•Post war adjustments
•Decreased Production•War Goods•Food Products•Returning Veterans•Unemployed•Forced Women and minorities out•Factories move south
Russian Revolution and the Red ScareKerensky vs. Lenin
Bolsheviks?Socialist and communist U.S.S.R.
Civil WarReds win
Strikes and UnrestFear of revoltViolent attacks against unions
Gary Indiana Steel Workers StrikeForcibly put down 18 dead 100’s woundedThe Palmer Raids
Attorney General1,000’s wrongfully jailed
Renewed Isolationism and Nativism1921 Limits on immigration
Europe needed to face its problems alone
Social and Political DevelopmentsThe women’s movement fades
Did not flock to the pollsExcluded from holding officeDid get polling places out of saloons
Money given to support prenatal and infant care
1st steps
African Americans and the Great MigrationJobs in the North from World War IConditions in the South
LynchingsLow paying jobsNorth was not a promised landMaids-better paid still living in poverty
Hostility from white workers
Race RiotsEast St. LouisWashington D.C.Chicago
July 27, 1919Segregated Beaches
African American youth drifts into a white beach is hit by a stone and drowns
African Americans retaliate40 dead 100’s injured
The Garvey MovementMarcus GarveyRacial PrideReturn to Motherland Africa
Oversold stock on his cruise ship
Decade of Republican DominanceImproved EconomyWarren G. Harding
Scandal ridden AdministrationAppointees were corruptTea pot dome
Sold oil land for personal gainCalvin Coolidge takes over
“Business is America’s Business”Herbert Hoover next President
New Manners, New MoralsYouth Culture
CollegeReturning VetsNight Clubs-Jazz Bands, Records
Dance MarathonsAfrican American Dances-street corners-pop culture
Breaking Social Conventions in the Jazz AgeDated without chaperonesUsed SlangBodies touched while dancingRevealing clothingMake upCars
Flappers and RakesNot as widespreadSome did not rebelWomen still only menial jobs
Stop working after marriageExcept African Americans
Creating a Shared CultureShorter work days made more free time
RadioPittsburgh’s KDKA 1st commercial news, sports, church
NBCMovies
MGM, Warner BrosTalkies
1927 The Jazz Singer
The Rise of SuperstarsMovie Stars
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford
Sports HeroesBabe Ruth, Jack DempseyCharles LindberghNonstop flight from New York to Paris
New Products and IdeasChain StoresShopping CentersFast Food
A & W AdvertisingKleenex-tissuesAffordable AutomobilesTravel morePublic roads, beaches, and parks
Stemming the Tides of ChangeMoral controls
Prohibition 1919 18th AmendmentBootlegging and speak easiesOrganized crimeMorality at the MoviesControl on beliefs
FundamentalismScopes trial 1923-1924
Dayton Tennessee Darrow vs. BryanFined but thrown out
KKK Rides AgainAgainst EveryoneViolent nature brought KKK downDavid Stephenson of IndianaFailed to free him so he turned state’s evidence