1920s in the U.S (The Twenties)

farmers did pretty well in the war

Manhata

  • a short, avant garde film

  • 9 min. series of vignettes and a poem

    • put in national film registry by library of congress

Repercussions after WW1

  • empires of the world had changed or disappeart

    • ottoman empire, Austrian Empire, Germany

Radicalism DUring ht war

  • also known as a witch hunt

    • looking for something that does exist

  • bombings were due to anarchisits and secret communists later in 40s and 50s

    • galianists, followers of an itailian guy

      • Andrew Palmer raids

        • went after more communists than anarchists

        • union of russian workers in 12 cities (formed in 1905)

        • masacared a bunch of people in police raids

        • a small number of these people were deported (soviet arc, dec. 1919)

        • a alottttt of people arrested in these raids

      • one of the worst ones was on walstreet

      • became the coining of the red scare

    • Andrew Palmer ran for presidency in 1920

  • april 1919 (36 bombings)

  • June 1919 (9 bombings)

  • JP Morgan Junior, oliver windor home junior, ALbert jonhson, Hansen

Conservative reaction

  • red scare over after 1920

  • intense conservatism in this time

    • many found changes made in this decade as disutbrubing

    such as:

    • darwinism

      • like a weird, mormonism-type hiearchy:

        • the great chain of being:

          • people can be like animals, down in hte dirt vs. humans being like archangels in the sky with God

        • Darwinism brought this back: compared humans to chimps

    • Mendelian genetics

isms in art world

  • objects becoming less and less distinguishable

  • people like Picasso were condemned

Thought government was becoming to be more intrusive

  • also doing things such as telling poeple how to act or what to eat, thought that was too much

immigration restrictions

immigration act of 1924

  • quoteas

Fundamentals challenged darwinism

  • tennessee hiuse of reps passed butler act of 1920

    • banned teaching of evolution

      • ACLU immediately challenged this in the press

        • defended teachers who violated the law and sep of church and state

        • Led to the monkey trial, clarence darral and brian

        • leasted a week

Prohibition

  • workplace safety and efficiency

  • anti-catholic immigrant

  • reduce DV

  • saloon culture was plaguing the nation

Ku Klux Klan

Carpet baggers

  • created in 1865

  • began to subise by 1870s

  • lost cause myth of 1860s

    • slaves were happy and south was modern day athens

    • persisted for a century after the war

  • Effective Jime Crow Laws

    • discrimination now focused on roman catholics, jews, and southern easter europeans

  • supported prohibition

  • D.C. Stevenson

    • convicted of r@pe of a 29 yr old woman

The twenties

  • america had become an urban nation

    • 49% lived in cities rather than rural areas

      • probably mostly had small towns and rural areas

Agriculture

  • overworked land led to dustbowls

  • european farming becoming popular again, gave americans competition

  • indsutry affected by the war

    • any prosperity

  • not good years for the economy

industry

  • demand for production fell, led to a recession

  • interest rates were held high (by fed)

  • GNP fell by 16%

  • unemployment was 33%

Railroad indsutry

over capitalized and undermanaged

  • fewer need for miners and coal

  • cars becoming more popular

called roaring 20s from economy picking back up

Got to Hustle

  • get things done, close deals

  • boosters

    • hustled then supported their hometown

  • neighborhoods fgre as fast as the city

  • electricity needed more from creation of dishwashers, etc.

  • assembly lines boomed

  • steel, rubber, glass (complementary industries)

  • roadside motel and diners

railroad lines around the central area

changes in entertainment and mass Media

  • fluorishing of art and litearture (Harlem Renaissance)

  • the lost generations (new writers

Republican Presidents of the time

  • Warren Harding (1920)

    • -student support

    • from Ohio

    • Alice roosevelt (teddy’s daughter criticized him)

    • good speaker and good communicator

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Herbert Hoover