Lets Compare the 1920s with the 1990s

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Lets Compare the 1920s with the 1990s
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Harding

• Scandals (Tea Pot Dome)
• Return To Normalcy
• Economic Prosperity

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Calvin Coolidge

• Economic Prosperity
• Business of America is Business
• Silent Cal

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Clinton

• Economic Prosperity
• Scandals
• Is Clinton more like
• Harding or JFK?

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1920s Increased productivity and Technological
innovation

• Consumer Credit
• Rising Stock Market
• Increase in Consumer spending
• Henry Ford (Automobile)

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1990s and the increase in consumerism

• Consumer Credit
• Rising Stock Market
• Increase in Consumer spending
• Bill Gates(Computer)

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The Crash of 1929 At the end of the 1920s there
was a huge stock market crash that led to a great
depression.
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In the year 2000 immediately following the 1990s
there was a huge stock market crash often called
the DOT.COM Crash that resulted in a large
economic recession.
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Prohibition

• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
• Speakeasies
• Government Attempts at stopping drinking
• Rise of Gangster or Organized Crime

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The Rave Age

• The rise of illegal drugs
• Rave Parties
• Government Attempts to stop drug use (Social
  experiment)
• Rise of Gangstas

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The Trial of the Century

• Religious Fundamentalism
• Darrow Vs. Bryan
• Mass Media
• Sensationalism

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The Trial of the Century

• Sensationalized Trial
• Clark vs. Cochran
• Mass Media Spectacle

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The Great Migration

• Thousands of African Americans Moved to the
  north following WWI.

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The Harlem Renaissance
A cultural and literary movement centered in
Harlem.
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Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes
• Marcus Garvey
• Duke Ellington
• The Cotton Club
• Jazz

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Poets


Langston Hughes
Countee Cullin
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry
uplike a raisin in the sunOr fester like a
sore And then run?Does it stink like rotten
meat?Or crust and sugar over Like a syrupy
sweet? Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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Jazz
Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong The Cotton Club
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Marcus Garvey
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African Americans in the 1990s

• Toni Morrison
• Al Sharpton
• NWA
• Rap Music
• Public Enemy

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The KKK and the 1920s
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1990s Rodney King Beating
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Sports and Mass Marketing
Babe Ruth
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MJ
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Woman exercise more social freedom

• Flappers
• Smoked
• Went out
• Lived on own
• Liberated

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Women in the 1990s
Independent Smoked Went out Lived on their own
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• The 1920s were known for Inconsistencies
• Racism (Lynching) and the Harlem Renaissance.
• Prohibition and Speakeasys
• Flappers and yet Women were still not treated
  equally

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• Identify an inconsistency in American life.
• Today
• The Gilded Age
• Reconstruction
• Founding Fathers and the writing of the
  Constitution
• Why do inconsistencies occur throughout history?