Roaring Twenties
Red Summer 1919
US attitude
Red Scare
Bolsheviks
Palmer Raids
“Buford”
Nicola Sacco andBartolomeo Vanzetti
Nativism
Ku Klux Klan
WASP
Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1929
Quota System
Prohibition (Noble Experiment)
Anti-Saloon League and WCTU
WWI
18th amendment (1919)
Speakeasies and Bootleggers
21st amendment
Al Capone
Scopes Monkey Trial – 1925
Fundamentalists vs. Modernists
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
Economic growth and prosperity
Mass consumption
Advertising
Appliances
Leisure time
Radio
Nickelodeons
“Birth of a Nation” 1915 - D.W. Griffith
“The Jazz Singer” 1927
Rise of the automobile
Henry Ford
Assembly line
Impact on industry
Wright Brothers 1903
Charles Lindbergh
Spirit of St. Louis
Margaret Sanger
Flappers
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Jazz Age
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Great Gatsby” 1925
Ernest Hemingway
“A Farewell to Arms” 1929
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
Warren G. Harding
Normalcy
“Ohio Gang”
Scandals
Teapot Dome 1923
Albert Fall
August 2, 1923
Calvin Coolidge
“SilentCal”
“The business of government is business”
Election of 1924
Rep. Calvin Coolidge
Dem. John Davis
Progressive Party Robert LaFollette
Labor unrest
Boston Police Strike 1919
“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”
Steel Mill Strike 1919
Coal Miner’s Strike 1919
United Mine Workers of America - John L. Lewis
International debt
1922 - $16 billion
Election of 1928
Rep. Herbert Hoover
Dem. Alfred Smith
“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land”
The Great Depression
Causes
Overproduction
Foreign debt
Consumer debt
Stock Market Frenzy
Bull Market
Buying on the Margin
Oct. 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday
Banking system
Dust Bowl
Causes
Okies
Route 66
The Grapes of Wrath 1939John Steinbeck
Herbert Hoover’s response
Rugged individualism
Industry meeting
Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Boulder (Hoover) Dam
Bonus Army 1932
Patman Bill
Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower
Vocabulary
Election of 1932
Rep. Herbert Hoover
Dem. Franklin DelanoRoosevelt
Polio in 1921 (Jonas Salk 1955), Eleanor,
pledges a New Deal to the American people
Brain Trust
Inaugural address
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
20th amendment – March to January
New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
“prime the pump”
First 100 days
Bank Holiday
Fireside chats
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933
TennesseeValley Authority 1933
Civilian Conservation Corps 1933
National Industrial Recovery Act 1933
National Recovery Administration
Public Works Administration
Gold Standard
Deficit spending
21st amendment
Securities and Exchange Act 1934
Social Security Act of 1935
Fair Labor Standards Act 1938
Supreme Court
Schecter Poultry Corp. v. US 1935
Sick Chicken Case
NIRA
US v. Butler 1936
AAA
Father Charles Coughlin
Court Packing Plan 1937
Effects of New Deal
How successful was the New Deal?
Yes…
But…