1. The Roaring 20s

2. News Women Gain Rights, Fashion, and Flappers
Prohibition Goes into Effect
Benito Mussolini New Prime Minister of Italy
Mohandas Gandhi Sent to Jail
Hitler and His Beer Hall Putsch
Lucky Lindy and the Spirit of St. Louis
Sacco and Vanzetti Go to Court
Scopes Monkey Trial

3. 1920: 19th Amendment Passed
Suffrage granted to women…Britain follows in 1923
Matrimonial Clauses Act…Men and Women Equal in Divorce
Women Adopt New Image
Short Hair and Skirts
Archbishop of Naples (Italy) Blames Earthquake on It
Cars Get Electrical Starters…Who Needs a Man Now?
Women Smoke in Public and Wear Cosmetics
Colleges and High Schools Open to Both Genders

4. National News, Vol. 1 Women Gain Rights, Fashion, and Flappers
Picketing outside of the White House, suffragettes like Alice Paul were arrested and force-fed when they went on a hunger strike.
But after the passage of the 19th Amendment, they had their political beaus.

5. Fashion Fads

6. Betty Boop Take a Hike

7. What Was Womanhood?

8. Were They a Reflection of the Age?
Homes Change with Technology
Entertainment Goes “Wild”
Politics Evolve
It’s the Economy, Stupid

9. Home of the 20s

10. Leisure Time and Entertainment

11. Art Changed

12. Literature of a Lost Generation

13. Arts Roundup Walt Disney presents Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie
Earnest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
T.S. Elliot writes free-verse poem, The Waste Land
George Gershwin produces Rhapsody in Blue
Charlie Chaplin stars in The Kid
John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford to star in flicks. Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde released. The Jazz Singer, first talkie hits the screen.
Europeans Stravinsky, Ravel, Shaw, Huxley, and Joyce redefine music and literature
Oh, yeah. In Harlem, NYC, there was a renaissance among the negro folks

14. The Harlem Renaissance
MUSIC
ART
LITERATURE
THEATRE
RELIGION
POLITICS
DANCE

15. Politics Gets Nastier

16. Presidents Are Anti-Heroes
Warren G Harding
Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge
Herbert Hoover

17. Tea Pot Dome Scandal

18. Second Wave of the KKK

20. The
Response

21. Nativists Oppose Smith in 1924

22. KKK Anti-Immigration Poster

23. Immigrants Take a Beating

26. Red Scare Anti-Immigrant Anti-Socialist Anti-Communist Anti-Catholic
Anti-Semitic
Anti-Anarchist
Anti-Labor
Anti-Urban

27. Response to WASPs—a fading majority

28. An Appeal to Fear

29. Pseudo-Nationalistic Themes

30. American Protection Association
Noble men are in our ranks— We are not a band of cranks— We are not a lot of bigots or of fools. But, ye Roman Catholic hordes, We will buckle on our swords, If you dare to meddle with our public schools. Dare to be an A.P.A. Dare to stand alone. Dare to work for freedom’s cause. Dare to make it known.
Come ye sons of Uncle Sam, Come join the gallant band. Come unite with us to fight our country’s foe. For our God is with the right. We will conquer by His might, And Slick and wily Jesuit must go.

31. Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
A. Palmer Mitchell, US Attorney-General prosecutes suspected anti-Americans
Loyalty questioned of any and all Southern and Eastern European immigrants
Stem from Russian Revolution by Bolsheviks (Communists)
US troops tried to restore Romanov family after WWI

32. Economy: From Boom to Bust

33. COSTS OF THE 20s WAGES (Annual) HOUSING/ FOOD TRANSPORTA-TION COTHING
MISC.
Laborer
$1306
Motel Room
$5 per person
New Small Car
$1000
Man’s Coat
$14
Baseball Bat
$1.50
Clerk
$1647
Deluxe Room
$10 pp and up
Small Truck
$1400
Quality Dress
$15
Pencil
$ .01
Foreman
$2254
Deluxe Dinner
Gasoline
$ .20 per gallon
Man’s Shirt $1
Hardcover Book
Carpenter
$1808
Good Lunch
$ .75
Deluxe Car
$7000
Ladies Work Dress $5
3-cell Flashlight $2
Conductor
$2971
Loaf of Bread
$ .25
Used Car
$250
Winter Boots $6
Excellent cigar
$ .20
General
$6347
Quart of Milk
$ .15
Local Bus
$ .05
Casual Sports Jacket
$12
Mule
$100

34. Era of Conspicuous Consumption

35. Prosperity Turned Sour
America fed the world during the Great War
After the War soldiers returned to the fields
American goods were less needed
Prices decreased
Farmers earned less, but had the same expenses
Farmed harder, bought less finished products
Factories laid off workers or closed
City workers has less to spend and repay credit
More closures of factories, banks, and stores

36. Stock Market Crash—October 29, 1929

37. The Government is Laissez Faire

38. Then Mother Nature Attacks
The Dust Bowl

39. Ordinary Folks Are Hit Hard

40. And Still No Government Help to the People

41. Prohibition Goes Into Effect
The “Noble Experiment”
Passage of the 18th Amendment (1919)
Cure for All Evils of Society
Crooked Politicians
Child and Wife Abuse
Failure of Immigrants to Assimilate
Experiment Failure
Organized Crime
Speakeasies
Moonshiners

42. Motivation: Chicago

43. Both Sides of the Question
Can we legislate morality?
Is alcohol a cause or effect of societal problems?
How can we predict consequence of rules?

