The Jazz Age Time of Turmoil

 Marcus Garvey  Began to lead African Americans in search of equal rights

 Treaty that was to end WWI  Was never ratified

 An economic system based on private property and free enterprise

 People who believe there should be no government

 The period where the government went after the communists

 The attorney general who wanted all communist arrested

 To send someone back to their home country

 Two Italian immigrants that were sentenced to death for robbery  They didn’t get a fair trial

 Massachusetts Governor

 Started the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters  African American Union of railroad workers

 Founded by Marcus Garvey  Promoted racial unity and pride

 Warren G. Harding

 First election what women were allowed to vote in

 Were democratic nominees for president in 1920  They lost

 Became Secretary of Commerce

 Was a symbol of corruption

 Coolidge becomes President  Nicknamed “Silent Cal”

 Coolidge wins with a landslide victory  He got 54% of the vote

 Refusal to join the League of Nations

 Limited the size of the Navies  Agreed by  The U.S., Japan, Britain, France, and Italy

 Outlawed war  Couldn’t enforce it

 A Booming Economy

 An economic downturn  What we have right now

 The total value of all goods and services that are being produced  Electricity allowed us to produce more stuff

 Hiring experts to figure ways to increase production

 The amount of work that each worker can do

 Created by Henry Ford  Made production quicker and easier

 When workers buy stock in the company they work for

 Moms buying Washers and Dryers  Dad’s buying cars  Parents having Kids  These all take money

 Putting things on Lay- A-Way  Buy Now- Pay Later

 Auto Capital of the World

 Invented the Assembly Line  And the Model-T

MODEL T-SOLD FOR THE MODEL A – CAME IN DIFFERENT COLORS

 Americans demanded better roads  Which industries grew?  Steel, Rubber, Glass, and Oil

 Cotton and Grain prices feel  Farmers lost their farms  Textile factories shut down  What is cause and effect?

 The Roaring Twenties  Flappers,Gangsters and Moonshiners  Big Band Music

 First man to fly alone across the Atlantic  He flew from New York to Paris

 Women's suffrage  The right to vote

 Liberated women  Short bobbed hair  Short dresses  Heavy makeup

 Mass Media  Communication that reaches the masses

 Led the U.S. as the fastest growing industry

 At first movies were black and white  The first movie with sound was called a Talkie  Discuss the picture

 Radios were more affordable  More homes had radios than T.V.s  Grand Ole Opry was one of the first shows  Ryman Auditorium

 Baseball  Babe Ruth  home run record

 Red Grange scored 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes

 1 st woman to swim the English Channel

 Margret Gorman

 The 1920’s  Louis Armstrong

 Created African American pride in their culture  Langston Hughes

 Writers who questioned American values

 Wrote The Great Gatsby

 18 th Amendment- outlawed Liquor sales and production  The Volstead Act  Promoted mostly by Christian Women

 Making illegal liquor

 The Original Scarface  Ran the Chicago Mob

 Recalled Prohibition

 The belief that native born Americans are better than others

 The KKK  Founded in the 1860’s in the south  Originally opposed any one who wasn’t a white American

 Limited the number of immigrants from each country

 No Promises in the Wind  Evolution – the scientific theory that humans evolved over time  Introduced new Ideas  Charles Darwin

 American Civil Liberties Union

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANCLARENCE DARROW

HERBERT HOOVERALFRED E. SMITH

Ready for the Great Depression