coping with change 1920-1929 chapter 23. 2 readings you must read the entire chapter and prepare for...
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Coping with Change
1920-1929
Chapter 23
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Readings
• You must read the entire chapter and prepare for reading check quizes.– Pp. 697-706– Pp. 706-723– Pp. 723-726
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A New Economic Order
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Booming Business, Ailing Agriculture
• Henry Ford– 1927 Model A
– Fordism• Assembly line
processBy 1930 100 corporations controlled ½ the US wealth.
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Figure 23.1: Economic
Expansion, 1920–1929
Figure 23.3: The Automobile Age: Passenger Cars
Registered in the United States, 1900–1992
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New Modes of Producing, Managing, and Selling
• Advertisements– Radio– Billboards– Newspaper– Magazine– $2 Billion
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Literature
• Your Money’s Worth
• Consumer Research Bulletin
• The Man Nobody Knows
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Struggling Labor Unions in a Business Age
• Unions often smeared with “Communist” label.
• Black excluded by most unions
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Standpat Politics in a Decade of Change
• Harding’s Cabinet– Henry C. Wallace– Charles Evans Hughes– Andrew Mellon– Herbert Hoover– Harry Daugherty– Albert Fall– Charles Forbes
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The Evolving Presidency: Scandals and Public-Relations Manipulation
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Teapot Dome
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Calvin Coolidge
• Warren Harding
• “Silent Cal”• Wife, “What did the preacher preach on?”
• Coolidge, “Sin”
• Wife, “What did he say about sin?”
• Coolidge, “He was against it!”
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Silent “Cal”• “The business of America
is business.”
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Republican Policy Making in a Pro-business Era
• McNary-Haugen Bill
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Independent Internationalism
• Washington Naval Arms Conference
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Progressive Stirrings, Democratic Party Divisions
• Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
• Ku Klux Klan
• Alfred E. Smith
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Mass Society, Mass Culture
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Prohibition
Colonel L.B. Musgrove,
Prohibition Party Member
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Cities, Cars, Consumer Goods
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Map 23.1: The Election of 1928
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Figure 23.2: The Urban and Rural Population of the United States, 1900–
2000
Figure 23.4: The African-American Urban Population, 1880–1960 (in millions)
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Soaring Energy Consumption and Environmental Threats
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Mass-Produced Entertainment
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Mass-Produced Entertainment, continued…
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Celebrity Culture
• Charles Lindbergh
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Cultural Ferment and Creativity
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The Jazz Age and Postwar Crisis of Values
• Flappers
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The New Woman in the 1920’s
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Alienated Writers
• H.L. Mencken
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