chapter 25

Herbert Hoover was Secretary of State.

Melton

Sec of treasury

Harding advocated for AA rights

Aid for farmers and housing

Women’s employment

deregulation of radium

Department of public welfare’s

Shepard Townes act

  • health if mothers and children

Amnesty for espionage political prisoners

Teapot scams

President Coolidge

  • more progressive previously

  • Was hardings VP

  • Worker representation in corporate boards

  • No child labor

Dawes Act

  • America give money to Germany to give to France and England to rebuild them

  • Helped Dawes to get elected as VP

Hoobert Hoover

  • made a fortune by mining in australia?

  • very philanthropic

Phonograph

  • music recording recorded from something else

    • created by alexander Graham Bell

Radio

  • was originally for the government

  • Movies (in theatres) became more popular

    • local/regional accents become lost due to radio and movies spreading accents

    • tracking shots and different film angles became a thing

    • TVs recently invented, not as popular

      • hoover was the first president on TV

  • Movie stars became a thing

Sex Symbols of the 20s

  • it meant sex at the time

    • Theda Bara

    • Clara Bow

    • Rudolph Valentino

Consumer Society

  • Installment plans

    • buy now, pay later

      • like a credit card

    • contributed to the great depression later, although it temporarily boomed the economy

  • Marketing became huge

    • public taste, the good life, and spending

    • Public Relations

      • created new social Problems

        • bad breath, body odor, foot odor

        • White collar status jobs

          • buy the clothes, symbolized something

    • overweight and pale skin no longer seen as utmost sign of health and prosperity

      • people ate less greasy foods and more veggies

        • slim figures much more desirable

        • cigarettes basically used for dieting

        • female smoking heavily encouraged in the media

    • Chain stores (consistent across the nation)

      • A&P

      • Coca Cola

      • 5&10 (Woolworth)

Social LIfe

  • 19th amendment passed

    • only 20% of women voted in first election

  • fabric needed much less to make women’s clothes

    • flapper was the new style, took 7 yards vs. 19 yards for victorian dresses

sports