Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY: A SURVEY, 10/e

Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Era

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Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Era

• The New Economy– Economic Growth• European rebuilding

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• The New Economy– Economic Growth• European rebuilding• Technology

Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Era

• The New Economy– Economic Growth• European rebuilding• Technology• Industrial expansion

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• The New Economy– Economic Organization

Sterret Operating Service. General Motors show in Washington Auditorium (Library of Congress)

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• The New Economy– Labor in the New Era• Welfare Capitalism

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• The New Economy– Labor in the New Era• Welfare Capitalism• Small gains in labor

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• The New Economy– Labor in the New Era• Welfare Capitalism• Small gains in labor• Weakness of Unions

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• The New Economy– Women and Minorities in the Work Force

Indicator department, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, O[hio] (Library of Congress)

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• The New Economy– The “American Plan”• Union busting

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• The New Economy– The “American Plan”• Union busting• Ending strikes

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• The New Economy– The “American Plan”• Union busting• Ending strikes• Refusing protection to agitators

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• The New Economy– The Plight of the Farmer

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• The New Culture– Consumerism

Northern Manufacturing Company car (Library of Congress)

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• The New Culture– Advertising

Sand modeling, Atlantic City, N.J. (Library of Congress)

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• The New Culture– The Movies and Broadcasting

Princess Theatre (Library of Congress)

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• The New Culture– Modernist Religion

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• The New Culture– Professional Women

Woman in Red Cross nurse's uniform (Library of Congress)

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• The New Culture– Changing Ideas of Motherhood

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• The New Culture– The “Flapper”: Image and Reality

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• The New Culture– Pressing for Women’s Rights• National Women’s Party

Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Era

• The New Culture– Pressing for Women’s Rights• National Women’s Party• League of Women Voters

Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Era

• The New Culture– Pressing for Women’s Rights• National Women’s Party• League of Women Voters• Sheppard-Towner Act

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• The New Culture– Education and Youth• Increased attendance

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• The New Culture– Education and Youth• Increased attendance• Expanded curriculum

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• The New Culture– Education and Youth• Increased attendance• Expanded curriculum• Social training

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• The New Culture– The Decline of the “Self-Made Man”

“The self made manager in business is nearly at the end of his road.”

Century Magazine

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• The New Culture– The Disenchanted

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• The New Culture– The Harlem Renaissance

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• The New Culture– The Southern Agrarians

“In its very backwardness, the South had clung to some secret which embodied, it seemed, the elements out of which its own reconstruction- and possibly even the reconstruction of America- might be achieved”

Donald Davidson

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• A Conflict of Cultures– Prohibition

Anti-Saloon League at Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1921 (Library of Congress)

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• A Conflict of Cultures– Nativism and the Klan

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• A Conflict of Cultures– Religious Fundamentalism

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• A Conflict of Cultures– The Democrats’ Ordeal

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• Republican Government– Harding and Coolidge

President Harding with pet dog Laddie (Library of Congress)

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• Republican Government– Government and Business

Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)

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• Patterns of Popular Culture: DANCE HALLS

Interior of Rainbow Room in Hamilton Hotel III Washington DC (Library of Congress)