THE ROARING 20S
S2, Day 32
OBJECTIVES
The students will be able to evaluate to what
extent the Great War contributed to the normalcy
vision of Warren G. Harding.
Students will be able to analyze to what extent
technological innovations improved the lives of
the American people.
WARM UP
In your own words, define the word
normalcy.
Then take 3 minutes and describe what
normalcy looked like in the early 1920s?
THE “SOLEMN REFERENDUM”
OF 1920
Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding of OH
and Calvin Coolidge of MA
Democrats nominate James M. Cox of OH and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Asst Secretary of the
Navy
Harding-work for a vague league, not the League,
a return to normalcy
Cox-supported the League
Eugene V. Debs-Socialist (ran while in jail)
THE BETRAYAL OF GREAT
EXPECTATIONS
U.S. never joins the League of Nations
U.S. senate spurned Security Treaty with
France
France rearmed as well as
Germany, illegally
Spoiler Alert!!! This Leads to WWII
CHAPTER 31-ROARING 20’S
Nativism and Intolerance
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Red scare of 1919-1920
December 1919-249 radicals deported
September 1920-Wall Street bomb
Criminal syndicalism laws
unlawful to advocate violence to secure social change
Negatively impacted unionism and the closed shop as elements of
Russia
Businesses supported the American plan
The new KKK
anti-everything
thrived in the Midwest/South-Bible Belt
survived because of the social changes in the 20’s
Nativism
800,000 immigrants in 1920-21
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
limited to 3% of whatever the US population of
that nationality was a the time
Immigration Act of 1924Cut it from 3% to 2%
Freeze existing racial composition-Northern Europe
cut out Japan, exempted Canada/Latin America
IMPACTS OF IMMIGRATION
RESTRICTION
Separated ethnic enclaves- like Little Italy,
China Town
Own churches- Like Russian Orthodox,
Greek Orthodox
Increased ethnic rivalries- Think the Sharks
(Puerto Ricans) vs. Jets (Caucasians) from
West Side Story
PROHIBITION
The Mob
Increased crime
Organized crime
Speakeasies
Moonshine/ Bathtub Gin
FUNDAMENTALISM V. DARWIN
Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925
John T. Scopes taught evolution,
violating Tennessee state law
Clarence Darrow-represented Scopes
William Jennings Bryan-represented
the Bible
Challenged the literal interpretation of the
Bible
CULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS
Could American manufacturers find the mass markets for the goods they
had developed?
Advertising
make Americans unhappy with their meager possessions.
Sports
Boxing
Baseball- Babe Ruth
Cars-Assembly line
Buying on Credit !!!
vulnerable to disruptions of credit
CULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS
Gasoline age- Opened up the world through
Cars
Airplanes
Radio
People would leave in their cars in the morning
and come back in the evening to listen to their radios
Movies
nickelodeons (because they charged a nickel)
propaganda
THE DYNAMIC DECADE
1920-Most Americans living in urban areas
Contraceptives
Margaret Sanger
Fundamentalists (God is controlling) to the Modernists
(God is friendly)
“Flappers”
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Harlem Renaissance
“New Negro”- cultural center, drawing black writers,
artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
FEELINGS CHECK
Did we achieve our objectives?
The students will be able to evaluate to what
extent the Great War contributed to the normalcy
vision of Warren G. Harding.
Students will be able to analyze to what extent
technological innovations improved the lives of
the American people.
HOMEWORK
Keep Reading Chapters 30,
31, and 32