the roaring 20’s in what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and...

The Roaring 20’sIn what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920’s as the “Roaring Twenties?”

Election of Warren G Harding and a “Return to Normalcy”Sec of State – Charles Evans HughesSec of Commerce – HooverSec of Treasury – Andrew MellonChief Justice – Taft

Harding dies September 2, 1923 – VP Calvin Coolidge

Isolationism, Red Scare & KKKRed Scare & Labor Unrest – Palmer

Raids (1919 Boston Police Strike & 1920 Great Steel Strike 350,000 workers)Sacco & Vanzetti – 1921 – 1927 (exonerated by M. Dukakis)KKK – Knights of the Invisible EmpireIsolationism & Nativism

Emergency Quota Act of 1921Immigration Act of 1924

Attorney General Palmer associated labor unions with Communism – started the FBI and deported 294 “Communists”

8 bombs in 8 cities in one minute = bombed Palmer’s home (3-1920)

Nativism & ImmigrationEmergency Quota Act of 1921 – set limit @ 3% of immigration population from each country from 1910 census (10,000 Greeks X .03 = 300)

Immigration Act of 1924 – set limit @ 2% of immigrant population from each country from 1890 census (2000 Greeks X .02 = 40) Japanese completed excluded

*Purpose – to slow down flood of S&E Europeans(lifted in 1965)

Prohibition and the Law that wasn’t…18th Amendment – 1919, (repealed 1935 by 21st – Wickersham Report proved law was unenforceable)

Enforced by the Volstead ActSpeakeasiesBootleggersAl Capone & racketeers

The Scopes Monkey Trial1925 – ACLU asked Scopes to teach Evolution in TN (against the law), hoping he would be jailed. Wanted to test the constitutionality of the law.Prosecution – Wm. Jennings Bryan (won, but died 5 days later due to stroke)Defense – Clarence DarrowFound Guilty and fined $100.00

Religious Conflict – Fundamentalists Vs. Modernists

Buying on Credit! & Entertainment•Bruce Barton – Greatest adman of all time…..•Sex sells everything•Sports Heroes

Babe Ruth

Jack Dempsey

Gertrude Ederle

Jim Thorpe

Bobby JonesAdvertising becomes a $350 billion industry

Henry Ford and his “Tin Lizzy”$260 = 1-2 months salary for average worker1930 = 20 million cars – 1 per family (662,000 miles of highway)

Negative Effects of cars – time spent at home decreased, people emigrated from less desirable states, deaths, crime, pollution

1 car every 93 minutes (12 weeks before)Ford made $25,000 a day ($312,000 for today)

Into the Wild blue yonder…..Wright Brother – Kitty Hawk – 12/17/1903 (12 seconds, 120 feet)Airmail – 1920 (1st transcontinental)Charles Lindbergh – 1927 (NY to Paris)Pan – Am Airlines

Marconi and the Radio1920 KDKA – Pittsburgh, by 1930 800 Stations – NBC,

CBSAmos N Andy

Clara Bow – Hollywood’s “It” Girl!

The NickelodeonsThe Great Train Robbery (1903)The Birth of A Nation (1915)Jazz Singer (1927)By 1929 – 80 million tickets a week

The Cultural RevolutionFlappersJazzHarlem Renaissance

Let America be America again.Let it be the dream it used to be.Let it be the pioneer on the plainSeeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--Let it be that great strong land of loveWhere never kings connive nor tyrants schemeThat any man be crushed by one above.

“The Lost Generation”

1920’s Prosperity & The Stock MarketBuying on MarginReal Estate Speculation – 1925National Debt = $23 billion by 1921

Businesses accept government regulation, gov’t is pro-businessTax Reform (Andrew Mellon)

Reduced from 1921-26Excise taxes, estate taxes, income taxes.

Put burden on Middle Class!