The Roaring Twenties

1. The Roaring Twenties APUSH Chapter 22

2. Just the Facts • http://www.learn360.com/ShowVideo.aspx?ID=236364

3. Time of Transition • Urban and Rural • Immigration • Industrialization , economic expanison due to Europe’s post war problems • No regulation when economy is doing well, no need seen

4. Auto • Mass production • Assembly line – make one in less than 93 minutes • Later one every 60 seconds • Cars $500 bought on credit • Ford wants workers to be able to have a car themselves $5 a day, work boring and hard • Benefits – also worked vs. having people join unions

5. Production vs Purchases • Easy to produce goods • New industry – radio, airlines, motion picture industries for consumer goods or consumptions • Old industries – agriculture, coal mining, not doing as well • Little unemployment • Middle class increases

6. White Collar Workers • Division of labor between white color and blue color workers • Less autonomy over the workplace in corporations • Businessmen – status – make more money than laborers • Benefits

7. Blue Collar workers • Labor – AFL (American Federation of Labor) – skilled labor – could make more money, buy homes, do well – not accept African Americans • Unskilled blue color – not make enough money Immigrant workers

8. African Americans • African Americans • Go North to take any job at any level as 5 times higher than they earned in the South • Whites not want to work with blacks • Blacks not see value of unions as they are happy to get job • Women most domestic – limited opportunties • Some have own businesses and are also teachers and workers

9. Women • Some work in factories • Clerical work becomes women’s work for middle class women • Immigrants daughters in factory work • Agricultural jobs

10. Agriculture • Over planting – competing with South America and Europe • Profits go down for USA farmer • 1920’s difficult decade • Depression starts for them in the 1920s • Farmers deep in debt – buying tractors and more land in WWI when crops sold at a high price

11. Consumer Consumption • Autos • Electricity • Radio network – stations grow, advertising to the American public- reaches women – banishes isolation • One thing everyone had in common - radio • Advertising – wrote radio shows –soap opera as they were selling products • Talkies – movies with sound

12. Literary • F . Scott Fitzgerald • Harlem Renaissance – poetry, art, music with political caste • Art not for arts sake but to promote apolitical diea • Harlem thriving urban center, anger politically, but hope • Created vut promoted racial pride

13. More conservatives • Not flappers • For prohibition • Not happy with new ways • Prohibition – restraint on immgirants • Not enforceable

14. Immigration • Immigration = need for labor but a big controversey after WWI • Changing economic changes • Some americans not getting job • Closing the gats on racial terms • Based on populatio of 1890’s – Northwestern Europe • Only 2% of Southern Eurpe • Bigots – KKK • Support on White Anglo Saxon Protestant Americans

15. KKK 1920s • All over the country – city and country • Religious and immigrant threat • List of dangerous people who could change America • Hatred toward Immigrants – Eastern & Southern Europeans, Asians, Mexicans • Hatred toward Catholics, Jews • Immigrants lynched as well as blacks

16. Religion in 1920s • Not a party decade alone • Take religion seriously • Scopes Trial – should evolution be taught in pubic school • Publicity makes rural people look ignorant but the attention given shows holding onto an embattled way of life • Carried on the radio – wrestle with idea in pubic • South fear make African and Whites more equal

17. Democrats • Governor Smith of 1920’s – first urban wing with FDR • Southern part of the party – adverse to urban areas

18. Harding • Hired talented individuals • Hoover – one of the most popular and highly regarded Americans – Secretary of Commerce • Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes – important legal figure of 20th century – later Chief Justice • Harding – Teapot Dome Scandale Relationship of Secretary of Interior Fall for MrDoheny’s company • Harding trust in people who betrayed him

19. Coolidge • Silent Cal – not too exciting OK afer Harding scandals • Did bring in people who cleaned up the mess of Harding • “The business of America is Business” No regulations

20. Hoover • 1928 Hoover becomes candidate –own man and party bosses had no control over him • Economic well being • Urban areas voted for Al Smith – He did not lose because he was Catholic but because the economy was good and people were not feeling a need for a change