The ROARING TWENTIES

The Red Scare

The end of WWI brought great rejoicing in America, but it was the beginning of new problems at home.

The nation faced economic and political turmoil that cast a dark shadow over the postwar recovery.

Farms and Factories lay silentSoldiers could not find jobs

100% Americanism

Celebrated all things American

While attacking ideas and people it viewed as foreign or anti-American.

RUSSIA

Russia became part of a new nations called the SOVIET UNION

They dreamt of establishing a new social system for their people and world -- Called COMMUNISM

-- no economic classes and no private property

Believed that all people should share equally in society’s wealth.

REACTION

Soviets wanted to overthrow capitalism.

AMERICANS EMBRACED CAPITALISM (ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN WHICH MOST

BUSINESSES ARE PRIVATELY OWNED)-- wanted to have the freedom to own their

own property.

Communists and others who held radical ideas became known as the: REDS

Red Scare

RED SCARE: Widespread fear of communism

HOW DID THE GOVERNMENT REACT??

PALMER RAIDS

A. Mitchell Palmer- a key leader of the federal government’s anti-Communist campaign.

Palmer Raid- Attack on suspected radicals. Used wartime laws that gave the government power

against radicals “Aliens” could face

DEPORTATION: REMOVING AN ALIEN FROM ONE COUNTRY

Labor Strife Grows

4 millions workers took part in more than 3000 strikes nationwide.

Workers believed that Wilson was focusing on a promoting his peace plan and not on the workers at home

Unions lost members and political power because of Red Scare (fear of workers overthrowing government)

Limiting Immigration

Rise of Nativism – distrust of foreigners, produced a culture clash between the nation’s earlier immigrants and it’s new ones.

National Origins Act of 1924 -- limits number of immigrants allowed (from Eastern European countries)

Also nearly eliminated all immigration from Asian Countries.

COLLINS I

Why does communism appeal to some people and to what groups it would be most likely to appeal. – Consider what groups might find communism threatening, and why.

Discrimination in the 1920s

View the Ku Klux Klan Marches in Washington D.C Why is the location of the parade important? What does the large crowd tell you about the KKK or

the perception of the KKK in the 1920s?

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Read Zora Neale Hurston’s essayWhat does her opinion of race as a child

versus as an adult tell you about race as a concept?

Do you think her feeling regarding race is optimistic or pessimistic?

When you are finished answer these two questions on the back.

Blues and Jazz: Bessie Smith & Duke Ellington

Why do you think the Blues came from the South?

Why do you think Jazz was invented in New York City?

Read the biographies on Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington

Listen to the music as you read and answer the questions to help you understand the movement

COLLINS II

“ Nothing is particularly hard if you divide into small jobs.”

- Henry Ford

- What does he mean by this? How can you relate this to how things are done today?

ASSEMBLY LINE a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product.

INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS: identical pieces of a whole, sped up assembly

Ford was also the first to build factories around that concept. It usually consists of 4 workers in control of one specific job and their work related movements are reduced to a minimum.

The NEW Consumer

New, cost-efficient manufacturing Refrigerators Vacuum cleaners Radio Commercial airplanes

Buy! Buy! Buy!INSTALLMENT BUYING: paying for an

item over time with small paymentsCREDIT: borrowing money to buy now!

IN YOUR ROWS

Figure out how you are going to complete the face as fast as you possibly can while doing it efficiently. Each row will be competing.

How does completing this assembly line change the way you look at how Henry Ford changed the times?

CHANGE IN WOMEN

Gibson Girl!!!

FLAPPERS