Transcript Developments After The War

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Mass Production
 When WWI ended, factories started
producing more to satisfy growing
consumer demands.
 1913 – Henry Ford introduced the
Model T Ford.
 Mass production changed the
amount of skill needed by individuals
to manufacture a product.
 Workers trained in one particular
skill.
Mass Production
 By 1924, Ford’s Model T sold for under
$300.
 Americans were earning about $1,300
annually.
 Ford offered $5 per day to assembly
workers.
 Rubber, steel, glass, oil grew
 This economic boom, or growth period,
became known as the Roaring Twenties.
 Jazz became popular with the new
technology of radios.
The Harlem Renaissance
 Langston Hughes – African American
writer whose works flourished during
the Harlem Renaissance – a
celebration of African American
music, poetry, prose, theater, & art.
 Louis Armstrong & Dizzy Gillespie –
musicians
 New dances: the Charleston, Lindy
Hop
The 1920s
 Growth of Hollywood
 Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie
Chaplin, & Gloria Swanson
 1927 – The Jazz Singer – first fulllength feature motion picture with
sound
 The Jazz Age – movies brought the
sights & sounds of jazz.
 Composer – Irving Berlin
(Broadway musicals)
The Red Scare
 1917 - beginning of Russian Revolution
 Citizens revolted against govt.
 The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took
over the govt.
 Lenin studied the ideas of Karl Marx’s
theories on communism.
 In America, many feared anarchists,
those who oppose the rule of the state.
 Fear of communism & anarchy led to a
widespread Red Scare.
The Red Scare
 Between 1919 & 1920, the federal govt.
raided the homes & businesses of
suspected communists (Reds) &
anarchists.
 Labor leaders called for restrictions on
immigration.
 National Origins Act of 1924 – limited
immigration from southern & eastern
Europe.