44. A Long History of Temperance: Carrie Nation
Issue of alcohol, drugs, tobacco and gun control is common in reform movements from the Great Awakenings to the present.
Usually taken up by WASP women and Fundamentalist groups in the Northeast and the Southern Bible Belt

45. For Every Action, There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
NYC has 32,000 Speakeasies operating during Prohibition
$60,000,000 made in 1927 by Al Capone from bootlegging
Smuggling operations brings in booze from Canada, Mexico, and the West Indies
Homemade “hooch” from wood alcohol leads to blindness, paralysis, and death

46. Criminal Activity and Defense
Northside Raid
Federal Bureau of Investigation Founded

47. Capone’s Little Italy

48. On the International Scene

49. Benito Mussolini in Italy
Journalist, teacher, and father of five becomes Europe’s first Fascist dictator—Il Duce
King Victor Emmanuel names Black Shirt leader Prime Minister after March on Rome in 1922
Brits and Frogs see peace ahead
Italian children recruited for Il Duce

50. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Jailed
Gandhi, aka Mahatma “Great Soul”, imprisoned for resisting Brit control of India
Pacifist uses non-violence and civil disobedience as protests
India Act of 1919 not fast enough for former London law student and South African attorney

51. Adolph Hitler: Beer Hall Putsch
Angry Austrian corporal takes over National German Socialist Workingman’s Party
Attempted coup in Bavaria results in arrest of Party’s Fuhrer
Speech vows for revenge after Treaty of Versailles leaves Germans in financial woes
Writes Mein Kampf in jail

52. International Dateline
Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov Lenin, USSR chief, dies under mysterious circumstance
Joseph Stalin becomes Soviet dictator
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor born—baby girl to become future Brit queen
Dancer Isadora Duncan suffocated in car accident
Egypt granted independence from Brits
Lebanon now a republic with dual Moslem/Christian leaders
Sun Yat-sen takes over China from Manchu empire
Immigrants Houdini and Valentino die in unrelated cases of peritonitis

53. Lucky Lindy Hops the Big Pond Solo

54. 25 Year-Old Airmail Pilot Reaches France
05/20/1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh touches down near Paris & meets 100,000 fans
2 French pilots die in earlier attempts
June 1928: Amelia Earhart first to repeat feat

55. Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis
Celebrity leads to a fallen hero and the loss of his child

56. Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped
Child taken from home
Parents out, babysitter suspected, but cleared
Ransom paid, child found dead
Bruno Hauptmann accused, found guilty, and executed
Kidnapping becomes a federal capital offense

57. On the Legal Front…

58. Sacco and Vanzetti Combine a false charge and false witnesses
Add Red Scare and Crime for motivation/ impetus
Toss in poverty
Heat with fear of change
Serve on suspicion for anything foreign
Isolate as a preservative

60. The Radical Press Has Its Martyrs

61. They were convicted and executed.
Their charge was murder of a security guard during an attempted robbery
Witnesses placed them elsewhere, but their testimony was discredited because of the politics of one of the witnesses.
They were convicted and executed.

62. Monkey Trial in Tennessee

63. Substitute Bio Teacher Defies Law
John Scopes, a PE teacher, treats Darwin’s theory as fact
Law demands teacher is incarcerated
Fundamentalists and town boosters want a long, hot summer
ACLU plot?

64. Physical Evidence Presented
1920s Revision
19th Century Version

65.  Darrow v The Great Commoner 

66. Trial Makes a Mockery of Monkeys

68. News Briefs Diabetes beaten 1921—Charles Best discovers insulin
Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
Immunization against TB
Vitamin E found by Evans and Bishop
Vitamin C isolated by Szent-Gyorgyl
Tutankhamen’s Tomb discovered in Egypt by Charles Carter and George Herbert
Henry Ford’s plant rolls Model T out of Detroit
BBC created after 1920 radio broadcasts heard
Clarence Birdseye finds method to freeze food in the Antarctic
John Baird introduces his TV; Charles Jenkins broadcasts in 1927
Alexander Fleming uses mold for penicillin and antibiotics
First motel opens in CA
Kodak introduces color 16mm film
Babe Ruth hits 60 HR

69. Age of Normalcy End in Sight!

70. Cause and Effect Victorian, middle-class WASP and rural majority
Before the 1920s
By the end of the 1920s
Victorian, middle-class WASP and rural majority
Industrialization was regulated and the primary source of US income
World War I left the nation wanting peace and isolationism from foreign entanglements
Good and bad were absolutes
Hard Times hit every household
Role of family and women were changed forever
Education was available and expected
Cities were increasingly more powerful and exotic
European fascism was on the rise

71. Legacy of the 20s Questioning of gender, generation, and genetics
Technology and economics as motivation
Debate on the role of government
Change from rural to urban as the American way of life
Morality is not absolute
Hero has many meanings