WWI

1. WWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBWDQ5cF_U&list=PLvGgZ5v2o_N8dDogxreL2-NbnfKHgHxqY&index=2

2. Taking notes What are the impacts of the war on people’s thinking (think of what Fowler talked about) What are the specific impacts of the war on the United States? What does Lodge appeal to in his arguments against the L of N? What are Wilson’s main arguments in favor? Are the attitude shown by Wilson and Lodge similar in any way?

3. King’s grandfather

4. The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict

5. 1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age" • in sum, a period of great change in American Society – “modern” America is born at this time • for first time the census reflected an urban society – more people lived in cities and enjoy a higher standard of living

6. Ageof Prosperity • Economic expansion • Mass Production • Assembly Line • Age of the Automobile

7. Consumer Economy “A change has come over our democracy…It is called consumptionism. The American citizen’s first importance to his country is now no longer that of citizen but that of consumer”

8. Radio!

9. It was also time of great economic inequality:Share of wealth of owned by richest 0.1 percent

10. The top 0.01 % of the population averaged nearly 900 times the income of the bottom 90% of the population in 1928, right before the stock market crash and depression In 2006, that ratio was nearly 1,000 times and in a little more than a year, the nation’s economy plunged into the worst recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s,

11. an agricultural depression in early 1920's contributed to this urban migration • U.S. farmers lost agricultural markets in postwar Europe • at same time agri. efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed • so farming was no longer as prosperous, and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed) and U.S. farmers enter a state of economic depression BEFORE the Great Depression

12. Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty • sharecropping kept them in de facto slavery • 1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop • white landowners went bankrupt & forced blacks off their land

13. Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form, i.e. Harlem • within these ghettoes a distinct African-American culture flourished

14. Tulsa Race Riot-maybe the worst in U.S. history

15. One of the last living eyewitnesses • Olivia Hooker, now over 100 years old, was six at the time of the riot. • Over the course of 18 hours, white mobs destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.

16. Culture of the Roaring 20’s Radio KDKA Pittsburgh GE, Westinghouse,& RCA form NBC Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin “Talkies” The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”

17. The 20’s isThe Jazz Age The Flappers make up cigarettes short skirts Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington

18. Celebrities Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb “I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”- Ruth’s reported reply when a reporter objected that the salary Ruth was demanding ($80,000) was more than that of President Herbert Hoover's ($75,000) Jack Dempsey

19. Conservative Backlash Rise of the KKK and anti-immigrant feelings Anti-labor Return to “traditional” values Science v. religion

20. Prohibition 18th Amendment Volstead Act Gangsters untouchables Al Capone

21. PROHIBITION - on manuf. and sale of alcohol • adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT • an outgrowth of the longtime temperance movement • in WWI, temperance became a patriotic mvmt. - drunkenness caused low productivity & inefficiency, and alcohol needed to treat the wounded • a difficult law to enforce... organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers were on the rise • Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period - Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w/ the 21st Amendment • forced organized crime to pursue other interests…(and they were successful!!)

22. 1920's major changes for women... • During WW1, many women had entered the workforce • 1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote • after 1920, social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home • and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions

23. In 1919, U.S. Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage Led to Palmer Raids, followed a series of bombings by anarchists/radicals

24. Palmer Raids • 6,000 immigrants suspected by the government of being Communists were arrested and 600 were deported without due process. Referred to as “aliens.”

25. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Italian immigrants Convicted of armed robbery, evidence was flimsy, and despite protests but they convicted and executed in 1927

26. The Ku Klux Klan Great increase In power Anti-black Anti-immigrant Anti-Semitic Anti-Catholic Anti-women’s suffrage Anti-bootleggers

27. 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial Evolution vs. Creationism John Scopes was charged with violating a Tennessee state law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution. He was convicted but the ruling was overturned Science vs. Religion

28. Mexican Repatriation 1929-39 • People from Latin American countries were excluded from the 1924 National Origins Act • However during the 1930s, the U.S. “repatriated” an estimated 500,000 Mexicans • Repatriation is not really an accurate term because many of these people were U.S. citizens living here.

29. Why do you think they were deported?

30. Bracero Program 1942-1963 1942-1945, 300,000 Mexican men worked in the U.S. Then WW2 came along and the U.S. wanted them back

31. “Boom to Bust” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7ftyZigYs&t=1178s