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Roaring 20s

Roaring 20s. Chapter 32, Part 2. Ford Changes Everything. 1910 69 car companies produce 180k cars Taylor—The Father of Scientific Management Model T- tin lizzy, affordable even by a Ford worker, $260 Made 500k by 1914, 20 million by 1930 The assembly line, control of workers. Gasoline Age.

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Roaring 20s

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  1. Roaring 20s Chapter 32, Part 2

  2. Ford Changes Everything • 1910 69 car companies produce 180k cars • Taylor—The Father of Scientific Management • Model T- tin lizzy, affordable even by a Ford worker, $260 • Made 500k by 1914, 20 million by 1930 • The assembly line, control of workers

  3. Gasoline Age • Bigger than steel, thousands of new jobs • Rubber, glass, fabric, steel, service stations, garages • Petroleum business!! California, Texas, Oklahoma • Highways, greatly improved commerce • Less isolation • Helped criminals

  4. Americans owned more cars than bathtubs • You can’t go to town in a bathtub.

  5. Airplanes • Wright Bros. 12/17/03 • Lindbergh takes the Spirit of St Louis New York to Paris in 33+ hours ($25K)

  6. Radio • Italian Marconi, 1890 • KDKA broadcasts Harding election results • Amos and Andy, A&P Gypsies • Advertising, soap operas, serials

  7. First big silent film

  8. First talkie

  9. Changing Times • Margret Sanger tries to popularize contraceptives • ERA campaign by Alice Paul • Flapper styles • Jazz! WC Handy (St. Louis Blues), Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver

  10. Harlem • Langston Hughes with his common language poetry • Marcus Garvey, United Negro Improvement Association, resettlement

  11. Cultural Changes • New Yorker Edith Wharton • Willa Cather, life on the praries • HL Mencken, Bad Boy of Baltimore, anti establishment • F Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise a book for the times • Hemingway The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms • Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis

  12. Writers/Artists • Ezra Pound’s poetry • TS Eliot, The Waste Land • Poet ee cummings • Playwright Eugene ONeill • Frank Lloyd Wright tries to create architecture from the site • 103 Story Empire State Building

  13. Bull Market • Investments hopping • Melon reduces taxes

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