Bellwork: How did the Harlem Renaissance change America?

Notes: other changes in 1920s Homework: Americans on the

Move, 1920-1930

Agenda

Changes of the 1920s

Remember…you don’t need to write things down word for word. Pay attention to key details and use

abbreviations.

Postwar recession lasted 2 years as businesses

adjusted to reduction in orders and increase in available labor force

Availability of new consumer goods lead the change to drive the gross national product over $70 billion in 1922, and over $100 billion by 1929 GNP is the total value of all goods and services

produced New technologies allowed businesses to lower

prices and increase profits

Economic Changes

60% of American homes had electricity in the

1920s, opening way for increase in home products Refrigerators, stoves, vacuum cleaners, fans and

radios became increasingly popular for household use

Resulted in a transformation in daily life as people had less time on chores and more time for leisure.

Propaganda techniques from war turned into advertising techniques to sell the new products.

Consumer Economy

Installment buying (credit) was

used by many to purchase new cars.

Resulted in increase in other industries: highways, gas stations, rest stops.

Increased profits from tourism Growth of suburbs as people could

travel farther between jobs and homes

Automobile Age

Changes & Developments

Charles Lindberg became the 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic

19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in all states women had more freedom

and traditional values were shifting

Movies and Radio brought entertainment into everyday life

Clash of cultures as social norms changed lead to temperance movement

18th Amendment outlawed manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor in the U.S.

While prohibition succeeded in the south and midwest, in the cities it created further problems

Speakeasies opened as illegal clubs, and bootlegging illegal alcohol were lead by organized crime Al “Scarface” Capone controlled organized crime and

politics in Chicago. Prohibition was realized as a failed experiment and

repealed in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.

Prohibition

Fear of communism grows—Red Scare Racial tensions grow, and nativism

revives the Ku Klux Klan Congress passes quota laws to limit

immigration Conflict between science and religion

with the Scopes Trial between creationism and evolution

Time of Turmoil