politics of the roaring 20’s. america at the start of the decade victorious in world war i treaty...
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POLITICS OF THE ROARING 20’S
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America at the Start of the Decade
• Victorious in World War I
• Treaty of Versailles defeated
• Period of isolationism
• Republican ascendancy Returning WWI soldiers
parading in Minneapolis
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1. Themes: 1920’s common themes-• Return to normalcy• US turned inward---isolationism• Jazz Age• first modern era in the U.S.• change from a rural society to an
urban.
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1920s: Cultures in Conflict
• Old vs. Young• Urban Modernists vs. Rural
Fundamentalists• Nativists vs. Foreign Born• Wets vs. Drys
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2. Cultural clashes in US Traditional America vs. Modern
America Hostility towards un-American ideas
Why? Feared communism……..Red Scare
Rise of KKKImmigration restriction/Anti-immigrant feelings–Sacco and Vanzetti
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Scopes Trial---evolution vs. creation Liberated woman vs. traditional
FlappersMargaret Sanger----Birth control
African Americans move to the citiesled to race riots in some cases
Americans violate Prohibition18th Amendment
–Volstead Act
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1920s: A New Culture• Automobile
– Economic Impact– Social Impact
• Entertainment– Radio
• NBC & CBS
– Hollywood• The Jazz Singer
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3. Revolution in styles and technologies.electricity, radio, automobile, mass
mediaFads---new dances, music, clothing
4. American heroes:Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh
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1920s: A New Culture
• 1920 Census• The Jazz Age
– Radios– Phonographs
• Consumerism– Electric Appliances– Advertising– Credit– Chain Stores
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5. Presidents during the 1920’s Conservative Republicans Supported laissez faire
Warren Harding 1921 to 1923Calvin Coolidge 1921 to 1929
6. Foreign policy during the 1920’s and early 30s- Isolationism the general trend
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The New Era of the 1920s• Consumerism flourishes because of credit,
advertising, and economic (GNP) growth• US Government fosters business growth• Entertainment grows further as big
business• Technology and middle class expand• New attitudes and uses of time emerge,
but some oppose modern changes (reactionary)
• Decade ends with economic collapse
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SECTION 1: AMERICAN POSTWAR ISSUES
• The American public was exhausted from World War I
• Public debate over the League of Nations had divided America
• An economic downturn meant many faced unemployment
• Many Americans were upset and afraid.– Of change
• Too much, too fast
– Of others
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One reaction: ISOLATIONISM
• Many Americans adopted a belief in isolationism
• Isolationism meant pulling away from involvement in world affairs
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2nd reaction:
• Fear of “reds” and radicals• Fear of immigrants
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• Red Scare, 1919 to 1921, was a time of great
upheaval…U.S. “scared out of their wits".
• "Reds” as they were called, "Anarchists” or "Outside
Foreign-Born Radical Agitators” (Communists). • Anti-red hysteria came about
after WWI and the Russian Revolution.
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
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• 6,000 immigrants the government suspected of being Communists were arrested (Palmer Raids)
and 600 were deported or expelled from the U.S. • No due process was
followed
• Not much evidence of any radical plots and civil rights of many were
violated
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
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Nativism & Anti-Radicalism
• Red Scare 1919-1921–Palmer Raids
• Sacco & Vanzetti• Quota Laws
–1921 & 1924• Labor Unions
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SACCO & VANZETTI
• The Red Scare fed nativism in America
• Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti were a shoemaker and a fish peddler
• Convicted of robbery and murder despite flimsy evidence, their execution was symbolic of discrimination against radical beliefs during the Red Scare
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Sacco & Vanzetti
• Unfair trial? (1977)
"This man [Vanzetti], although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable [guilty], because he is an enemy of our existing institutions. . . . The defendant's ideals are cognate [associated] with crime."—Judge Thayer
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Demographical Changes• Demographics:
statistics that describe a population.
Migration North African Americans moving
north at rapid pace. Why?
Jim Crow lawsNew job
opportunities in north
1860 – 93% in south
1930 – 80% in south
Struggles: Faced hatred from
whites Forced low wages
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• Movement of African-Americans from the South to Urban areas of United States
• More than 1.5 million• 1914 – 1930• Escape racism, find
better jobs, overall better life in the North
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Reemergence of KKK• Reaction to • social/cultural
changes• Birth of a Nation 1915• Financial scheme• Goals
– 100% Americanism• 4.5 million members by 1924 • Collapsed 1925-30
– Scandals, violence
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The Rebirth of the KKK• Fear of communism and immigrants
led to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan• Jews, Catholics, and immigrants
were targeted• They used intimidation and fear to
pressure employers to fire immigrants & Black workers
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The Second KKK
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‘Red Summer’ (1919)
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Continued Immigration• Post-WWI: European refugees to
America• Limited immigration in 1920s from
Europe and Asia.
