1920's Culture and Economics

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1920's Culture and Economics
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Pro-Business

• 20s Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
• Pro-Business
• Republican
• Keep taxes down in order to allow businesses to
  expand
• High tariffs on foreign goods to force Americans
  to buy American

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Major Changes

• Airplane use expanded package delivery -gt
  Passenger flights (Charles Lindbergh Emilia
  Earhart)
• Fords Model T 290
• New businesses gas stations, motels, shopping
  centers
• Urban Sprawl people living further away from
  work (Suburbs)

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Lindbergh and Earhart
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Model T
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New Inventions

• Electricity in the Home
• Washing Machine
• Vacuum Cleaner
• Sewing Machine
• Refrigerator
• Birth of the Advertisement Industry

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1920's Advertisement
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Fundamentalism

• Movement created in the 19th century but grew in
  the U.S. in the 20s (especially the South)
• Skeptical of Science
• All important knowledge could be found in the
  Bible
• Literal translation of the Bible

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Science v. Religion

• March 1925 Tennessee outlawed teaching of
  evolution
• John T. Scopes challenges law and is arrested
• Monkey Trial Scopes defended by Clarence
  Darrow v. Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan
• Scopes found guilty and fined

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Darrow and Bryan
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Scopes Trial
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20's Women

• Flapper Free-thinking young woman who embraced
  the fashions of the 1920s
• New Roles in workplace and family
• Double Standard different set of principles for
  men and women

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Flapper
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Expansion of Education
Pg. 446-447 Before 1920 During the 20s
Enrollments
Types of Courses
Immigrants
Financing
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Emergence of Pop Culture

• Radio Broadcast nationwide
• Jazz and Blues 2 American born forms of music
• Sports Stars are born
• Americans begin going to the movies

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1920's Radios
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4 Athletes Sport Accomplishment




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20's Sports
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3 Artists Field of Art What made their artwork unique?


(One not in bold)
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20's Music
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4 Authors Titles (Leave blank)




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American Literature

• Sinclair Lewis 1st American to win Nobel Prize
  in Lit
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Theme of Youth and
  Prosperity
• Edna St. Vincent Millay 1st Woman to win
  Pulitzer Prize
• Ernest Hemingway characters that related to
  audience

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Lewis, Fitzgerald and Hemingway
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Future Problems?

• What were three potential economic problems
  developing during the 1920s?
• Pg. 426-427

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Future Problems?

• Installment Plan people buying products on
  credit
• New Machinery makes farming more efficient
  lowers price of crops
• Growth of business increases gap between workers
  and managers

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