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Chapter 12: Politics of the Roaring Twenties
Sect. 1Americans Struggle with
Postwar Issues
Americans Struggle
• Nativism
• Isolationism
Fear of Communism
• The Red Scare
• Palmer Raids– Anarchists
• Sacco and Vanzetti
Limiting Immigration
• Ku Klux Klan– “100% Americanism”
• The Quota System– Emergency Quota Act
The Harding Presidency
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Scandal Hits Harding’s Administration
• “Ohio Gang”
• Teapot Dome Scandal– Albert Fall
The Business of America
• Calvin Coolidge– “the chief business of the American people is
business…”
• The Automobile– Roadways– Urban Sprawl– Tin Lizzy
• The Airplane– Charles Lindbergh
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America’s Standard of Living Soars
• Buying Goods on Credit– Installment Plan
• Pros and Cons
Changing Ways of Life
• Prohibition– Moral Reform– Woman’s Christian Temperance
Movement• Speakeasies and Bootleggers
• Organized Crime– Al Capone– 21st Amendment
Science and Religion Clash
• Fundamentalism– Vs Evolution
• Scopes Trial– Darrow vs WJB– Effect
The Twenties Woman
• Flappers– Old vs New
• New Work Opportunities– One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Education and Popular Culture
• School– Enrollment
• Radio– Effect
• Heroes– Ruth– Lindbergh
• Entertainment– “Talkies”
• Writers of the 1920s– F Scott Fitzgerald– Ernest Hemingway
The Harlem Renaissance
• Effect of the Great Migration– NAACP
• Marcus Garvey
• African-American Writers– Langston Hughes
• Jazz– Louis Armstrong– “Duke” Ellington– Bessie Smith
Chapter 14
The Great Depression Begins
Causes of the Great Depression
• Uneven Distribution of Wealth• Easy Availability of Credit• Relationships with Foreign Countries• Crisis in the Farm Sector
Hoover Takes the Nation
• Election of 1928
• Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Speculation• Buying on Margin
The Stock Market Crashes
• September 1929• Black Tuesday
Bank Failures
• How Banks Made it Worse
• Unemployment
Hardship and Suffering During the Depression
• The Depression in the Cities– “Hoovervilles”– Soup Kitchens and Bread Lines
• The Depression in Rural Areas
• The Dust Bowl
Hoover Struggles with the Depression
• Hoover’s Philosophy– Andrew Mellon– “Rugged Individualism”– Direct Relief
• Boulder Dam
• Bonus Army– McArthur and Eisenhower
A New Deal Fights the Depression
• Franklin D Roosevelt– Background– 20th Amendment
• New Deal– 3 Goals
• 100 Days
• Fireside Chats and the Banks– Emergency Banking Relief Act– Glass-Stegall Act
• FDIC– Federal Securities Act
• SEC
Rural Assistance
• Agricultural Adjustment Act• Tennessee Valley Authority
Work Projects
• Civilian Conservation Corps• Federal Emergency Relief
Administration
The New Deal Comes Under Attack• Deficit Spending
• The Supreme Court Reacts– “Court Packing Bill”
• Opposition to the New Deal– American Liberty League– Charles Coughlin– Dr Francis Townsend– Huey Long
The Second New Deal Takes Hold
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Improving Labor Conditions– Wagner Act
• Social Security Act
The New Deal Affects Many Groups
• Women
• African-Americans
• Native Americans
• New Deal Coalition
Culture of the 1930s
• Motion Pictures and Radio
• Art
• Writers
Impact of the New Deal
• Banking• Social Security• The Environment