Term Five - Chap 25

Term Five  

Chap 25 

Roaring 20s 

R 

Roaring – roads and ruth  

Radio - renaissance 

Rebellious youth  

Rural v Urban – ritz  

Religion v science  

Return t normalcy – Republicans – only republicans president during the time  

Raids – prohibition acts  

Racism – kkk march at capital  

Red Scare – scare of foreigners  

Beginning of a modern era  

Middle class speculates (gambling) with idle money 

*Wages went up by wages were lower than Inflation   

Celebrities  

Sex  

Automobile industry  

• Auto makers stimulate sales through model changes and adverting  

• Auto industry fosters other businesses  

• Ford gets a head start  

• Traffic rules  

• Cars are a sign of status  

Calvin Coolidge  

• “ The business of America is business” 

• Cool to be in business  

Advertising  

• Got more sophisticated  

• Billboards  

• Radios  

Farmers  

• Declin in exports prices  

• Growing disparity between income of laborers, middle-class managers  

Urban life  

• Rapid increase in urban population  

• Skyscrapers symbolize the new mass culture  

• Communities of home, church, and school are absent in the cities  

• Small town culture is not in the city  

• Lots of things to do  

• Drinking  

• Gambling  

• Strip clubs 

Flapper  

• Women don't ask society for permission  

• Likes dating and talking about sex  

• Don't play by the old rules  

• Shows more skin  

• Just have fun  

• Swimsuits change “too reveling”  

Louise Brooks  

• In risky movies  

• Page boy bob cuts  

Youth/lost generation  

• Walking on the edge of skyscrapers 

• Lots of slang  

• Dances  

• Charleston  

• Tango  

• Innuendos  

Cotton club 

• Harlem renaissance  

• Night club 

• Mainly black musicians and entertainers 

• Mainly white audience  

Radio 

• First radio station was KDKA 

• Could buy radios anywhere  

• Super popular  

• WCCO 

• Fist commercial with a musical tune – Wheaties cereal  

• Sports, drama,news,music  

New inventions 

• Telephone  

• Vacuums  

• Radios  

• Electrical appliances  

• Movie industry  

• The jazz singer  

• First movie to have sounds from the actors  

• Lindbergh  

• From Little falls  

• First to fly solo across the Atlantic  

Prohibition  

• People disrespect the law  

• Bootlegging becomes big business 

•  Prohibition resented in urban areas  

• 18^th amendment repealed  

• Raids – normally for show  

Chicago gang fight  

• St valentines day massacre 

• One of the worst public violence 

• AL Capone  

Minnesota  

• Minnesota 13  

• Al Capone bought from Minnesota  

Sports Mania  

Babe Ruth  

• Hit homeruns  

• Dominant team of the tine  

• 60 home runs  

• Americas favorite pass time  

• Boxing  

• Football  

• Sports became entertainment outlet  

Reaction to change  

What changed  

• Technology  

• Urban  

• Women – high divorce rates 

• Youth  

• African American  

• Crime  

• Bootleggers 

• Pop culture  

• Music  

Who was upset? 

• Older generation  

• Rural 

• Religious  

• Social critics  

Leopold & Loeb 

• Killed for the thrill of it  

• Used as “evidence” that change was bad  

Prohibition 

• Corruption  

• Crime-violence  

• Mafia-Italian, Irish, Jewish gangsters  

• Anti- foreign attitude  

• Anti- catholic  

Sacco and Vanzetti  

• Were Italian immigrants accused and charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory  

• Were anarchist and pro-union 

Immigration Restriction  

• Banned Asian immigrants  

• Still allowed Mexico and Canadas  

Scopes trial  

• Made it a crime to teach evolution  

• Challenged teaching evolution in schools  

• Became a national event out of Dayton Tennessee  

Rosewood 

• Massacre was an attack on the predominantly African Americas town by white aggressors  

KKK 

• Hits 5 million  

• Attack on urban culture and rural values  

• Was anti  

• Black  

• Catholic  

• Jews  

• Immigrants  

• Science  

• Urban  

• Alcohol  

• Seeks to win US persuasion  

• Paraded publicly  

The lost Generation 

• Sinclair Lewis  

• Wrote Babbitt and main street  

• From Sauk Centre  

• F. Scott Fitzgerlad  

• Wrote the great Gatsby  

• Gatsby falls in love with a higher-class southern woman so he becomes rich and tries to lure her  

1. Anti – urban  

1. Vice  

2. Mafia  

2. Anti-Immigrant  

1. Sacco and Vanzetti 

2. Quotas/restrictions  

3. Anti-science 

1. Scopes trial  

4. Anti-African American 

1. Rosewood  

2. Lynching  

3. KKK 

5. Anti-culture 

1. Last generation  

2. Fitzgerald – great Gatsby  

3. Lewis – main street and babbitt 

Republicans rule  

• Won three elections in a row  

Republican platform  

-  support big industry  

- lower taxes and raise in tariffs 

 - isolationism anti- foreign  

- traditional values  

1. Harding 

1. Return to normalcy 

2. Teapot dome scandal  

2. Coolidge  

1. Tax cuts  

2. Keeping cool with Coolidge  

3. The B12 of AM is Biz 

3. Hoover  

1. “Chicken in every pot... car in every garage” 

Harding  

• Republicans lacked party leader  

• Roosevelt's death in 1919 

• Restoration idea 

• Died in office  

• ... 

• Let his cabinet members to anything  

• Teapot dome scandal  

• Worst case of corruption  

• Ohio gang – Harding's poker paying friends who used their offices fo graft  

• The government set aside oil-rich land in WY 

• Secretary of interior albert fall secretly leases the land to two oil companies  

• Fall received 400,000 from the oil companies and a felony conviction from the courts  

Coolidge 

• Didn't do anything  

• “ I want America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves” 

• “The business of America is business” - Calvin Coolidge 

• Saturated market  

• Inflation  

• High inventories  

• Keep cool with Coolidge – campaign slogan  

Herbery Hoover  

• “A chicken in every pot and car in every garage” 

• Self-made man  

• Stock market crashed  

• 1929 The Great Crash  

Al Smith  

• Irish – American catholic  

• Governor of NY  

• Wanted to get rid of prohibition  

• Supported labor unions  and advocated for workers' rights, believing that fair labor practices were essential for economic growth and social justice.