The Roaring Twenties Jessica Rosario

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

· The efficiency of the assembly line helped to decrease car prices. Ex.) Model-T 1909 - $850 1916 - $360 1924 - $290

* 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

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

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 1920. 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.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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