1920's, the great depression and the new deal
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1920's, The Great Depression and the New Deal. The Second Industrial Revolution. Innovation U.S. develops the highest standard of living in the world The twenties and the second revolution electricity replaces steam modern assembly introduced - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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1920's, The Great Depression and the New Deal
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The Second Industrial Revolution
• Innovation• U.S. develops the highest standard of
living in the world • The twenties and the second revolution
– electricity replaces steam – modern assembly introduced
• Airplanes – Charles Lindbergh – first solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean (1927)
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Socially transforming innovations
• electricity– electric lightbulb (1880's – 1924 the Phoebus
cartel)• automobile
– mass production – assembly line– Fordism
• radio
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Scientific Advancements and Conservatism
• The Scopes Trial (1925)• Eugenics – Immigration Act of 1924
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The Automobile Industry
• Auto makers stimulate sales through model changes, advertising
• Auto industry fosters other businesses• Autos encourage suburban sprawl
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Patterns of Economic Growth
• Structural change– professional managers replace individual
entrepreneurs– corporations become the dominant business
form• Big business weakens regionalism, brings
uniformity to America
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Glenwood Stove Ad
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Economic Weaknesses
• Railroads poorly managed• Coal displaced by petroleum• Farmers face decline in exports, prices• Growing disparity between income of
laborers, middle-class managers• Middle class speculates with idle money
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City Life in the Jazz Age
• Rapid increase in urban population • Skyscrapers symbolize the new mass
culture • Communities of home, church, and school
are absent in the cities
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Women and the Family
• Ongoing crusade for equal rights• “Flappers” seek individual freedom• Most women remain in domestic sphere• Discovery of adolescence
– teenaged children no longer need to work– indulge their craving for excitement
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The Roaring Twenties
• Decade notable for obsessive interest in celebrities
• Sex becomes an all-consuming topic of interest in popular entertainment
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The Flowering of the Arts
• Alienation from 20s’ mass culture• "Exiled" American writers put U.S. in
forefront of world literature– T.S. Eliot– Ernest Hemingway– F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Harlem Renaissance--African Americans prominent in music, poetry
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The Rural Counterattack
• Rural Americans identify urban culture with Communism, crime, immorality
• Progressives attempt to force reform on the American people– upsurge of bigotry – an era of repression
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The Fear of Radicalism
• 1919-- “Red Scare” – illegal roundups of innocent people – forcible deportation of aliens– terrorism against “radicals,” immigrants
• 1927-- Sacco and Vanzetti executed
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Prohibition
• 1918--18th Amendment ratified• 1920--Volstead Act prohibits production,
sale, or transport of alcoholic beverages • Consumption of alcohol reduced• Prohibition resented in urban areas • Bootlegging becomes big business• 1933--18th amendment repealed
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The Ku Klux Klan
• 1925--Klan membership hits 5 million• Attack on urban culture, inhabitants• Defense of traditional rural values• Klan seeks to win U.S. by persuasion• Violence, internal corruption result in
Klan’s virtual disappearance by 1930
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Immigration Restriction
• 1924--Congress restricts all immigration• Preferential quotas to northern Europeans • Mexican immigrants exempt from quota
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The Fundamentalist Challenge
• Fundamentalism: stress on traditional Protestant orthodoxy, biblical literalism
• 1925--Scopes Trial discredits fundamentalism among intellectuals
• “Modernists” gain mainline churches• Fundamentalists strengthen grassroots
appeal in new churches
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Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
• Republican presidents appeal to traditional American values
• Harding scandals break after his death• Coolidge represents America in his
austerity and rectitude• Hoover represents the self-made man
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The Election of 1928
• Democrat Al Smith carries urban vote– governor of New York – Roman Catholic
• Republican Herbert Hoover wins race– Midwesterner – Protestant
• Religion the campaign’s decisive issue
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The Great Crash
• 1928--soaring stock prices attract individual, corporate investment
• 1929--stock market crashes– directly affects 3 million– credit crunch stifles business
