1.   Bellwork: How did the Harlem Renaissance change America?  Notes: other changes in 1920s  Homework: Americans on the Move, 1920-1930 Agenda

2. Remember…you don’t need to write things down word for word. Pay attention to key details and use abbreviations.

3.   Postwar recession lasted 2 years as businesses adjusted to reduction in orders and increase in available labor force  Availability of new consumer goods lead the change to drive the gross national product over $70 billion in 1922, and over $100 billion by 1929  GNP is the total value of all goods and services produced  New technologies allowed businesses to lower prices and increase profits Economic Changes

4.   60% of American homes had electricity in the 1920s, opening way for increase in home products  Refrigerators, stoves, vacuum cleaners, fans and radios became increasingly popular for household use  Resulted in a transformation in daily life as people had less time on chores and more time for leisure.  Propaganda techniques from war turned into advertising techniques to sell the new products. Consumer Economy

5.   Installment buying (credit) was used by many to purchase new cars.  Resulted in increase in other industries: highways, gas stations, rest stops.  Increased profits from tourism  Growth of suburbs as people could travel farther between jobs and homes Automobile Age

6.  Changes & Developments  Charles Lindberg became the 1 st person to fly solo across the Atlantic  19 th Amendment gave women the right to vote in all states  women had more freedom and traditional values were shifting  Movies and Radio brought entertainment into everyday life

7.   Clash of cultures as social norms changed lead to temperance movement  18 th Amendment outlawed manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor in the U.S.  While prohibition succeeded in the south and midwest, in the cities it created further problems  Speakeasies opened as illegal clubs, and bootlegging illegal alcohol were lead by organized crime  Al “Scarface” Capone controlled organized crime and politics in Chicago.  Prohibition was realized as a failed experiment and repealed in 1933 with the 21 st Amendment. Prohibition

8.   Fear of communism grows—Red Scare  Racial tensions grow, and nativism revives the Ku Klux Klan  Congress passes quota laws to limit immigration  Conflict between science and religion with the Scopes Trial between creationism and evolution Time of Turmoil