The Roaring 20

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The Roaring 20s

• An era of prosperity,
• Republican power,
• and conflict

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Age of Prosperity

• Economic expansion
• Mass Production
• Assembly Line
• Age of the Automobile
• Ailing Agriculture

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Republican Power

• President Harding
• Elected 1920
• Legacy of Scandals
• Teapot Dome
• Died in office

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President Coolidge The business of America is
business.

• Fordney-McCumber Tariff
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
• No help for farmers
• Foreign Policy

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Consumer Economy
Electric Appliances Washing machines
Refrigerators Vacuum cleaners
Automobiles Henry Ford Assembly Line
Energy Consumption Coal Oil Natural Gas
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Culture of the Roaring 20s
Radio KDKA Pittsburgh GE, Westinghouse, RCA form
NBC
Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin Talkies The Jazz
Singer Starring Al Jolson
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Celebrities
Babe Ruth Ty Cobb
Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St.Lewis
Jack Dempsey
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The 20s is The Jazz Age
The Flappers make up cigarettes short skirts
Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington
Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway
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A Society in Conflict

• Anti-immigrant
• National Origins Act
• Discrimination
• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
• Italian immigrants
• Unfair trial

• Garvey Movement
• Marcus Garvey
• Back to Africa

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The Ku Klux Klan
Great increase In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-semitic
Anti-catholic
Anti-womens suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
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Scopes Monkey Trial
Evolution vs. Creationism
Science vs. Religion
Dayton, Tennessee
Famous Lawyers
John Scopes High School Biology teacher
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Prohibition
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Gangsters
untouchables
Al Capone