• Employers turned to Mexican and Canadian immigrants to work.– As a result: barrios created
• Spanish speaking neighborhoods.
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Nativist Sentiment
• 1921 Quota– Targeted S & E. Europeans– Based on national origin in
1910• 1924 Quota
– Based on national origin in 1890
• Total immigrants reduced to 150,000 in 1929
• Sacco & Vanzetti– Murder trial & execution
reflected anti-immigrant feeling
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CONGRESS LIMITS IMMIGRATION
• Congress, in response to nativist pressure, decided to limit immigration from southern and eastern Europe
• The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 set up a quota system to control and restrict immigration
America changed its formally permissive immigration policy
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•The U.S. Government began to restrict certain “undesirable” immigrants from entering the
U.S.•Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act of
1921, in which newcomers from Europe were restricted at any year to a quota, which was set
at 3% of the people of their nationality who lived in the U.S. in 1910.
• Immigration Act of 1924, the quota down to 2% and the origins base was shifted to that of 1890, when few southeastern Europeans lived
in America.
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Americans on the Move
Urbanization still accelerating.More Americans
lived in cities than in rural areas
1920:New York 5 millionChicago 3 million
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Urban-Rural Split• 1920: ↑ 50% Americans
live in “cities”• Rural Americans felt
threatened– Conservative backlash– Fundamentalism– Rejection of evolution– Scopes Trial (1925)
• William Jennings Bryan (Christian Fundamentalist) prosecutes Scopes
• Scopes convicted but Fundamentalists ridiculed
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URBAN VS. RURAL Farms started to struggle
post-WWI. 6 million moved to urban
areas
Urban life was considered a world of anonymous crowds, strangers, moneymakers, and pleasure seekers.
Rural life was considered to be safe, with close personal ties, hard work and morals.
Suburban boom: trolleys, street cars and cars
Cities were impersonal
Farms were innocent
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SECTION 1: AMERICAN POSTWAR ISSUES
• An economic downturn meant many faced unemployment
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Aftermath of World War I
STRIKES!
Post war demand for consumer goods
Job marketconstricts
Soldiers returning home
Salaries stagnant↑ demand causes
inflation
Lay-offs
Seattle General Strike; Boston Police Strike
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A TIME OF LABOR UNREST
• Strikes were outlawed during WWI, however in 1919 there were more than 3,000 strikes involving 4 million workers
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BOSTON POLICE STRIKE
• Boston police had not received a raise in years and were denied the right to unionize
• The National Guard was called
• New cops were hired
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Boston Police Strike
• Entire police department goes on strike and are fired and replaced by new policemen.
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STEEL MILL STRIKE• In September of 1919, the U.S. Steel
Corporation refused to meet with union representatives
• In response, over 300,000 workers struck• Scabs were hired while strikers were
beaten by police and federal troops• The strike was settled in 1920 with an 8-
hour day but no union
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Steel Mill Strike
• Violent strike where the government broke up the steel workers union
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Coal Miners Strike
• John L. Lewis led a successful strike of the nation’s coal miners and becomes a powerful labor leader.
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COAL MINERS’ STRIKE
• In 1919, United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis called a Strike on November 1
• Lewis met with an arbitrator appointed by President Wilson
• Lewis won a 27% pay raise and was hailed a hero
Lewis
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1920s: TOUGH TIMES FOR UNIONS
• The 1920s hurt the labor movement
• Union membership dropped from 5 million to 3.5 million
• Why? African Americans were excluded from membership and immigrants were willing to work in poor conditions
Ford Foundry workers in 1926; only 1% of black workers were in
Unions at the time
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SECTION 2: THE HARDING PRESIDENCY
• Warren G. Harding’s modest successes include the Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war as a means of national policy (signed by 15 nations, but difficult to enforce), and the Dawes Plan which solved the problem of post-war debt by providing loans to Germany to pay France/Britain who then paid the U.S.
Harding 1920-1924
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Warren Harding• Republican Senator
from Ohio. (29th)• Famous “...return to
normalcy…” speech.• Ohio gang – led to
many scandals in the Harding presidency
• Dies in office in 1923
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The Harding Presidency• The “Ohio Gang” • “Normalcy”• Andrew Mellon & laissez-faire
– “trickle-down” economics• Very pro-business • The Scandals
– AG Daugherty & influence peddling
– Charles Forbes & Vets Bureau theft
– The Teapot Dome Scandal• Albert Fall: Sec. of the Interior
Evaluation: One of the worst presidents
Warren HardingJames Cox
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Pres. Warren G. Harding-1920
Vice-President: Calvin CoolidgeGone were the days of Wilson and Idealism!Harding promised:
Lower Taxes Higher Tariffs Restrictions on immigration Aid to farmers
“A return to
NORMALCY”
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Harding appointed some
very qualified people to
his administration.
