The U'S' in the 1920s

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POLITICS AND PARTIES America in the
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• The U.S. in the 1920s
• Chapters 12 13

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• Post WWI thoughts
• renewed isolationism
• resurgence of nativism
• politically conservative

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• Post WWI thoughts
• concerns about Russian Revolution
• monarchy (tsar) vs. communism (economic)
• May Day protests (military)
• mail bombs by Reds (political)
• Palmers Raids
• December, 1919--The Buford

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• Post WWI thoughts
• concerns over immigrants
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• concerns over rise in Ku Klux Klan activity
• Hiram Wesley Evans
• controlled three state governments
• anyone who wasnt W-A-S-P

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• Labor unrest
• strikes forbidden in WWI
• labor and management disagreements
• Boston Police Strike
• Steel Mill Strike
• Coal Miners Strike

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• Labor unrest
• unions lose appeal
• immigrants
• farmers and self-reliance
• African-Americans

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• Election of 1920
• Republicans
• Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge
• Democrats
• James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Socialists
• Eugene V. Debs

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• Hardings Domestic Agenda
• Washington Arms Conference
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff
• The Dawes Plan

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• Hardings Domestic Agenda
• Emergency Quota Act of 1921
• The Ohio Gang
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Nan Britton

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• 1923
• Harding dies
• Coolidge becomes President
• serves until Election of 1928
• nicknamed Silent Cal

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• America and Coolidges Presidency
• very pro-business
• promoted the automobile industry, thus changing
  the American landscape
• roads and highways--Route 66 (p. 423)
• houses with carports and garages
• gas stations and repair shops
• motor courts
• traffic signals

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• America and Coolidges Presidency
• airplane industry
• electrical conveniences
• irons
• refrigerators
• toasters
• ranges

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• America andCoolidges Presidency
• advertising and business growth
• advertising psychology
• business lunch meetings
• civic clubs like Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Clubs
• chain stores
• branch banks
• buying on credit
• rise in income gap

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POPULATION SHIFTS FROM 1870-1920
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CHANGING LABOR FORCE--1870-1920
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BUYING ON CREDIT
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• Rural and Urban differences
• rural life remained largely unchanged
• small towns and farms
• conservative moral values
• close social relationships
• church and school activities
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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• Rural and Urban differences
• cities experienced growth
• theaters
• museums
• libraries
• transportation
• housing
• moral values

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• Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• outlawed consumption, manufacture, sale,
  distribution, and transportation of alcohol in
  any form
• Prohibition Bureau
• Speakeasies and Bootleggers
• Rum Runners and Rumbleseats

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• Organized Crime
• underground gangs
• Al Capone
• white slavery and prostitution
• Moral Codes
• Utah
• Georgia
• Arkansas
• Jim Crow

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• Clash of Science and Religion
• Fundamentalism vs. Scientific Theory
• Aimee Semple McPherson--Four Square Gospel
• Charles Darwin--Social Darwinism

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• Clash of Science and Religion
• March, 1925
• Tennessee passed The Butler Law
• John T. Scopes, Dayton HS biology teacher
• Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan
• national attention
• verdict

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• Women change the rules
• emancipated women (Flappers)
• clothing
• hair
• attitude
• actions
• double standards
• new job opportunities

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• Changes in Family and Home life
• birthrate declined
• new inventions
• new products
• sliced bread
• store-bought clothes
• canned goods
• phones
• health clinics

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• Educational changes
• curriculum changes
• vocational curriculums
• taxes
• immigrants
• African-Americans
• separate but equal

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• Mass media changes
• newspaper and magazine sales
• William Randolph Hearst
• H.L. Mencken
• radio

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• Leisure Time
• games
• -a-thons
• sports
• Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey
• Satchel Page Gertrude Ederle
• Red Grange Charles Lindberg
• Knute Rockne
• Helen Wills

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• Leisure Time
• movies
• Charlie Chaplin
• Tom Mix
• Theda Bara
• Clara Bow
• Rudolph Valentino
• 1927--The Jazz Singer
• 1928--Steamboat Willie

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• Leisure Time
• theatre, art, literature
• plays
• music
• painting
• books

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• The Harlem Renaissance
• The Great Migration
• violence and race riots
• NAACP
• W.E.B. DuBois--The Niagara Movement (??)
• Marcus Garvey
• separate society
• UNIA
• The Black Star Line

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• The Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem, New York
• Literature
• Claude McKay
• Langston Hughes
• Countee Cullen
• Zora Neale Hurston
• James Weldon Johnson

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• The Harlem Renaissance
• Music
• Josephine Baker
• Paul Robeson
• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• Cab Calloway
• Bessie Smith

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