Day 123: American Life in the Roaring 20sBaltimore Polytechnic Institute

March 13, 2013A/A.P. U.S. History

Mr. Green

Students will be able to analyze to what extent technological innovations improved the lives of the American people.

Objective

Objectives: Students will:Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and

normalcy following World War I.Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as

immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade.

Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial.

AP FocusConcerned about the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, the United

States, Britain, and other nations send troops to participate in the Russian Civil War in the hope of toppling Lenin’s communist government. Domestically, a systematic effort to suppress Bolsheviks, or reds, is launched. A political cartoon in The American Pageant (13th ed., p. 721/14th ed., p. 771) makes it abundantly clear that leftists have no place in American life.

Intolerance grows in the nation after World War I. A new and more virulent nativist strain emerges in the reborn Ku Klux Klan, which has expanded its influence across the nation.

To shrink immigration from certain areas of the world, a quota system is put in place. That and the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduce eastern and southern European immigration.

American Life in the Roaring 20s

CHAPTER THEMESA disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism, and the pleasures of prosperity.New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety, as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.

Chapter Focus

5QQ ID Check-Numbers 1-30 on FridayUnit 8-1920s/1930 Test on Friday March 22IDs due on March 22

Announcements

Identify the reasons the KKK expanded in membership during the 1920’s.

Identify reasons for the Red Scare of 1919-1920.

Identify outcomes of increased immigration during the 1910s.

Warm-up

Increases in crimeSpeakeasiesOrganized crimeLindbergh baby

Prohibition

Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925John T. Scopes taught evolution, violating Tennessee state lawClarence Darrow-represented ScopesWilliam Jennings Bryan-represented the Bible

Challenged the literal interpretation of the Bible

Fundamentalism v. Darwin

Could American manufacturers find the mass markets for the goods they had developed?

Advertisingmake Americans unhappy with their meager possessions.

The Man Nobody Knows-Bruce BartonSportsBoxingCars-Assembly line/Fordism/Scientific

ManagementBuying on Credit

vulnerable to disruptions of credit

Culture between the wars

Gasoline ageAirplanesRadioMovies

nickelodeonspropaganda

Culture Between the Wars

1920-Most Americans living in urban areasContraceptives

Margaret SangerFundamentalists to the Modernists“Flappers”Dr. Sigmund FreudMarcus Garvey-UNIAHarlem Renaissance

“New Negro”

The Dynamic Decade

Florida real estate100’s of banks failed annuallyBuying on marginNational debt increasedAndrew Mellon

rich invested in tax-exempt securities instead of factorieslowered taxes-shift to middle-income groupsdecreased debtindirectly encourage bull market

Wall Street’s Big Bull Market

Read Chapter 32

Homework