• Businesses lay off workers• Demand for consumer goods declines
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Effects of the Depression
• Hardship affects all classes • The middle class loses belief in ever-
increasing prosperity• Thousands of young homeless, jobless
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Fighting the Depression
• Republican attempts to overcome catastrophe flounder
• Depression gives Democrats opportunity to regain power
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Hoover and Voluntarism
• Hoover initially seeks solution through voluntary action, private charity
• Eventually aids farmers and bankers• Resists Democratic efforts to give direct
aid to the unemployed– perceived as indifferent to human suffering– programs seen as incompetent
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Bank Failures, 1929-1933
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The Emergence of Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt– born to wealth and privilege– 1921--crippled by polio– 1928--elected governor of New York– talented politician
• 1932--defeats Hoover with farmer- worker-immigrant-Catholic coalition
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The Hundred Days
• Banking system saved from collapse• Fifteen major laws provide relief• New Deal aims to reform and restore, not
nationalize, the economy
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Roosevelt and Recovery• National Recovery Administration
– industries formulate codes to eliminate cut-throat competition, ensure labor peace
– codes favor big business, unenforceable– 1935--NRA ruled unconstitutional
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933– farmers paid to take land out of cultivation– prices increase– sharecroppers, tenant farmers dispossessed
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Roosevelt and Relief
• 1933--Harry Hopkins placed in charge of RFC to direct aid to unemployed
• 1933--Civilian Conservation Corps provides employment to young people
• 1935--Works Progress Administration place unemployed on federal payroll
• Programs never sufficiently funded
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Roosevelt and Reform
• 1933-34--focus on immediate problems • 1935--shift to permanent economic reform
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Challenges to FDR
• Father Charles Coughlin advocates nationalizing banks, anti-Semitism
• Francis Townsend calls for wealth redistribution from young to the elderly
• Huey Long calls for redistribution of wealth by seizing private fortunes
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Social Security
• 1935--Social Security Act passed• Criticisms
– too few people would collect pensions – unemployment package inadequate
• Establishes pattern of government aid to poor, aged, handicapped
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Labor Legislation
• 1935--Wagner Act – allows unions to organize – outlaws unfair labor practices
• 1938--Fair Labor Standard Act – maximum hour – minimum wage
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Impact of the New Deal
• Had a broad influence on the quality of life in the U.S. in the 1930s
• Helps labor unions most• Helps women, minorities least
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Rise of Organized Labor
• 1932--National Recovery Act spurs union organizers
• Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) formed by John L. Lewis
• CIO unionizes steel, auto industries• 1940--CIO membership hits 5 million, 28%
of labor force unionized
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The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities
• Crop reduction program allows whites to fire or evict blacks, Hispanics
• Public works programs help by providing employment
• New Deal figures convince minorities that the government is on their side
• 1934--Indian Reorganization Act gives American Indians greater control
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Women at Work
• Position of women deteriorates in ‘30s– jobs lost at a faster rate than men– hardly any New Deal programs help
• Progress in government– Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, the first
woman cabinet member– women appointed to several other posts– Eleanor Roosevelt a model for activism
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End of the New Deal
• 1936--New Deal peaks with Roosevelt’s reelection
• Congress resists programs after 1936
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The Election of 1936
• FDR’s campaign– attacks the rich – promises further reforms – defeats Republican Alf Landon
• Democrats win lopsided majorities in both houses of Congress
• FDR coalition: South, cities, labor, ethnic groups, African Americans, poor
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The Supreme Court Fight
• Supreme Court blocks several of FDR’s first-term programs
• 1937--FDR seeks right to "pack" Court• Congressional protest forces retreat• FDR’s opponents emboldened
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The New Deal in Decline
• 1936--cutbacks for relief agencies • 1937--severe slump hits economy• Roosevelt blamed, resorts to huge
government spending• 1938--Republican party revives
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The New Deal and American Life
• New Deal’s limitations– depression not ended– economic system not fundamentally altered – little done for those without political clout
• Achievements– Social Security, the Wagner Act – political realignment of the 1930s