america in the 1920’s and 1930’s
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America in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Women’s Rights. 19 th Amendment is passed in August of 1920 – gave women the right to vote Flappers – women who challenged traditional dress and behavior. Red Scare. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
America in the 1920’s and 1930’s
Women’s Rights
• 19th Amendment is passed in August of 1920 – gave women the right to vote
• Flappers – women who challenged traditional dress and behavior
Red Scare
• Labor unrest, strikes and violence led many people to worry about Communist/Anarchist influence in the US.
• Xenophobia – fear and hatred of foreigners
• Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti – executed in 1927
• American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU
Great Migration
• During the 1920’s, hundreds of thousands of black southerners began moving to the North to escape racial prejudice
• Faced opposition from whites concerned about job losses
• 25 urban race riots during the 1920’s in the North
1920’s politics• Warren Harding elected President in 1920• Ohio Gang• Teapot Dome Scandal• Harding dies in 1923 – Calvin Coolidge takes
over• Disarmament – limiting military weapons• Kellogg-Briand Pact – 1928 – outlawed war• Herbert Hoover elected President in 1928• Republican policies were pro-business –
believed that it was not the government’s job to solve social problems
• Country became isolationist again
Prohibition• January 16, 1920 – 18th amendment is
passed – banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
• Speakeasies – illegal clubs that sold alcohol
• Bootleggers – alcohol smugglers• Led to the rise of major criminal
organizations – Al Capone• December 5th, 1933 – 21st amendment
ends Prohibition
Culture Wars
• Fundamentalism – teaches that the Bible is literally true and free of error
• 1925 – Scopes Monkey Trial• Nativism – anti-immigrant feelings• Emergency Quota Act – 1921 – limited
immigration to 375,000 a year• National Origins Act – 1924 – favored
European immigrants over other races
Boom Times
• 1920’s – economic growth and business doubled• Henry Ford – used assembly line techniques to
manufacture large numbers of cars – Model T - $290 in 1927
• Mass production methods led to tremendous business growth and new job opportunities
• Installment plans – customers made down payments and had a monthly payment after that
Jazz Age
• Fads – Flappers, Marathon Dancing, Flagpole Sitting
• 1920 – radio programs are aired regularly for the first time
• Movies were invented in the late 1800’s – Nickelodeons – early theaters
• 1927 – first movie with sound is released – “The Jazz Singer”
Famous People of the 1920’s• Movies – Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino,
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo• Sports – Jim Thorpe – Football/Olympics• Helen Wills – Tennis• Red Grange – Football• George Herman Ruth “Babe” – Baseball• Leroy (Satchel) Paige, James (Cool Papa) Bell –
Negro Leagues Baseball• Charles Lindbergh – Pilot – first to fly across the
Atlantic – 1927• Amelia Earhart – Female pilot – disappeared in 1937
Blues and Jazz• Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz were popular music
styles during the 1920’s• Ragtime – Scott Joplin• Blues – W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith• Jazz – Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington• Harlem Renaissance – period of African-
American artistic growth – Langston Hughes• Lost Generation – writers disgusted by the
destruction of World War I – Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Expatriate – person who leaves their native country to live elsewhere