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