Transcript Slide 1 - Humble ISD

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• The 1920’s (sometimes known as “The
Roaring Twenties”) was a time of
baseball, jazz, dancing, daring stunts,
outrageous fashions, and extravagant
spending. It was also a time of relative
economic prosperity for the U.S. Do
you think wild behavior usually goes
along with riches? Back up your
argument with a few examples, either of
individuals, of nations, or of other
periods in U.S. History.
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• Place the following Presidents in order
– Roosevelt
– Harding
– Taft
– Wilson
– McKinley
EXTRA CREDIT – STATE OF THE
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• The 18th Amendment, ratified by the
states in 1919, made alcohol illegal
throughout the country. The
Prohibition era changed the U.S.
dramatically. (The 18th amendment was
later repealed by the 21st amendment in
1933.) What do you think the U.S.
would be like if a new Prohibition
amendment passed this year? List a
few of the major changes that you think
would occur.
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E – Economic
Downturn
• No jobs
available
after World
War I
• War time factories closed
• Job competition causes racial
tensions
T – Teapot Dome Scandal
• Warren G. Harding: worst president of
all time
• Appointments were corrupt; never
dismissed them and looked like he
supported them
• Attorney General allowed political
allies to break the law; Friend sold
public offices for cash
• Secretary of the Interior leased U.S.
Navy petroleum reserves for a bribe;
Harding was linked w/the scandal –
turned public against him
Labor Unrest (add to letter “S”)
• 1919: Over 3,600 strikes were held
protesting wage cuts and long hours
w/o overtime pay
• Because most strikes led to violent
attacks by the police, many workers
turned away from unions
• Because of violence, many will view
unions with unrest
S - Socialism
• New immigrants coming from
Eastern Europe and Russia
• Americans feel that they will try to
overthrow the government b/c
that’s what they did in Russia
(Russian Revolution)
• Red Scare, Anti-Communist
hysteria
W – Wrongful Arrests
• “Palmer Raids” arrest 10,000
suspected communists without
formal charges (highly illegal)
• Fueled by Anti-Communist
hysteria
• Anti-Immigration Laws set limits
on annual immigration from
Southern & Eastern Europe
T – Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti
• Example of Red Scare hysteria
• 2 Italians arrested for murder (April,
1920: robbery resulted in the death of
a paymaster and a guard at a factory)
• Openly anarchists and protested the
Palmer Raids
• Prosecution lacked sound evidence
but, neither Sacco nor Vanzetti had a
solid alibi and were carrying guns at
the time of their arrest
• After 6 years of appeals they were
sentenced to death by electric chair
N – New KKK
• Lynching
• Nativists are the
only “true”
Americans
• March on Washington, D.C. (1925) –
The “Invisible Empire” attracted more
than 4 million members at its height in
1924.
• Conducted “swift justice”
Violence
Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern
breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
I - Improvement
• Marcus Garvey
• Black pride & separatism
– Taught that African civilization predated European
civilization and that God was black
– Promoted a separatist vision of blacks returning
to Africa to regain the continent they had lost to
European imperialists
• “1st man on a mass scale to give millions of
Negroes a sense of dignity & destiny”- MLK
• Distanced himself from other black activists
b/c of his extreme racial separatist views
• Movement fails after a few years
E - Evolution
• Scopes “Monkey” Trial
• 1925: Tennessee passes law stating that
no state-funded school can teach
evolution
• Evolution (Clarence Darrow) vs.
Creationism (William Jennings Bryan)
• Scopes himself never testified, as there
was never a legal issue as to whether he
had taught evolution.
• Scopes was found guilty and ordered to
pay a $100 fine. Bryan offered to pay it.
• Consumerism & the
Installment Plan (Credit)
• Advertising: clothing, bottled
water, candy and perms
• Changing Role of Women:
Flappers, The Bob haircut,
and short skirts
Jazz Age
• Main Factors contributing to
the development of the Harlem
Renaissance
– Urban Migration (“Great
Migration”)
– Rise of radical African-American
intellectuals
• Langston Hughes (poet)
• Zora Neale Hurston (writer)
• Jazz: rooted from New Orleans
mix of African, French, Spanish
and English peoples
– It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Don’t
Got That Swing: Duke Ellington &
Louis Armstrong “Satchmo”
Prohibition
• 18th Amendment: outlawed
the sale, manufacture, and
transportation of alcohol
• Speakeasies, Bootleggers,
Flasks & Moonshine
• More…
– Wine was supplied to
churches
– 10 million “medicinal”
prescriptions per year
recommended drinking 5
gallons of beer per month
Lots more Free Time
Biggest mistake in MLB
History: Babe Ruth sold to NY
Yankees for $125,000 in 1920
Rudolph Valentino & the growth of “Hollywoodland”