POST WORLD WAR I ISSUES
AND THE UNITED STATES
SSUSH16 The student will identify key
developments in the aftermath of WW I.
SSUSH17 The student will analyze the
causes and consequences of the Great
Depression.
SSUSH18 The student will describe
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a
response to the depression and compare
the ways governmental programs aided
those in need.
POST WORLD WAR I ISSUES
AND THE UNITED STATES
1. POSTWAR TRENDS
A. NATIVISM-is opposition to immigration
which originated in United States politics with
roots in the country's historic role as a
melting pot.
Prejudice against foreign-born people
B.ISOLATIONISM-a foreign policy which
involves a non-interventionist military policy;
Political rulers should avoid entangling
alliances with other nations and avoid all wars
not related to direct territorial self-defense.
Avoiding involvement in world affairs
POST WORLD WAR I ISSUES
AND THE UNITED STATES:
TRENDS, CONTINUED
C. THE FIRST RED SCARE
1. A PERCEIVED THREAT,
COMMUNISM…
a.ECO/POL SYSTEM BASED ON ONE
PARTY GOVT RULED BY DICTATORSHIP
b.the First Red Scare took place in
the period 1917–1920, and was marked
by a widespread fear of anarchism
POST WAR TRENDS
The First Red Scare began during World
War I in which the United States fought
during 1917-1918. The Bolshevik
revolution in Russia and the ensuing
Russian Civil War (1917–1923) inspired
a widespread campaign of violence in
the U.S. by various anti-government
groups.
POST WAR TRENDS
Political cartoon of
the era depicting an
anarchist attempting
to destroy the
Statue of Liberty.
POST WAR TRENDS
The largest government actions of the
Red Scare were the Palmer Raids
against anarchist, socialist, and
communist groups. Left-wing activists,
such as five-time Socialist presidential
nominee Eugene V. Debs, were jailed by
government officials using the
Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition
Act of 1918.
A. Mitchell Palmer, U.S.Attorney General
RED SCARE, PALMER RAIDS
A. MITCHELL
PALMER
POST WAR TRENDS
1. REACTIONS TO RED SCARE…AND
NATIVISM
a.surge of patriotism, often involving
violent hatred of communists, socialists,
radicals, and immigrants
b.immigrant quota system, the max
number of immigrants which could
enter USA
SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE (EXAMPLE OF
IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA)
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891)
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888)
were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists
who were tried, convicted and executed via
electrocution on August 23, 1927 in
Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery
and murder of a pay-clerk and a security
guard in Braintree, Massachusetts.
SACCO AND VANZETTI
SUMMATION, GPS 15, 16a.
SSUSH15 The student will analyze the origins and impact of U.S.
involvement in
World War I.
a. Describe the movement from U.S. neutrality to engagement in World War I,
with reference to unrestricted submarine warfare.
b. Explain the domestic impact of World War I, as reflected by the origins of the
Great Migration, the Espionage Act, and socialist Eugene Debs.
c. Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the proposed League of Nations.
SSUSH16 The student will identify key developments in the aftermath
of WW I.
a. Explain how rising communism and socialism in the United States led to the
Red Scare and immigrant restriction.
RISE OF SOCIALISM AND
COMMUNISM
The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is
a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.
During the first half of the 20th century it was the largest and most
widely influential communist party in the country, and played a
prominent role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the
1940s, founding most of the country's major industrial unions and
pursuing intense anti-racist activity in workplaces and city communities
throughout this first part of its existence.
Simultaneously the CPUSA survived the Palmer Raids, the first Red
Scare, and many similar attempts at suppression of communist activity
by the Government of the United States through the end of World War
II.
By August 1919, only months after its founding, the CPUSA had 60,000
members, including anarchists and other leftists, while the more
moderate Socialist Party of America had only 40,000.
POST WAR, AMERICAN BUSINESS
1.HENRY FORD - (July 30, 1863 – April
7, 1947) was the American founder of
the Ford Motor Company and father of
modern assembly lines used in mass
production. His introduction of the
Model T automobile revolutionized
transportation and American industry.
He was a prolific inventor and was
awarded 161 U.S. patents.
POST WAR, AMERICAN BUSINESS
"Fordism“, the mass production of large
numbers of inexpensive automobiles
using the assembly line, coupled with
high wages for his workers.
HENRY FORD
POST WAR, AMERICAN BUSINESS
Mass production is the production of large
amounts of standardized products on
production lines.
It was popularized by Henry Ford in the early
20th century, notably in his Ford Model T.
