Chapter 11: Review The
Twenties
2.
• They followed a laissez-faire
policy of not restricting
business.
• They preferred to be umpires
instead of guardians helping
the public.
• Presidents should not actively
lead.
3.
• Jazz Age
• Roaring Twenties
• Era of Wonderful Nonsense
4.
• Moving assembly line moved
materials quickly to the men
where they could add parts
which were delivered to their
stations
• Above average wages for
employees (he paid up to
$5.00 a day)
5.
• Washington Naval Treaty
(control Japan)
• Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawed
war)
• U.S. followed an isolationist
policy of avoiding other nations
in order to avoid another war.
6.
• Fear of communists
• Cut back on immigration from
central and eastern Europe.
• Deported those suspected of
being dangerous.
7.
• Set a percentage of people
allowed in from a country.
• Southern and Eastern
Europeans
8.
• Two Italian anarchists arrested
for burglary and robbery
• Many were convinced that they
were convicted and executed
because of their political
beliefs, not because of the
evidence against them
9.
• Short recession right after WWI
ended
• The country then experienced a
time of prosperity as businesses
expanded , workers had jobs,
wages went up, and more products
were produced
• Farmers
10.
• Jazz music (records on
phonographs)
• Nickelodeons or Movie Palaces
• Talking movies began in 1927 with Al
Jolson in The Jazz Singer
• Radio (KDKA in Pittsburgh was the
first official radio station in 1920.
11.
• Writers who believed Americans
were obsessed with money and
material things
• People didn’t appreciate the arts
• Many left the U.S. and relocated in
Paris.
12.
• Rebirth of black culture in literature
and art
• Helped unify African Americans by
giving them more pride in their
heritage
• Looked at the pains and joys of
being black in America
13.
• African American leader who
favored a black nation
• Self-respect, economic power,
and independence were the
goals of his Negro Nationalism
14.
• Spread to northern cities
• Now targeted Catholics, Jews,
and immigrants
15.
• First solo nonstop across the
Atlantic
• First woman to fly solo across
the Atlantic
16.
• Trial of Scopes, a teacher who read
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his
class which violated the law.
• Fundamentalism (religion) v.
modernism (science)
• Bryan – prosecution, for the Bible
• Darrow – defense, for evolution
17.
• Started by 18th Amendment when
alcohol was illegal
• Increased crime
• Showed difference between urban
and rural areas
• Bootleggers – sold illegal alcohol
• Speakeasies – illegal bars
• Government agents
• Most successful at breaking up bars
18.
• Could vote
• New job opportunities
• More freedom from household
and family duties
• Divorce rates increased
• Job discrimination and low
wages were still a problem
19.
• Teapot Dome over oil fields
• Veterans’ Bureau over money
for veterans’ hospital
• Attorney General selling
pardons, paroles, and covering
up liquor violations
20.
• Made people want the new products like
refrigerators, radios, washing machines
• Appealed to emotions and insecurities to
get people to buy
• Installment buying – put a little down and
paid the rest in monthly installments
• People now had more opportunities for
entertainment and standard of living rose
21.
• Money paid for war damages
• Britain and France couldn’t pay their war
debts to us because Germany couldn’t
pay them
• Under the Dawes Plan, we loaned
money to Germany so they could pay
reparations to them so they could pay
us.
22.
• Employers now gave workers
paid vacations, health care,
and higher wages.
• There were fewer strikes and
union membership dropped.
23.
• Urban to suburbs (mainly due
to the automobile)
• Great Migration of African
Americans from South to North
24.
• Needed better education for
the higher paying urban jobs
which needed more math and
science
• Rural areas still relied on
teaching the 3 Rs (reading,
writing, arithmetic)
Social Effects
• Deal with people and relationships
–Red Scare
–Great Migration
–Racial Tensions
–Harlem Renaissance
–Rural/urban split
–Increased educational
opportunities
Political Effects
• 18th Amendment (which also had
social effect – more crime)
• 19th Amendment (which also had
social effect – equality)
• Immigration restrictions (quotas)
• Sacco and Vanzetti conviction
• Harding scandals
• Ohio Gang
Economic Effects
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Consumer revolution
Installment buying
Prosperity
Bull market
Advertising became big
business
• Welfare capitalism