1920's discussion
1. Roaring 20's
- Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
- Many people moved to the cities
- Electricity in homes
- Largest cities
- New York
- Chicago
- 18th amendment
- banning of manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol
- supporters were mostly from the south and the west, Catholics
- nonsupporters were from the northeast
- Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- Prescriptions and sacremental wine orders sky rocketed
- Flagpole sitting
- a fad (like planking, "why")
- Fashion-
- Oxford bags-baggy pants (men)
- Hats (men and women)
- Looser clothing-no corsets (women)
- Fur coats (both)
- Suits, short pants (men)
- Small ties, short (men)
- Nickers (kids)
- Hollywood
- Greta Garbo
- Clara Bo
- Charlie Chaplin
- Walt Disney (1928)
- Harry Houdini
- Sports
- Babe Ruth
- Jack Dempsey (boxer)
- African American music and art
- 2. A "return to normalcy"
- President Harding
- staying out of European conflicts
- focus on American issues first
- return to isolationism
3. Red Scare
- The fear of becoming a communist government
- 1919-1920
- In response-stopped immigration
- stopped immigration
- Palmer raids-deported anyone who looked to be communists
4. Buying on credit
- allowed more people to afford cars, houses, etc
5. Planes and automobiles
- Cars
- Made affordable to general public
- Became widely popular in the 1920's
- Car changed the world the most, parking lots, driveways
- Suburb of cities, able to travel back and forth
- Cars can travel to many places quicker
- Henry Ford-first to mass produce automobiles
- Model T
- Planes
- Charles Lindbergh
- first to fly nonstop across atlantic ocean
- Entertainment
- fast transpotation
6. Prohibition
- Prohibition Failure
- People despised it. Saw it as a violation of their rights
- The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1500 people to supervise the country
- Organized crime became commonplace
- Speakeasies-illegal bars
- Was repealed by 21 amendment in 1933
7. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
- Republicans overruled
- Republican philosophy
- Trickle-down theory
- By helping the rich, in turn are helping the poor
- Help business owners, creates jobs for the poor
- Laissez-faire
- Goverment stays out of business affairs
- Let business handle their own problems
- Rugged individualism
- people need to help themselves & step up, stop being lazy
Misc. Notes
- Tennessee passed the first law to ban the teaching of evolution in 1925
- John Scopes was the first to defy it and was arrested and put into the Scopes-Monkey Trial
- Scopes was found guilty and fined $100
Comments