Postwar Blues

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Postwar Blues

• A. The end of the war meant the loss of many
  factory jobs. So unemployment went up.
• B. Inflation rose.
• C. Farmers ere still acing low crop prices,
  causing many to lose their land.

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Postwar recession

• A. Without a war, factories and farmers didnt
  have as big a demand for their products.
• B. All the soldiers coming home didnt ha jobs
  waiting for them, many became unemployed.

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Warren Harding 1920-23
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Calvin Coolidge
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The Business of America is Business
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Anti-Immigrant feeling in the 1920s

• The Russian Revolution had caused Americans to
  think that the Communists might try to take over
  America
• Protestants in America resented so many Catholic
  Immigrants
• Foreigners were willing to work for less than
  Americans, which lowered wages.

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The National Origins Act of 1924
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Red Scare
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The Rebirth of the KKK
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The Age of the Automobile
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Henry Ford
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The Tin Lizzie
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The Motel
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The Gas Station
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Suburbs
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The Interstate Highways
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Convenience
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All without leaving your car.

• Buy gasoline at a gas station (in the few areas
  where full service is still available)
• Have the car washed
• Obtain cash from an ATM
• Buy many different kinds of fast food, and eat it
  
• Buy freshly prepared coffee or other similar
  beverages
• Deposit mail for delivery by the postal service
• Drop off apparel for dry cleaning
• Pick up and pay for prescription drugs at a
  pharmacy
• Return library books, videotapes, or almost any
  other small object that is regularly lent to the
  public

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Pollution
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Consumerism
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Personal Freedom
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Gods Great Open Spaces

• "I will build a car for the great multitude. It
  will be large enough for the family, but small
  enough for the individual to run and care for. It
  will be constructed of the best materials, by the
  best men to be hired, after the simplest designs
  that modern engineering can devise. But it will
  be low in price that no man making a good salary
  will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his
  family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's
  great open spaces."-Henry Ford

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Consumerism

• The belief that personal happiness with the
  purchasing of material possessions and
  consumption.

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Advertising in the 1920s
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Advertising in the 1920s
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Sex in Advertising
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Lucky Lindy and the Spirit of St. Louis
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Scarface
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The Flapper
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Billie Holiday
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Amelia Earhart
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Jazz Music
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Art Deco
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School Buses
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The Scopes Monkey Trial
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The Harlem Renaissance
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George Herman Ruth
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Radio and Baseball
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Jack Dempsey the Manassa Mauler
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Black Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929