The Jazz Age
What was the impact of the war upon the
goals of progressivism? Did the nation
advance in a new direction? Explain
The Roaring Twenties
• Sometimes the decade
known as the Jazz Age
an uniquely American
musical genre
• The economy boomed
for six years and then
busted.
• It was the returning
dominancy of
Corporate U.S.A.
• Trickle down, bullish
markets, mergers,
rising affluent class
• Maldistribution of
wealth, farm
depression, surpluses
The 1920 Election
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Return to Normalcy amid disillusion
Progressivism repudiated
Era of Prohibition
Democrats in retreat
GOP Dominancy
Liberating Capitalism
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Revamping the Tariff
Reducing Taxes
Deregulation
Wall Street and Easy Money
Corporate Mergers and pyramiding
Land Boom: Florida and California
Production Revolution: Auto & Appliances
A Roar or A Whelp
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Maldistribution of income
Depressed commodity prices
Surplus production
Margin purchases
Weak economic sectors
Farm depression
Decline of Labor
Scandalous Behavior
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The Ohio Gang
Elk Hills and Teapot Dome
Veterans Bureau
Deregulation
The American People
Popular Culture
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Credit and Consumerism
Role of Advertisements
Age of the Auto and its impact
Making Movies
Search for Heroes
Scope Trial: Creationism in retreat?
Prohibition
Women
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19th Amendment
Suffrage and ERA
Impact of WWI
The Flappers
In the Age of Play
The Harlem Renaissance
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Struggle for Equality
The Great Migration
War’s Experience
Marcus Garvey: UNIA
The New Negro
NAACP
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Jazz & New Orleans
Literature
Theater
The Cotton Club
Black Voices
Emerging Militancy
Plight of the Common Man
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Babbit and Main Street
Woes of Labor
Anti War Sentiment
The Lost Generation
Urbanization
The Farmer
Elections of 24 and 28
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Death of Harding
Silent Cal: Business of USA
Booming through 27
Hoover placing a chix in every pot
The Warning Signs
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Easy Money
Oligopolies
Deregulation
Uneven economic growth
Optimism and the Markets
Laisses Faire
Declining Incomes and maldistribution $$$
The Crash
• Black Thursday, October 24, 1929 and the
panic spreads
• October 29, 1929 collapse
• Hoover’s Response: Hesitancy in cycle?
• Falling GNP, Investments and purchases
• Stockpiles of production
• Wall street and banks