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The Twenties and the Crash of 1929

The Twenties and the Crash of 1929. Social Change New Woman Harlem Renaissance Reaction to Social Change Klan Fundamentalism The Scopes Trial The Crash of 1929 Financial Panic Causes of the Great Depression Consequences of the Crash .

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The Twenties and the Crash of 1929

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  1. The Twenties and the Crash of 1929 • Social Change • New Woman • Harlem Renaissance • Reaction to Social Change • Klan • Fundamentalism • The Scopes Trial • The Crash of 1929 • Financial Panic • Causes of the Great Depression • Consequences of the Crash

  2. New Woman > Magazine illustrations: “Gibson Girls” by Charles Gibson--a beauty standard of the 1900s--and a flapper by John Held, Jr. from the 1920s

  3. New Woman > Working-class women at the turn of the century

  4. New Woman > John Held, Jr.: Flappers have no manners or brains

  5. New Woman > John Held, Jr.: “It’s all right, Santa-- you can come in. My parents still believe in you.”

  6. New Woman > John Held, Jr., dustjackets for F. Scott Fitzgerald novels

  7. New Woman > Film Actress Louise Brooks and a comic strip she inspired

  8. New Woman > Actress Clara Bow, the ultimate flapper in It (1927) and Dangerous Curves (1929)

  9. Harlem Renaissaince > The Crisis Cover, 1929

  10. Harlem Renaissance > The Crisis Ad for Black Swan Records, 1923

  11. Harlem Renaissance > NAACP Anti-Lynching Ad in the New York Times

  12. Harlem Renaissance > Marcus Garvey’s Supporters Parade in Harlem

  13. Harlem Renaissance > Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke, “Sorry,” 1928

  14. Harlem Renaissance > Louis Armstrong, “Weather Bird,” 1928

  15. Klan in the 1920s > Timeline of Klan History • founded during Reconstruction, collapsed in 1870s • revived in 1915 (in part because of the movie Birth of a Nation) • resurgence of popularity in the 1920s, but collapsed again by the 1930s • again reappears in the 1950s

  16. Klan in the 1920s > Poster for the Film The Birth of a Nation by W.G. Griffith (1915)

  17. Klan in the 1920s > Washington, D.C. Parade against immigration

  18. Klan in the 1920s > Social Movements Supported by the Klan • prohibition • anti-immigrant sentiments • anti-radicalism • religious fundamentalism • morality and family values

  19. Fundamentalism > Timeline • Word coined at around 1910 • Denotes religious groups that take the Bible literally • Popular and active in the 1920s • Then the movement retreats from politics until 1980s, in part because of the Scopes Trial

  20. Fundamentalism > Church Membership in 1920s

  21. Fundamentalism > Actor Lionel Barrymore and Modern Christ

  22. Scopes Trial > Cartoon on Evolution

  23. Scopes Trial > William Jennings Bryan’s Cartoon against Modernity, 1924

  24. Scopes Trial > Cartoon comparing Bolsheviks and Scientists, 1925

  25. Scopes Trial > Bryan and Darrow

  26. Scopes Trial > Bryan as Don Quixote

  27. Scopes Trial > Darrow as a Street Player

  28. Scopes Trial > Monkeys Vote on Evolution

  29. The Crash > Economy Compared to Television, 1929

  30. The Crash > “It’s so nice to have Daddy home all the time now,” Life, 1930

  31. The Crash > “We can do it!” 1931

  32. The Crash > What Caused the Great Depression? • Financial panic • Stock market crash • Land speculation in Florida and Southern California • Bank failures • Mortgage foreclosures • Sales of new goods stagnated after 1926 • Unequal distribution of income reduced purchasing power • Depression in farming • Europe’s demand for US goods declines • Europe defaults on debt payment • Germany stops paying France and Britain • France and Britain stop paying US • Unavoidable economic cycles or could have been avoided if speculation was curbed and consumption encouraged?

  33. The Crash > Deportation of Mexicans, 1931

  34. The Crash > Jobs Listed by Race, 1939

  35. The Crash > Hooverville, 1933

  36. The Crash > Dust Bowl storm, 1930s

  37. The Crash > Farmers displaced by Dust Bowl

  38. The Crash > “Fundamentally, the ship was sound,” New Yorker, 1932

  39. The Crash > Popcorn

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