1. The Roaring Twenties
Jessica Rosario

2. A Booming Economy: The 1920’s
Income increases
People purchase more goods
“Boom Cycle”
Companies expand and hire more people
Companies earn higher profits

4. · The efficiency of the assembly line helped to decrease car prices.
Ex.) Model-T $ $ $290

5. * Employment and the standard of living increased.
* As World War I ended, technology focused on consumer goods. Ex) radios, washing machines, telephones, and cars
* An increase in wages caused an increase in buying power.
1925 RCA Radiola Super VIII

6. Postwar Developments At Home
The years after the “War to End ALL Wars” are characterized by:
social unrest and violence
economic problems
labor unrest
fear of immigrants
fear of communism
racial tensions.
rising middle class
more leisure time
autos and assembly lines
Prohibition and gangsters
conflict between a “loose society “ and the “moral society”
The Roaring Twenties

7. FAILURES In 1919 - more than 3,600 strikes
A general strike in Seattle, Washington, nearly paralyzed the city, and U.S. Marines were sent in to restore order. The strike failed.
The greatest single labor action, also ended in failure, was the Great Steel Strike in January It involved 350,000 steelworkers in several Midwestern states.
Strikers were called radicals and violent, and the business leaders, political leaders and newspapers turned against the workers, leading to the decline in the union movement.
FAILURES
Steel mill owners,
political leaders,
and newspapers
accused the strikers
of being linked with
radicals and turned
against the workers.

8. The Palmer Raids and other Anti-Communist Measures
Hysteria grows when a series of bombings occurred in the spring of 1919.
The Post Office intercepted several packages addressed to leading politicians and businessmen, that were set to explode when opened.
One bomb exploded outside the home of the attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer.
Palmer sets up an anti-radical division of the Justice Department, appoints J. Edgar Hoover to direct what becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

9. Ku Klux Klan
1920 The Klan hires 2 sales agents to help expand their power base beyond the south.
They directed their hatred against anyone who was not white and Protestant.
They now targeted Catholics, Jews, Asians, and immigrants as well as African Americans.
1925 The Klan had as many as 5 million members. They elect five senators and four state governors -in northern not just southern states.
1925 a Klan leader was convicted of murder and membership began to drop as the increasing violence weakened the Klan’s appeal.

10. President William H. Taft
The oil reserves of Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California shall be for US Naval use only.
Elk Hills,
California
1912
U.S. NAVY
O I L
Teapot Dome,
Wyoming
Property of
U.S. NAVY
1912
President William H. Taft

11. Objective: To examine the Teapot Dome Scandal and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Do Now: What was the Ohio Gang, and what problems did Charles Forbes cause for President Harding?
The “Ohio Gang” were President Harding’s friends, whom he appointed to his Cabinet.
Charles Forbes, appointed by Harding as the head of the Veteran’s Bureau, stole millions of dollars from the bureau.
“I can take care of my enemies all right, but my friends keep me walking the floors at night.”
- President Warren Harding

12. The Teapot Dome Scandal
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center on the Teapot Dome Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3 near Midwest, Wyoming.
In the early part of the 20th century large oil reserves
were discovered in Elk Hills, California and Teapot
Dome, Wyoming.

13. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall
In March of 1921, President Warren Harding appointed Albert Fall as Secretary of the Interior.
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall
Pres. Warren Harding

14. Objective: To examine the Scopes Trial, the election of 1928, and the intolerance of the 1920’s.

15. The Scopes Trial
· John Scopes, a Tennessee teacher, taught his students about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in violation of state law.
John Scopes

16. Lucky Lindy
· In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis on a solo flight across the Atlantic from Long Island (Roosevelt Field) to France.

17. 1925 Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, D.C.