The New Era: The Roaring 20’s

Economic BoomNew or Improved Technologies

Auto industry

Frederick Taylor

Ford and GM

Economic Boom

The invention of the

Radio

Mass production

Buying on time

Economic boom

Commercial Aviation

Wright Brothers

Charles Lindbergh

Economic boom

Early computers

Genetic research

Gregor Mendel

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Plight of the Workers

Henry Ford“welfare capitalism”

Unionization in the 1920’sThe “American Plan”

Working women and minorities“pink-collar” jobs

minorities and unions Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood of

Sleeping Car Porters

Plight of the Workers (con’t)

Farmers

Increased technology

Supply & demand

McNary-Haugan Bill

New Consumerism

Mass productionAdvertising

Bruce BartonMass communication

Mass circulation magazinesMovies

“Talkies” are introducedThe Jazz Singer

Radio broadcasting

Radio

KDKA

National Broadcasting Co.

The New Professional Woman

John B. WatsonMargaret SangerNational women’s party

Alice PaulERASheppard-Towner Act

Arts and Literature“Debunkers”

H.L. Mercken

Sinclair Lewis

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Earnest Hemingway

Harlem Renaissance

Tin Pan Alley

Langston Hughes

“Duke” Ellington

Billie Holiday

Bessie Smith

Irving Berlin

The Jazz Age

Flappers

Harlem Renaissance

Literary movement– “problem of being black in a white culture”

Social movement– Marcus Garvey

United Negro Improvement Association– Back to Africa movement– Mail fraud—deportment

Traditional values vs. Modern culture

Prohibition

Ushering in the Gangster Era

Johnny Torrio

Al Capone “Public Enemy #1”

“Big Bill Thompson”

"We'll not only reopen places these people have closed, but we'll open 10,000 new ones (speakeasies). 1927 in Chicago

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)

Nativism

New immigration restrictions

Quota system

The National Origins Act of 1924

Nativism

Rebirth of the KKK

Leo Frank

D.W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation

Religious Modernists vs. Fundamentalists

Creation vs. Evolution

Scopes “Monkey” Trial

The Great “Bull” MarketWild speculation in the Stock market– Buying stocks “on-margin”– Wildcats schemes

Selling under-water lots in Florida devastated by hurricanes and advertised as “soothing tropical winds”

Secretary of the Treasury-Mellon– Reduced the national debt by $10 million– “Spare the rich” policies

High taxes discouraged businessEliminating the excess-profits taxes, gift taxes, and income taxes for the rich

Democratic Party

Al Smith

William McAdoo

John Davis

Presidency in the New Era

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)Ohio GangScandal in the White House

Teapot Dome & Elk HillsCalvin Coolidge

(1923-1929)World War I debt

Herbert Hoover