The “Roaring” Twenties
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The “Roaring” Twenties
The 1920s
Economy
Society
Politics
Economy
“Boom time”
Rebuilding Europe
Second Industrial Revolution
Calvin Coolidge
“…the chief business of the American people
is business…The man who builds a factory,
builds a temple. The man who works there
worships there."
Bruce Barton
The Man Nobody Knows
1925
Stock market
“Welfare capitalism”
Businesses providing benefits for
workers
Increase productivity
Reduce turnover
“fordism”
Construction
Automobile
plexiglas
radio
Motion pictures
“talkies”
Charles Lindbergh
Aviation
Social & Cultural “revolution”
Women’s rights movement
“Flappers”
ERA – Equal Rights Amendment
“Culture Wars”
Traditional vs. modern
Conservative vs. “progressive”
Rural vs. urban
“Nativism” - Anti-immigrant
Anti-German
Anti-pacifist
1917-1918 – Espionage Act
imposed heavy penalties on anyone
convicted of using "disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive language" about
the government, the Constitution, the flag
or the military
“Red Scare” – 1919-1920
Fear of “radicals” AND their methods
Anarchists
“Syndicalists”
“Bolshevism” (communism)
Anti-union
Emma Goldman
Anti-immigrant
“Red Scare” – 1919-1920
Methods
Mail bombs
Bombs
Wall Street
Sept 1920
Assassinations
“Red Scare” – 1919-1920
“Palmer raids”
U.S.S. Buford – “The Soviet Ark”
“Bolshevism and anarchism – Put them out and Keep them out”
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU)
Sacco & Vanzetti
“Second” Ku Klux Klan
Colonel William Simmons
Rural-Urban Conflict
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
“Speakeasies”
Gangsters
Al Capone
Machine Gun Kelly
Bugs Moran
J. Edgar Hoover
F.B.I.
Rural-Urban Conflict
“Modernists” vs. religious
fundamentalists
Teaching of Evolution
Scopes “Monkey” Trial, 1925
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Evolution on Trial
1920s Politics
Republicans dominate
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
1920s Politics
Democrats - split
Rural, southern, white supremacist
Urban, northern, immigrant
1920s Politics
Election of 1928
“New” Democrat
Al Smith
Urban
Child of immigrants
Catholic
Stock Market Crashes
Oct 29, 1929
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