Mass production typically uses moving tracks
or conveyor belts to move partially complete
products to workers to perform simple
repetitive tasks. This permits very high rates
of production.
POST WAR, AMERICAN BUSINESS
An assembly line is a manufacturing
process in which parts (usually
interchangeable parts) are added to a
product in a sequential manner .
The best known form of the assembly line,
the moving assembly line, was realized into
practice by Ford Motor Company between
1908 and 1915, and made famous in the
following decade by the social ramifications of
mass production, such as the affordability of
POST WAR, AMERICAN
BUSINESS, THE
AUTOMOBILE
P. 629, TEXT, IMPACT…READ AND LIST
3 IMPACTS OF THE CAR, THE AUTO.
THE AUTOMOBILE, 1910, FORD
MODEL T
THE MODEL T, FORD
first affordable automobile, the car that
"put America on wheels"
THE AUTOMOBILE
“I will build a car for the great multitude. It
will be large enough for the family, but small
enough for the individual to run and care for.
It will be constructed of the best materials, by
the best men to be hired, after the simplest
designs that modern engineering can devise.
But it will be low in price that no man making
a good salary will be unable to own one-and
enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of
pleasure in God's great open spaces.” HENRY
FORD
IMPACT OF AUTOMOBILE
PAVED ROADS
Route 66, "Main Street of America" or
the "Mother Road"
CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS, 1920S
JAZZ, an American musical art form
which originated in the beginning of the
20th century in black-American
communities in the Southern United
States from a confluence of African and
European music traditions.
JAZZ
LOUIS ARMSTRONG,
American jazz trumpeter and
singer.
IRVING BERLIN
Irving Berlin (11 May 1888 – 22
September 1989) was a Russian-born
American composer and lyricist, and
one of the most prolific American
songwriters in history. Berlin was one of
the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway
songwriters who wrote both lyrics and
music for his songs.
"God Bless America", "White
Christmas", "Anything You Can Do",
"There's No Business Like Show
Business"
TIN PAN ALLEY
Tin Pan Alley is the name
given to the collection of New
York City-centered music
publishers and songwriters who
dominated the popular music of
the United States in the late
19th century and early 20th
century.
Tin Pan Alley was originally a
specific place in New York City,
West 28th Street between Fifth
and Sixth Avenue.
Derogatory reference to
the sound made by
many pianos all playing
different tunes in this
small urban area
“Banging tin pans
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Harlem Renaissance
Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City
Impacted urban centers throughout the United States across the
cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance)
and also in the realm of social thought (sociology,
historiography, philosophy)
artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical
experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences
of black life in the urban North.
Challenged white paternalism and racism
African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the
styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated
black dignity and creativity.
LANGSTON HUGHES, FAMOUS POET OF THE MOVEMENT
HARLEM RENAISSANCE,
LANGSTON HUGHES
poet, columnist,
dramatist, essayist,
lyricist, novelist,
social activist, writer
(1923)
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Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
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Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
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I heard a Negro play.
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Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
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By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
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He did a lazy sway ....
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He did a lazy sway ....
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To the tune o' those Weary Blues.
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With his ebony hands on each ivory key
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He made that poor piano moan with melody.
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O Blues!
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Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
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He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
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Sweet Blues!
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Coming from a black man's soul.
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O Blues!
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In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone
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I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan-19
"Ain't got nobody in all this world,
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Ain't got nobody but ma self.
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I's gwine to quit ma frownin'
And put ma troubles on the shelf."
Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
He played a few chords then he sang some more-"I got the Weary Blues
And I can't be satisfied.
Got the Weary Blues
And can't be satisfied-I ain't happy no mo'
And I wish that I had died."
And far into the night he crooned that tune.
The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
Summary: The speaker of Langston Hughes's "The
Weary Blues" describes an evening of listening to a
blues musician in Harlem. With its diction, its
repetition of lines and its inclusion of blues lyrics, the
poem evokes the mournful tone and tempo of blues
music and gives readers an appreciation of the state
of mind of the blues musician in the poem.
THE ROARING TWENTIES
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to
describe the 1920s, principally in North
America, that emphasizes the period's
social, artistic, and cultural dynamism.
'Normalcy' returned to politics in the
wake of World War I, jazz music
blossomed, the flapper redefined
modern womanhood
THE ROARING TWENTIES…
THE JAZZ AGE
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE GREAT GATSBY
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
CHARLES LINDBERGH, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
BABE RUTH, MLB
PROHIBITION, BOOTLEGGERS, SPEAKEASIES
FLAPPERS, in the 1920s referred to a "new
breed" of young women who wore short
skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new
Jazz music