1. The Roaring 20s
The Jazz Age

2. The Modern Age The decade after WWI saw the emergence of modernism
Movies, radio, sports, and cars changed society
The US economy grew to new heights in the 1920s
Family life and sexuality changed
The US isolated itself from Europe and promoted Americanism or Nativism

3. Immigration Restriction, Nativism
Immigration increased from 1920 to 1921
National Origins Act, – Reduced annual European immigration and halted Chinese immigration.

4. Sacco-Vanzetti Case Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian immigrants & anarchists convicted of robbery and murder
Fair trial?
Judge refused to give a retrial
Worldwide campaign to save Sacco and Vanzetti
Executed in 1927

5. Marcus Garvey Jamaican immigrant Pan-Africanism
Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.
Shipping company to transport back to Africa
At odds with the NAACP

6. Prohibition 18th Amendment ratified in 1919
Repealed in (21st Amendment)
Bootlegging and speakeasies
Gangsters?

7. Al Capone New Yorker, but led his gang, part of The Outfit, in Chicago
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Convicted of tax evasion in 1931

8. Harding and Coolidge Warren G. Harding, Pres. - 1921-1923
Republicans dominated the Presidency and Congress during the 20s
Ohio machine
Scandals in office, but he was never directly involved
Tea-Pot Dome Scandal
Albert Fall, Sec. of Interior
Sold lands to oil companies in CA and WY
Went to prison

9. Calvin Coolidge “Silent” Cal, Pres. From 1923-1929
Remained free of the Harding scandals
Fairly popular
Laissez-faire, industry, “isolation”
Herbert Hoover, Sec. of Commerce

10. Modern Art
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11. Jazz

12. Dress

13. Flappers, More than just the Charleston
More than just short skirts, bobbed hair, and jazz
Broke social conforms
Women riding bicycles, driving cars, smoking, drinking!
Break from the Victorian Era
Second Age Feminism
National Woman's Party (ERA)
Women Governors – Miriam Ferguson

14. Literature
The Harlem Renaissance – Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Claude McKay
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. Backlash Rise of Fundamentalism
Anti-Evolution League barred teaching evolution in 1923
Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
John T. Scopes taught evolution in a TN High School
W. J. Bryan prosecuted Scopes
Clarence Darrow (ACLU) defended scopes
Scopes lost, small fine.

16. Foreign Policy in the 20s
While the US stayed out of the League of Nations, it was not strictly isolationist,
World expansion through trade, not force
Tightening grip on Latin America
Backed Chiang Kai-shek (Kuomintang) in China
Government aid to foreign countries

17. Charles Lindbergh
May 1927, first non- stop flight from New York to Paris
Spirit of St. Louis
36 hour flight
National hero
Symbol of the 20s?