. DohenyFall had received a bribe of $100,000 from Doheny and about three times that amount from Sinclair.Fall found guilty of taking a bribe.

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Calvin Coolidge – “Keep Cool with Coolidge” (1923-1929)•Idea was to bring back theory of Laissez-Faire and let businesses run themselves.•“The business of America is business.”•Cut back on Government spending (no bonus for war veterans).•Industry/Economy booms.

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+ + =$REPUBLICAN ECONOMY SUPPORTED LAISSEZ FAIRE AND BIG

BUSINESS……….

Lower Taxes Less Federal Higher Strong Spending Tariffs National

Economy

Fordney-McCumber Tariff---1923Hawley-Smoot Tariff ---1930

raised the tariff to an unbelievable 60%!!!

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Herbert Hoover – Run off of “Coolidge Prosperity” (1929-1933)•Continued economic boom due to various advancements in technology such as time-and-motion studies, scientific management, use of oil and electricity, and the perfection of the Ford Assembly Line.•Offer businesses tax cuts and fail to enforce anti-trust laws.•Decline of Union membership – “Welfare Capitalism”

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The “Roaring Twenties” -A New Culture •Consumerism – Consumer Economy – Rise of advertising and ability

of people to buy new items such as appliances, automobiles, and music. Also, consumers are presented with new ways of purchasing items such as credit and installment plans.

•Entertainment – New Jazz music played on radios and phonographs. The radio and movie industry boomed with companies like NBC and CBS and stars like Greta Garbo.

•Popular Heroes – Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Jim Thorpe, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart.

•Literature – “Lost Generation” – Called this because their work expressed dissatisfaction with earlier ideals and materialism (includes Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway).

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•Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA was a world pioneer of

commercial radio broadcasting.

• Transmitted 100 watts on a wavelength of 360 meters.• KDKA first broadcast was the Harding-Cox Presidential election returns on November

2, 1920.

• 220 stations eighteen months after KDKA took the plunge. • $50 to $150 for first radios

• 3,000,000 homes had them by 1922.

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• Radio sets, parts and accessories brought in $60

million in 1922…• $136 million in 1923 • $852 million in 1929

• Radio reached into every third home in its first

decade.

• Listening audience was 50,000,000 by 1925 (VERY IMP. FOR GREAT DEPRESSION & WWII)

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The “Roaring Twenties” -A New Culture •Role of Women – Saw no real changes except for those

who engaged in new activities and increased promiscuity. Examples include “Flappers.” Harlem Renaissance – Rise in African American popular culture during the 20’s in urban areas like Harlem. Actors, artists, writers, poets, singers, and musicians all expressed a range of emotions. Examples include Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Louie Armstrong. Art – Form follows function – Functionalism. Includes Frank Lloyd Wright.

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•Beginning of the Jazz Age in New York City

•Acceptance of African American culture

•African American literature and music

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The “Roaring Twenties” –Domestic Conflicts in Culture •Schenck v. U.S. – Suspension of right in country experiences a “clear & present danger.”

•Palmer Raids target Communists, Socialist, and Anarchists at feverish rate.

•Sacco & Vanzetti – Scapegoat Trial against two immigrants – both convicted & executed.

•Labor Strikes – Boston Police Strike – Coolidge uses National Guard to squash union activity.•Steel & Coal Strikes – (UMW) Government used injunctions to stop strikes and nullify labor laws.

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•Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian

immigrants charged with murdering a guard and

robbing a shoe factory in Braintree, Mass.

• The trial lasted 1920-1927. Convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their

anarchist and pro-union activities. • In this time period, anti-foreignism was high as well.

• Liberals and radicals rallied around the two men, but they would be executed.

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• Red Scare, 1919 to 1921, was a time of great

upheaval…U.S. “scared out of their wits".

• "Reds” as they were called, "Anarchists” or "Outside

Foreign-Born Radical Agitators” (Communists). • Anti-red hysteria came about after WWI and

the Russian Revolution. •6,000 immigrants the government suspected of

being Communists were arrested (Palmer Raids) and 600 were deported or expelled from

the U.S. • No due process was followed (Civil War? WWI?

Now?)

Attorney General Mitchell Palmer

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The “Roaring Twenties” –Domestic Conflicts in Culture •Teapot Dome Scandal – Under Harding, Cabinet members (Fall/Daugherty) accept bribes and payoff for contract to drill oil on Government property.

•Prohibition (Volstead Act) – Gives rise to bootleggers, speakeasies and organized crime – Al Capone. Prohibition was not repealed until 1933 21st Amendment.

•Rise in Different Religious Views – (A) Modernism – Faith in new ways-historical and critical view of Bible (support Darwin’s Evolution) (B) Fundamentalism – Bible must be accepted literally…Revivalists on the radio.

•Scopes Trial – Court action over the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in School – Bryan/Fundamentalist vs. ACLU/Scopes/Darrow.

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Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a hidden underground brewery during

the prohibition era.

Agent with the U.S. Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau during a time when bootlegging

was rampant throughout the nation.

Chicago gangster during Prohibition who controlled the “bootlegging” industry.

Al Capone Elliot Ness, part of the Untouchables

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John T. ScopesRespected high school biology

teacher arrested in Dayton,

Tennessee for teaching

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Clarence DarrowFamous trial lawyer who represented

Scopes

William J. BryanSec. of State for

President Wilson, ran for president three times, turned evangelical

leader. Represented the

prosecution.

Dayton, Tennessee

Small town in the south became

protective against the

encroachment of modern times and secular teachings.

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The “Roaring Twenties” –Domestic Conflicts in Culture •Nativism, Immigration Quotas, and KKK – After WWI, many feared the influx of “NEW” immigrants because of questions of loyalty, employment, religion, and possible problems. The government set up 2 quota laws in 1921 and 1924 that limited the amount of immigrants coming from Asia & Eastern/Southern Europe. •KKK – “Red Summer” leads to riots and increased tensions between whites & blacks…revival of Klan….targeted Catholics, African Americans, Jews, Communist etc. This is the popular version of the Klan with white hoods, lynching, and cross burnings.

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Rural Americans identify urban culture with Communism, crime, immorality Sex becomes an all-consuming topic of interest in popular entertainment

Communities of home, church, and school are absent in the cities Conflict: Traditional values vs new ideas found in the cities.

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Cartoon from 1919: “Put them out and keep them

out”

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IKAImperial Klans of America

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Rise of the KKK was due to the ever changing of a traditional America. 1925: Membership of 5 million1926: Marched on Washington.

Attack on urban culture and defends Christian/Protestant and rural valuesAgainst immigrants from Southern

Europe, European Jews, Catholics and American Blacks

Sought to win U.S. by persuasion and gaining control in local/state government.Violence, internal corruption result in

Klan’s virtual disappearance by 1930 but will reappear in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The “Roaring Twenties” –Domestic Conflicts in Culture Fighting the Discrimination – •NAACP tried to force Congress to pass anti-lynching laws and Marcus Garvey formed the UNIA, which focused on black nationalism/pride, separatism, economic self-sufficiency, and the Back-to-Africa movement. Also involved during this time was W.E.B. Du Bois.