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Returning Home. WW I Veterans returned find there were no jobs. Women High taxes Transition . Taxation. Pre 7% After 73%. The Red Scare. After the war there was a strong movement toward communism Unions began going on strike Seem as a microcosm of communism. TAV Chapter 17 . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Returning Home
• WW I Veterans returned find there were no jobs.
• Women • High taxes• Transition
Taxation
• Pre 7%• After 73%
The Red Scare
• After the war there was a strong movement toward communism
• Unions began going on strike – Seem as a microcosm of communism
TAV Chapter 17
The Roaring 20’s
1920 Election
• “A return to normalcy.”• Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
• Scandals• Confronted by Harding– Charles Cramer-Veterans Bureau selling Govt.
Med. supplies – suicide– 2 months later Jess Smith-Selling Govt. favors –
suicide
Tea Pot Dome
• Interior Sec. Albert B. Fall was profiting from the lease of oil reserves in T.P.D., Wyoming & Elk Hills, CA.
• 300,000
The Automobile
• Invented in the 1890’s• By the 1920’s the automobile was seen as
affordable for everyone• It made it easier for people to get around• During the 1920’s the registration of cars
jumped from 8 million to 23 million
Henry Ford
• Began his Co. in 1903 to make cars
• 1910, 30,000 Model T’s a year– Tin Lizzies
• 1914, started using assembly lines to make the Model T– Black only
Automobiles Contd.
• By the Mid 1920’s Chevrolet started outselling Ford by offering cars in various colors
Charles Lindbergh
• From Minnesota• Stunt pilot and
delivered air mail• 1927, at age 25
Lindbergh flew non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean– New York to Paris– Paid $25,000 – Lucky Lindy
More Leisure Time
• By the mid 1920’s the average work week was around 50 hours
• Previously in 1900, the average work week was around 60 hours
Radio• In 1920, only 20,000 people had homemade
receivers. • Frank Conrad, began broadcasting music &
baseball scores from Pittsburgh. • Fall 1920, the first commercial radio station
started in Pittsburgh–KDKA 1020 AM
Radio Continued
• By 1922, over 500 radio stations were in operation.
• Networks started playing the same programs nationwide.
The Jazz Age
• After WW I ended many of the young people began going to college and looking to their friends for behavioral standards
• During the 1920’s a combination of jazz, blues, & Dixieland music caught the attention of young people
• Dance halls were packed and many dance contests took place
The Jazz Age Cont’d
• Many of the popular dances originated in the black communities– Turkey Trot– Charleston
• There was a more carefree approach to living• Other youthful pranks were flagpole sitting
and goldfish eating
Goldfish Swallowing
Flagpole Sitting
• Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelley
• First started the fad in response to a dare.
• The first time he was up 13 hours & 13 minutes.
• The record is 49 days held by Kelley.
Social Changes• Women began to wear more revealing clothes– Knees and arms were actually exposed!– Discussions of sex became more prevalent
• Women started to use make-up– Make-up had previously only been used by
actresses and prostitutes• The Flapper was the nickname given to
women who embraced the dress & behavior of the time
• More women entered the workforce – Many Contd. to work even after getting married
Managerial Revolution
• Study of how work gets done• Taylorism• White-Westinghouse Studies
Welfare Capitalism
• Benefits
Section 3
Increase in Nativism
• Fear of immigrants
Immigration
• 1921, Emergency Quota Act-Restricted immigration to 3%
• 1924, National Origins Act-restricted immigration to 2% of the 1890 census.
Sacco & Vanzetti
• April 15, 1920, 2 men robbed & killed 2 shoe store employees.
• Sacco & Vanzetti were picked up for the crime
• Gun & bullets• Professed anarchists• Executed August 23,
1927
Increase in the KKK
• Former Confederate Officers– Nathan Bedford Forrest
• Re-est. In 1915 under William J. Simmons
• Flourished during the 1920’s
• Great Migration• Immigration
The Jazz Age
• After WW I ended many of the young people began going to college and looking to their friends for behavioral standards
• During the 1920’s a combination of jazz, blues, & Dixieland music caught the attention of young people
• Dance halls were packed and many dance contests took place
Fundamentalism
• The theory of evolution was growing b/c of Darwin.
• The Fundamentalist rejected the new scientific views
• The Bible is the inspired word of God and is literally correct.
Prohibition
• Temperance Movement 1815• Jan. 20, 1919, the 18th Amendment was
ratified.• The Amendment took affect in Jan. 1920.
• Volstead Act – Treasury Dept. over enforcing prohibition
• Speakeasies