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America in the 1920s: Politics, Prosperity, and Turbulence

Explore the dynamic decade of the 1920s in America, from economic booms and political scandals to social transformations and cultural revolutions. Witness the rise of consumer culture, the impact of prohibition, women's rights advancements, and the vibrant Jazz Age. Delve into the influence of figures like Henry Ford and Langston Hughes, and the challenges of racism, nativism, and the Red Scare. Uncover the complexity of a pivotal era in American history.

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America in the 1920s: Politics, Prosperity, and Turbulence

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  1. The Roaring Twenties

  2. Politics and Prosperity • Recession: an economic slump • The U.S went into a recession because the factories stopped turning out war materials • Warren G. Harding takes office in 1920 • The Ohio Gang: Harding’s cabinet consisted of his old friends—getting the name “Ohio gang”

  3. Politics and Prosperity • Teapot Dome Scandal • Sec. of Interior Albert Fall was bribed by 2 oil executives • Fall secretly leased them gov’t land in California and @ Teapot Dome, Wyoming • Coolidge takes office • Industry booms • Most Americans incomes rose • Sales of consumer goods rose

  4. Politics and Prosperity New ways: • Installment buying-buying goods on credit, paying over time • Buying on Margin: purchasing a stock for just 10% down payment of the price of the stock • Ex: Stock costs $10, the investor would put down $1, down the road the person would have to pay the remaining balance • Bull Market: increase stock trading and rising stock prices

  5. Politics and Prosperity Foreign affairs: • Communism: economic system in which all the wealth and property is owned by the community—this is being implemented by Lenin in Russia, but the government is controlling everything, not the community • Disarmament: reduction of weapons and forces • Kellogg-Briand Pact: treaty outlawed war

  6. New Ways of Life Ban on Alcohol: • 18th amendment • Bootleggers • Speakeasies • Rise of organize crime=mob and gangsters New rights for women • 19th amendment gave women the right to vote • League of Women voters

  7. New Ways of Life • ERA-equal rights amendment: rights shall not be denied based on gender • Women’s work: women had new opportunities at home and at work The Car: • Henry Ford and the assembly line • Made cars more affordable

  8. New Ways of Life The Car: • Economic effects: • Tourism, travel and more • Suburbs created • Created many jobs • Social effects • Suburbs-community located outside the city • The car allowed for the development of the suburbs

  9. New Ways of Life Mass culture • A National culture created by: cars, music, radio, fads, and more • Radio • Families would gather around after dinner • News and entertainment • Movies • Charlie Chaplin • Silent movies

  10. The Jazz Age Era of Changing Fashions: • Fad: activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short amount of time • Flappers: young women that rebelled against traditional ways of thinking • Wore dresses short • Hair bobbed • Red lipstick

  11. The Jazz Age • Jazz: combined West African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals and European harmonies • Louis Armstrong • Writers: • Fitzgerald • Hemmingway

  12. The Jazz Age Harlem Renaissance • Rebirth of African American culture • Large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem Writers • Langston Hughes: poet, expressing in poetry the life of African Americans of the 1920’s

  13. Trouble below the Surface Red Scare • Fear of communism spreading through America • Anarchists-people who opposed organized government

  14. Trouble below the Surface Sacco and Vanzetti • Two Italian immigrants in Massachusetts were arrested for murder • Admitted anarchists • Limited evidence against them • Convicted and put to death

  15. Trouble below the Surface Limiting Immigration • Nativism---anti-foreigners • Emergency Quota act-set up a quota system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter

  16. Trouble below the Surface Scopes Trial • Clash between old and new values • Evolution v. Religion • John Scopes a Biology teach in Ohio taught evolution and was arrested • Scopes was convicted and fined

  17. Trouble below the Surface Racism • 1915 rebirth of the KKK • Marcus Garvey-Universal Negro Improvement Association

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