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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
• 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
Americans owned more cars than bathtubs
• You can’t go to town in a bathtub.
Airplanes
• Wright Bros. 12/17/03
• Lindbergh takes the Spirit of St Louis New York to Paris in 33+ hours ($25K)
Radio
• Italian Marconi, 1890
• KDKA broadcasts Harding election results
• Amos and Andy, A&P Gypsies
• Advertising, soap operas, serials
First big silent film
First talkie
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
Harlem
• Langston Hughes with his common language poetry
• Marcus Garvey, United Negro Improvement Association, resettlement
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
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
Bull Market
• Investments hopping
• Melon reduces taxes
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