1. An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict
The Roaring 20s
An era of prosperity,
Republican power,
and conflict

2. "Roaring 20s", or the "Jazz Age"
A period of great change in American Society - modern America is born at this time
First time the census reflected an urban society - people had moved into cities

3. Age of Prosperity Mass consumption Mass Production
Age of the Automobile/Assembly Line
Booming stock market
Installment Buying (credit) & Debt

4. Great Migration: Blacks moved north for jobs in wartime industry
Harlem Renaissance: distinct Black culture flourished
Pride in African American heritage
Langston Hughes: Wrote about lives of African Americans

5. believed in Black pride Started Back to Africa movement
Marcus Garvey
believed in Black pride
Started Back to Africa movement
Black Nationalism:
Education would help advancement
Pride in African American Culture and Traditions

6. President Coolidge “The business of America is business.”
No help for farmers
Government should stay out of business

7. Consumer Economy: helped create wealth

8. Mass media
Radio, movies, newspapers, magazines aimed at a broad audience
-provided entertainment
-helped unify the nation by spreading ideas
-it weakened the impact of local influence
-increased consumer spending

9. Automobile Culture Henry Ford: How auto changed lives:
Paid workers well
Mastered assembly line
Made automobile more affordable
Mass produced Model T
How auto changed lives:
Rural areas less isolated
People could live further from work
Made public transport less popular
Gave young people more freedom

10. Celebrities Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis
1st solo flight across the Atlantic

11. The 20s is The Jazz Age Writers Musicians
Lost Generation: Writers who wrote about flawed heroes and the effects of WW I
Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Musicians
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington

12. 1920s also brought about great changes for women...
th Amendment gave them the vote
more women worked outside the home
more women went to college
FLAPPER/ "new woman"

13. A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Emergency Quota Act: restricted immigration
Passed because fear of immigrants
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Italian immigrants
Unfair trial - Executed
Fear of immigrants

14. Immigrants – the point of origin had shifted to S & E Europe and new religions appeared: Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic
N. European immigrants this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values
fear was known as NATIVISM

15. The Ku Klux Klan In power Great increase Anti-black Anti-immigrant
Anti-Semitic
Anti-Catholic
Anti-women’s suffrage
Anti-bootleggers

16. Feared loss of traditional culture
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Evolution vs. Creationism
Science vs. Religion
Famous Lawyers
Dayton, Tennessee
Feared loss of traditional culture

17. Prohibition Gangsters 18th Amendment Bootleggers Made alcohol illegal
Al Capone