Lecture: The Roaring Twenties (What was the uproar all about?)
Economic upROAR: Urban Industrial Production Effects of WWI Technological Advancements Business & manufacturing output Per Capita Income Union movement weakened Mass Consumerism –Advertising –Credit Farmers left out…
Cultural upROAR- Dry v. Wet th Amendment, 1919 –Volstead Act 2. Drinking ? Law violations Easy to get –3. Speakeasies Rise of Organized Crime Progressives give up –4. 21 st Amendment, 1933 Prohibition officers destroying barrels with alcohol
Cultural upROAR- Fear of Differences Red Scare –5. Palmer Raids, 1919 –6. Sacco & Vanzetti Trial, 1921 Immigration –Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 –Immigration act of 1924, National Origins Act KKK –7. Fear of Blacks, Catholics, Jews and foreigners
Cultural upROAR- America Divided Religion –Scopes “Monkey” Trial –8. What to teach in schools? –Urban v. Rural –9. Election of 1928 Moral Issues in Conflict –The New Woman –10. Sexual mores –11 & 12. Women’s Suffrage Race Relations –13. Great Migration –14 & 15. Attacks on blacks Lawyers Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan during the trial
Reflection Questions 1. In your opinion, what was the biggest ROAR of the 1920s? 2. Why did Prohibition fail? Do you think a similar law could be passed today? 3. List two things that you learned that were interesting &/or that you will remember easily a month from now.