THE 1920S: COPING WITH

CHANGE 1920-1929

Chapter 23

GUIDING QUESTIONS1.) What economic developments underlay

American prosperity of the 1920s, and how did those developments affect different social groups?

2.) What political values shaped public life in this era of Republican dominance?

3.) How did the Republicans of the 1920s promote U.S. economic interests abroad?

4.) What is meant by “mass culture”?

5.) What developments in American society contributed to creativity? Social tension?

BOOMING BUSINESS; AILING AGRICULTURE

After the War

Unemployment Rates during the 1920s

Home Appliances and the economy

Entertainment

THE AUTO INDUSTRY Mass Production

Assembly Lines

Henry Ford (Model T)

General Motors

Car Ownership

Auto-Related Industries

WORKERS Wages

Women’s Wages

Mexican-Americans

African-Americans

Last hired first fired

Farmers during the 1920s

CHANGING BUSINESSES Henry Ford’s

Approach to business

Ford Dealerships

General Electric and Westinghouse

Chain Stores

Air Conditioning

ADVERTISING Advertising Companies

Successful Marketing Techniques

Installment Plans

America becomes a consumer society

What types of things did people buy on credit?

WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE Female Employment

Secretaries, Typists, and Filing Clerks

Female Wages

Traditional Female Jobs

LABOR UNIONS Labor Union

Membership

Higher Wages

Henry Ford

Better Facilities

Stock Options

Welfare Capitalism

POLITICS Warren G. Harding

Charles Forbes (Head of the Veterans Bureau)

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Harding’s Death

COOLIDGE Calvin Coolidge

Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon

The Trickle Down Theory

The Flood of 1927

The Flood Control Act 1928

The McNary-Haugen Bill

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS The League of Nations

The Washington Naval Conference

The Five Power Treaty

The 5:5:3 Ratio

Arms Limitations

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

WOMEN AND POLITICS The 19th

Amendment

Alice Paul

The Equal Rights Amendment

What was the focus of the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1920s?

MASS MEDIA Radio

National Magazines

The Saturday Evening Post

The Movie Industry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZPzHg0h80

POP CULTURE National Sports Heroes

Babe Ruth

Charles Lindbergh

Cultural Values

Sigmund Freud

Flappers

POP CULTURE F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sinclair Lewis

Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Generation

The Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

Zora Neal Hurston

Marcus Garvey

POP CULTURE Georgia O’

Keeffe

Jazz

Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS

National Origins Act (1924)

Xenophobia

Sacco and Vanzetti

NEW SCIENCE John T. Scopes

The Scopes Trial

The “Monkey” Trial

The American Civil Liberties Union

William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow's opening argument at the Scopes trial

RACIAL ATTITUDES

The Rise of the KKK

The Birth of a Nation

PROHIBITION The 18th

Amendment

The Volstead Act

Bootleggers

Speakeasies

The 21st Amendment

THE END OF AN ERA Herbert Hoover

Republican Dominance

Overproduction

Declining Demand

The Great Depression