THE ROARING TWENTIES: A COMBINATION OF

CHAPTERS 12 AND 13

STANDARDS COVERED

CE 6.2.3 Analyze the domestic impact of WWI on

civil liberties.

AMERICAN STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR

ISSUES: SECTION ONEPOSTWAR TRENDS

Soldiers face job loss or obtain old jobs back

Farmers and factory workers overproduced goods

Standard of living costs rise

Nativism*

Isolationism*

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

FEAR OF COMMUNISM

A few principles of communism*

Vladimir Lennon and the Soviet Union

A communist party forms in the U.S. causes the “Red

Scare”

J. Edgar Hoover and Mitchell Palmer start to hunt down

communists, socialists, and anarchists*

Negative effects of the Palmer Raids lead to silence

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

• Sacco and Vanzetti*

• Many argued that they were

mistreated because they were

immigrants with radical

beliefs

LIMITING IMMIGRATION

• “Keep America for

Americans”—anti-immigrant

feelings arise

• KKK was devoted to being

“100 percent American”

AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

• KKK also targeted other

groups*

• Immigrant population grows,

so govt. creates the quota

system*

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY: SECTION TWO

Warren G. Harding*

HARDING STRUGGLES FOR PEACE

1921—he organizes a naval conference with the

U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy

Charles Evan Hughes*

France and Great Britain have to pay 10 mill. to

U.S.

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY

Fordney McCumber Tariff*

France and Great Britain

turn to Germany—U.S. uses

the Dawes Plan to repay

itself

SCANDAL HITS HARDING’S

ADMINISTRATION

Harding admitted to not

knowing how to solve issues

Harding’s Ohio Gang*

THE HARDING PRESIDENCY

• Teapot Dome Scandal

and Albert B. Fall*

• Fall receives 400,000 in

loans, bonds, and cash

• Found guilty of bribery*

• Death of Harding in

office; Calvin Coolidge

next pres.

STANDARDS COVERED

CE 7.1.1 Identify and explain the significance of the

cultural changes and tensions in the Roaring

Twenties including the struggle between

“traditional” and “modern” America.

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA:SECTION THREE

AMERICAN INDUSTRIES

FLOURISH

Calvin Coolidge*

Keep government

involvement to a minimum to

allow business growth

The creation of the car—

vacations, travel to get away,

dates, and jobs

Urban sprawl*

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA

Air mail delivered with planes

Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earheart*

Passenger flights happen with Pan Am

AMERICA’S STANDARD OF LIVING SOARS

We own 40 percent of the world’s wealth; $522 to

$705 average income

Americans start spending

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA

• The widespread use of

electricity makes

allowances for new

appliances: fridges,

toasters, stoves, washing

machines, sewing

machines, vacuums, etc.

• Lives of housewives

easier

• Advertisers higher

psychologists*

THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA

A SUPERFICIAL PROSPERITY

Productivity increases, businesses expanded

The income gap between workers and managers

expand

Farmers producing more with new machinery;

prices of food go down

Installment buying*Problems with it?

STANDARDS COVERED

CE 7.1.1 Identify and explain the significance of the

cultural changes and tensions in the Roaring

Twenties including the struggle between

“traditional” and “modern” America.

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE: SECTION ONE

PROHIBITION

Prohibition*

Reasons why people wanted prohibition*

1,500 poorly paid police officers and federal

agents deal with the issue

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE

Speakeasies*

Bootlegging*

Capone makes 60

million a year—killed off

his competition

Prohibition Video

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

CLASH

• Fundamentalism*

• Rejected the theory of

evolution—instead,

believe in the story of

creation

• ACLU found a teacher to

test a Tennessee state

law on evolution

CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan*

Scopes Trial*

Jennings Bryan made to look like a fool; Scopes

found guilty; fined $100