Chapters Thirty-two – Thirty-Three
American Life in the Roaring
Twenties, 1919-1929
The Politics of Boom
and Bust,
1920-1932
American Pageant
Kennedy, Cohen, Bailey
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Election of 1920
Republicans:
Leonard Wood, Hiram W.
Johnson, Warren G. Harding
Candidates:
Warren G. Harding – Pres.
Calvin Coolidge – V.P.
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Election of 1920
Republican Candidates:
Warren G. Harding – Pres.
Calvin Coolidge – V.P.
Harding
Coolidge
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Election of 1920
Democrats:
William McAdoo, A. Mitchell
Palmer, James M. Cox
Candidates:
James M. Cox – Pres.
F. D. Roosevelt – V.P.
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Election of 1920
Democrats:
James M. Cox – Pres.
Franklin D. Roosevelt – V.P.
Cox
Roosevelt
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Election of 1920
Socialists:
Eugene V. Debs – Pres.
Debs
Debs in Prison
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Election of 1920
Republicans – Warren G. Harding - 60% of Popular Vote
Democrats – James M. Cox -34% of Popular Vote
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Red Scare of 1919
Bartolomeo
Vanzetti
Nicola
Sacco
A. Mitchell Palmer
U.S. Attorney-General
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Ku Klux Klan of 1920s
D.W. Griffith – Birth of a Nation, 1915
Klan on Parade in
Washington D.C. 1920s
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Immigration Restrictions
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Immigration Act of 1924
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Prohibition
18th Amendment – 1919
Volstead Act of 1920 - Speakeasies
“Yes, it’s a noble experiment!”
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Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925
Butler Act of 1925 - Tennessee
Best Minds
The Verdict
The Sun, July 21, 1925
The Sun, July 22, 1925
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Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925
American Civil Liberties Union
John T. Scopes – Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Scopes
Darrow
Bryan
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Mass Consumption Economy
Henry Ford
Assembly Line System
Advertising Autos – Ford
Frederick W. Taylor
Henry Ford
Model T - 1915
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Mass Consumption Economy
Charles Lindbergh - Aircraft
U.S. Postal Service
The Spirit of St. Louis
1927
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Mass Communications
Radio – KDKA - Pittsburg, PA
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Mass Entertainment
Motion Pictures
The Great Train Robbery – 1903
Birth of a Nation – 1915
The Jazz Singer - 1927
The Great Train Robbery
The Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation17
Harding Administration - Cabinet
Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes
Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Treasury
Andrew Mellon
Secretary of the Interior
Albert B. Fall
U.S. Attorney-General
Harry M. Daugherty
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Harding Administration - Court
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
(1921-1930)
Charles Evans Hughes
(1930-1941)
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Harding – Foreign Affairs
Treaty of Versailles
Joint Resolution
of Congress July 1921
Washington Naval
Disarmament Conference
1921-1922
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Harding – Foreign Affairs
Kellogg-Briand Pact
of 1928
(Pact of Paris)
Fordnew-McCumber Tariff
of 1922
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Harding Scandals
Teapot Dome Scandal
Juggernaut, 1924
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Harding Scandals
Charles R. Forbes
Albert B. Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Edward L. Doheny
Harry M. Daugherty
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Election of 1924
“Keep Cool with Coolidge”
Republicans – Calvin Coolidge
Democrats – John W. Davis
Progressives – Robert La Follette
Coolidge
Davis
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Sources:
Warren G. Harding http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a53000/3a53300 /3a53301v.jpg
Calvin Coolidge -http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a53000/3a53300 /3a53302v.jpg
FDR 1920 - http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/photodb/09-2621a.gif
Debs in Prison - http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/resources/Private/Faculty/Fac_From1877ChapterDoc/ChapterImages/Ch22EugeneVDebs.jpg
Eugene V. Debs 2 - http://library.indstate.edu/level1.dir/cml/rbsc/debs/images/BoxA/A5.gif
James M. Cox 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?cdn:3:./temp/~ammem_M0js::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n072514:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aaeo,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbp
ix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,cdn,cic,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lom
axbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upbover
bib,varstg,horyd,hawp,suffrg,awh,awhbib,wright
Sacco & Vanzetti 1 & 1 - http://www.vw.cc.va.us/vwhansd/HIS122/Sacco-Vanzetti.html
Mitchell Palmer - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?cdn:1:./temp/~ammem_Hsg9::displayType=1:m856sd=ichicdn:m856sf=n072271:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aaeo,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbp
ix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,cdn,cic,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lom
axbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upbover
bib,varstg,horyd,hawp,suffrg,awh,awhbib,wright
Birth of a Nation - http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html
Radio 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?fsaall:64:./temp/~ammem_n22r::displayType=1:m856sd=fsa:m856sf=8c00054:@@@
Radio 4 - http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00186228+Rh-1228
Darrow and Bryan - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Best Minds Cartoon - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/gallery/gal_monkeytrial_04.html
The Verdict Cartoon - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/gallery/gal_monkeytrial_06.html
John T. Scopes - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=3526&PIgrid=3526&PIcrid=75345&PIpi=550991&pt=John+T.+Scopes&
Henry Ford 1 - http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford.html
The Jazz Singer - http://www.filmsite.org/jazz.html
The Great Train Robbery - http://www.wildwestweb.net/great.html
Birth of a Nation - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/6370/birthofanation.html
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Sources:
Charles Lindbergh - http://www.charleslindbergh.com/pictures/lindbergh.jpg
Charles Lindbergh 2 - http://www.charleslindbergh.com/pictures/lindberg55.jpg
Spirit of St. Louis - http://www.charleslindbergh.com/pictures/pf071543.jpg
U.S. Supreme Court Seal - http://news-info.wustl.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/428_h.jpg
Hughes 1 - http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/hughes.htm
Taft 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?detr:40:./temp/~ammem_yW85::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a25022:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aaeo,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbpix
,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,cdn,cic,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomax
bib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upboverbib
,varstg,horyd,hawp,suffrg,awh,awhbib,wright
Teapot Dome Cartoon - http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/timelinf/teapot.htm
John W. Davis - http://lawlibrary.wlu.edu/faculty/history/davis.htm
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