The “Roaring” Twenties

The 1920s

Economy

Society

Politics

Economy

“Boom time”

Rebuilding Europe

Second Industrial Revolution

Calvin Coolidge

“…the chief business of the American people

is business…The man who builds a factory,

builds a temple. The man who works there

worships there."

Bruce Barton

The Man Nobody Knows

1925

Stock market

“Welfare capitalism”

Businesses providing benefits for

workers

Increase productivity

Reduce turnover

“fordism”

Construction

Automobile

plexiglas

radio

Motion pictures

“talkies”

Charles Lindbergh

Aviation

Social & Cultural “revolution”

Women’s rights movement

“Flappers”

ERA – Equal Rights Amendment

“Culture Wars”

Traditional vs. modern

Conservative vs. “progressive”

Rural vs. urban

“Nativism” - Anti-immigrant

Anti-German

Anti-pacifist

1917-1918 – Espionage Act

imposed heavy penalties on anyone

convicted of using "disloyal, profane,

scurrilous, or abusive language" about

the government, the Constitution, the flag

or the military

“Red Scare” – 1919-1920

Fear of “radicals” AND their methods

Anarchists

“Syndicalists”

“Bolshevism” (communism)

Anti-union

Emma Goldman

Anti-immigrant

“Red Scare” – 1919-1920

Methods

Mail bombs

Bombs

Wall Street

Sept 1920

Assassinations

A. Mitchell Palmer

June, 1919

“Red Scare” – 1919-1920

“Palmer raids”

U.S.S. Buford – “The Soviet Ark”

“Bolshevism and anarchism – Put them out and Keep them out”

American Civil Liberties Union

(ACLU)

Sacco & Vanzetti

“Second” Ku Klux Klan

Colonel William Simmons

Rural-Urban Conflict

Prohibition

18th Amendment

Volstead Act

“Speakeasies”

Gangsters

Al Capone

Machine Gun Kelly

Bugs Moran

J. Edgar Hoover

F.B.I.

Rural-Urban Conflict

“Modernists” vs. religious

fundamentalists

Teaching of Evolution

Scopes “Monkey” Trial, 1925

John Scopes

Clarence Darrow

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution on Trial

1920s Politics

Republicans dominate

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

1920s Politics

Democrats - split

Rural, southern, white supremacist

Urban, northern, immigrant

1920s Politics

Election of 1928

“New” Democrat

Al Smith

Urban

Child of immigrants

Catholic

Stock Market Crashes

Oct 29, 1929