1. ROOOOAAAARing 20’s

2. African Americans in the 20’s
Growth of Jazz
Famous jazz musicians:
Cotton Club:
Harlem Renaissance
Focused on:
Famous Authors:

3. Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Is wide with laughter, You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing, You do not know I die?

4. African Americans in the 20’s
The Great Migration
The Resurgence of the KKK
Emergency Quota Act of 1921

6. Economics in the 20’s
Easy Credit:
Banks:
Buying Stock on Margin:

8. Economics in the 20’s High Speculation of Stock:
Gross National Product:

9. Arts and Leisure in the 20’s
Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Music
Art Deco:
Literature:
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Ernest Hemingway
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Lost Generation:

11. Arts and Leisure in the 20’s
Sports and Entertainment
New Fads:
1922: King Tut:
Sports Stars
Babe Ruth:
Jack Dempsey:
Gertrude Ederle:

13. Red Scare in the 20’s Red Scare: Communism: Caused By:
Fear of a communist takeover, inspired by immigration and events in World War II
Communism:
Shared property, government manages the property
Caused By:
Bolshevik Revolution: Communist takeover led by Vladimir Lenin
Growth of Immigration: Eastern and Southern Europeans “new immigrants”

14. Red Scare in the 20’s Labor Unrest in America
Fear of immigrants increases fear of:
Labor Unrest in America
During WWI: loyalty during the war effort (nationalism)
However after: inflation and job competition
This leads to: strikes for worker’s rights, serious tension
America sees this as: disloyalty
Boston Police Strike; Steel Mill Strike; Coal Miners Strike (John L. Lewis)

15. Red Scare in the 20’s Examples of the Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti: Italian radicals charged with the robbery & murder of a factory paymaster
Executed with very little evidence
Palmer Raids: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s attempt to arrest & deport radicals (mainly anarchists & Communists)

16. Foreign Policy in the 20’s
Goal: Maintain the peace!!
Washington Naval Conference (1921): limit navies by establishing a ratio of battleships to be built (5:5:3) for U.S., England and France
First major disarmament treaty in history
Kellogg-Briand Pact: 28 nations sign on to outlaw offensive war (in 1928)

17. Government in the 20’s Warren G. Harding
Slogan: - “Return to normalcy”
Fordney-McCumber Tariff: 60% tax on foreign imports (helps American industry)
Dawes Plan: an attempt to reschedule the debts that Germany owed from WWI…(ultimately failed to work)
Very unpopular – Britain & France think the U.S. is a miser

18. Dawes Plan (1924)

19. Government in the 20’s Scandals under Harding
Ohio Gang: - p. 626 – the group of cabinet members that were close friends with Harding, played a lot of poker and drinking!
Teapot Dome Scandal: Scandal under Harding
Sec’y of the Interior Albert B. Fall transfers oil-rich land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming from the Dept. of the Navy to the Dept. of the Interior
Receives bribes from oil companies to privately drill the land

20. Government in the 20’s Calvin Coolidge
Slogan: - “Be Cool with Coolidge” (see p. 637)
Famous Quote: “The chief business of the American people is business…”
Lowers: taxes
Gave businesses: support (did not interfere)
Used trickle down effect
What is a “hands-off” economy known as?

21. Government in the 20’s Prohibition 18th Amendment:
Illegal Activity BOOMS
Moonshine:
Bootleggers:
Speakeasies:
Gangsters:

22. Changes for Women in the 20’s
Status:
The Flapper:
More work outside the home: