The Roaring Twenties

Jessica Rosario The Roaring Twenties

A Booming Economy: The 1920sIncome increasesPeople purchase more goodsCompanies earn higher profitsCompanies expand and hire more peopleBoom Cycle

Ex.) Model-T 1909 - $850 1916 - $360 1924 - $290 The efficiency of the assembly line helped to decrease car prices.

* Employment and the standard of living increased.* As World War I ended, technology focused on consumer goods. Ex) radios, washing machines, telephones, and cars* An increase in wages caused an increase in buying power.

1925 RCA Radiola Super VIII Postwar Developments At HomeThe years after the War to End ALL Wars are characterized by:social unrest and violence economic problems labor unrest fear of immigrantsfear of communism racial tensions.rising middle classmore leisure timeautos and assembly linesProhibition and gangstersconflict between a loose society and the moral societyThe Roaring TwentiesIn 1919 - more than 3,600 strikesA general strike in Seattle, Washington, nearly paralyzed the city, and U.S. Marines were sent in to restore order. The strike failed.The greatest single labor action, also ended in failure, was the Great Steel Strike in January 1920. It involved 350,000 steelworkers in several Midwestern states.FAILURESSteel mill owners, political leaders, and newspapers accused the strikers of being linked with radicals and turned against the workers. Strikers were called radicals and violent, and the business leaders, political leaders and newspapers turned against the workers, leading to the decline in the union movement.The Palmer Raids and other Anti-Communist MeasuresHysteria grows when a series of bombings occurred in the spring of 1919.The Post Office intercepted several packages addressed to leading politicians and businessmen, that were set to explode when opened.One bomb exploded outside the home of the attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer sets up an anti-radical division of the Justice Department, appoints J. Edgar Hoover to direct what becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Ku Klux Klan1920 The Klan hires 2 sales agents to help expand their power base beyond the south. They directed their hatred against anyone who was not white and Protestant.They now targeted Catholics, Jews, Asians, and immigrants as well as African Americans.1925 The Klan had as many as 5 million members. They elect five senators and four state governors -in northern not just southern states.1925 a Klan leader was convicted of murder and membership began to drop as the increasing violence weakened the Klans appeal.

Elk Hills,California

1912U.S. NAVYO I L

Teapot Dome,WyomingProperty of U.S. NAVY

The oil reserves of Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California shall be for US Naval use only.1912

President William H. Taft10Objective: To examine the Teapot Dome Scandal and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.Do Now: What was the Ohio Gang, and what problems did Charles Forbes cause for President Harding? The Ohio Gang were President Hardings friends, whom he appointed to his Cabinet.Charles Forbes, appointed by Harding as the head of the Veterans Bureau, stole millions of dollars from the bureau.I can take care of my enemies all right, but my friends keep me walking the floors at night. - President Warren HardingThe Teapot Dome Scandal In the early part of the 20th century large oil reserves were discovered in Elk Hills, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming.

Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center on the Teapot Dome Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3 near Midwest, Wyoming. In March of 1921, President Warren Harding appointed Albert Fall as Secretary of the Interior.

Pres. Warren Harding

Secretary of the Interior Albert FallObjective: To examine the Scopes Trial, the election of 1928, and the intolerance of the 1920s.

John Scopes, a Tennessee teacher, taught his students about Charles Darwins theory of evolution in violation of state law.The Scopes TrialJohn Scopes

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis on a solo flight across the Atlantic from Long Island (Roosevelt Field) to France.Lucky Lindy

1925 Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, D.C.