Lesson 21: The Rise of Technology in
American Life
4 Types of Jobs Created by Advertising
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Printers
Copy Writers
Graphic Artists
Designers
Unskilled workers in Paper manufacturing
How did Advertising lead people to
spend more money?
• Encouraged people to spend money on the
latest new products or fashions; it suggested
that the new product was something most
people could not do without
Define:
Sears, Roebuck and Company:
• first mail order catalog so people could order
goods and have them shipped to their homes
Types of programming found on radio were:
• concerts, sporting events, news and
information, and advertising
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1. Model T
2. Coca Cola
3. Radio
4. Empire State Building
5 Skyscraper
6. Advertisements
• All are symbols of the MODERN Age.
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Lesson 24: Effects of WW I
What was the effect of the influenza epidemic in
Philadelphia:
• 11,000 people died in October, 1918
What was its effect on the world?
• 19 million died
What happened to women workers when the
men returned from the war?
• Women were expected to give up their jobs to
men. Women resented having to do this.
What was the US unemployment rate in 1921?
• 12%
What effect did the end of WWI have on this?
• Factories lost government contracts when the
war ended and laid off workers to cut costs.
How many strikes took place during 1919?
Explain the reason workers were so unhappy.
• 3,000 strikes. Workers were supposed to work
harder without a pay raise or other benefits to
make up for the workers who were laid off.
Describe each strike
1919 Seattle General Strike:
• Over 100 Seattle workers joined a general
walkout in support of striking shipyard
workers
Boston Police Strike:
• Went on strike to protest the suspension of
officers who had joined a union. Crime rose
during the strike. Many police were replaced
by unemployed war veterans.
Pennsylvania Steelworkers Strike:
• Wanted a union, higher wages, and
shorter hours, but lost the strike
United Mineworkers Strike:
• Wanted a pay raise, 5 day work week,
and 6 hour work day. Strike was led by
John Lewis and strikers got a 14% pay
raise.
Identify:
John L. Lewis:
• led the UMW strike
Red Scare:
• 1919-1920 fear of communism
Eugene Debs:
• socialist who ran for President 5 times; thrown in
jail for breaking the Sedition Act during WWI and
got 920,000 votes for President while in jail
A. Mitchell Palmer:
• Attorney General of the US; In November, 1919,
he arrested and deported thousands of suspected
radicals, socialists and communists
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Lesson 27: Lifestyle in the Twenties and
Thirties
John Dos Passos:
• writer of the Lost Generation
Lillian Hellman:
• writer of the Lost Generation
What are the roots of jazz and what makes it
distinctive?
• Came from the African American community and
developed from ragtime, spirituals, and blues;
blended African musical techniques with
European concepts
Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden:
• co-founders of TIME magazine, the first national
weekly news magazine
Identify
Helen Willis:
• tennis star who won 19 singles titles
Bootlegging:
• sold illegal alcohol
Speakeasies:
• Hidden nightclubs where people could hear jazz
and buy alcohol
How did Prohibition lead to the increase and rise of
Organized Crime?
• Took control of the supply and distribution of
bootleg liquor
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Lesson 28: Challenging Convention
Margaret Sanger:
• advocated Birth Control
Jeanette Rankin:
• first woman to hold a seat in the US House of
Representatives
James Weldon Johnson:
• Harlem Renaissance writer
Cotton Club:
• best jazz club in NY city; was segregated with African
American performers but all audiences were white.
Religious fundamentalism:
• belief that every word in the Bible is to be taken
literally
List ways that women gained power and became
more equal during the decade.
• Began to run for office; got the right to vote;
began going to college; elected as state
Governors; were famous writers and singers
Who were the Nicholas Brothers and how did
they strike a modest blow for civil rights?
• Temporarily integrated the Cotton Club
because they were asked to come into the
audience and sit after their performance was
over
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