However, he also
appointed several less
qualified
people from his home state
of Ohio who
eventually engaged in a host of
corrupt activities for personal gain.
“OHIO GANG”
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•Government supports business
•Hands-off policy in other matters
The Business of America1
SECTION
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Coolidge Takes Over
• Vice-President Calvin Coolidge
1SECTION
• Tries to clean up scandals, elected president in his own right (1924)
• Laissez faire—business unregulated by government benefits the nation
• Under “laissez faire”, U.S. business prospers
• Refuses to help farmers; doesn’t believe in government help for individuals
The Business of America
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SCANDAL HITS HARDING
• The president’s main problem was that he didn’t understand many of the issues
• Several of Harding’s appointee’s were caught illegally selling government supplies to private companies
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TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
• The worst case of corruption was the Teapot Dome Scandal
• The government set aside oil-rich public land in Teapot, WY
• Secretary of Interior Albert Fall secretly leased the land to two oil companies
• Fall received $400,000 from the oil companies and a felony conviction from the courts
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Teapot Dome Scandal
• Teapot Dome, Wyoming had government owned oil fields
• Secretary of Interior Albert Fall leased the land to oil executives who had bribed him.
• Fall became 1st cabinet officer to go to jail.
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The 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.
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• In 1912 President William H. Taftdecided that the government owned the land and its’ oil reserves should be set aside for the use of the United States Navy.
• On 4th June, 1920, Congress passed a bill that stated that the Secretary of the Navy would have the power "to conserve, develop, use and operate the same in his discretion, directly or by contract, lease, or otherwise, and to use, store, exchange, or sell the oil and gas products thereof, and those from all royalty oil from lands in the naval reserves, for the benefit of the United States."
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• In March of 1921, President Warren Harding appointed Albert Fall as Secretary of the Interior.
Pres. Warren Harding Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall
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Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall
Harry Sinclair
(Mammoth Oil Corp.)
Edward L. Doheny (Pan-American Petroleum)
Yo, Albert buddy! How about letting Edward
and I drill for oil in Elk Hills and Teapot
Dome!
But that’s Naval
property! You can’t drill
there!
Maybe $100,000 would help you change
your mind!
Why didn’t you say so, Ed?
You’ve got a deal!
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• Later that year Fall decided that two of his friends, Harry F. Sinclair (Mammoth Oil Corporation) and Edward L. Doheny (Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company), should be allowed to lease part of these Naval Reserves. There was NO evidence that Harding was involved in any way.
• In 1923, Harding died of a heart attack. Vice-President Calvin Coolidge took over.
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• In 1927, Fall was found guilty of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Doheny. He was forced to resign from office and spent one year in jail. Fall was the first cabinet member to be convicted of a crime while in office.
• The land was naval property, and should not have been leased to private oil companies.
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SECTION 3: THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
• The new president, Calvin Coolidge, fit the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well
• His famous quote: “The chief business of the American people is business . . .the man who builds a factory builds a temple – the man who works there worships there”
President Calvin Coolidge 1924-1928
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Calvin Coolidge• “Silent Cal” – 30th• Takes over Presidency
when Harding dies.• Wins reelection in 1924
but does not run for reelection in 1928.
• “The business of America is business!!”
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Pres. Calvin CoolidgeHarding’s death in 1923 brought Coolidge to the presidency.In 1924, Americans voted to
Coolidge’s business policy was laissez faire :
Between 1921and 1929 the output of industry nearly Doubled
“Keep cool with Coolidge”
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“Silent Cal”The business of America is….BUSINESS!!!!
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• The new president, Calvin Coolidge, fit the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well
• His famous quote: “The chief business of the American people is business . . .the man who builds a factory builds a temple – the man who works there worships there”
President Calvin Coolidge 1924-1928
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Coolidge• Housecleaning
– kept on Mellon• Pro-business
philosophy continues• The election of 1924:
conservatism triumphant
• Prosperity the key to Coolidge victory
Warren HardingJames Cox Robert LaFollette
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• President Coolidge is an isolationist:- U.S. stays out of other nations’ affairs except for self-defense
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• Helps set up the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928):- 15 nations agree not to make war on each other, only self-defense
continued Coolidge Takes Over
The Business of America
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AMERICAN BUSINESS FLOURISHES
• Both Coolidge and his Republican successor Herbert Hoover, favored governmental policies that kept taxes down and business profits up
• Tariffs were high which helped American manufacturers
• Government interference in business was minimal
• Wages were increasing
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The Economy & Big Business
• Decline, 1920–21 (drop in war production)• Electricity spurs recovery and growth
(1922–29) with new goods for factory and for home
• Installment plans stimulate consumption• Consolidation continues; oligopolies control
production, marketing, distribution, finance• US Steel and General Electric dominate
their respective industries
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Causes of Economic Growth: Industrialization & Consumerism
- Increased demand for American products began in WWI, and helped American industry grow - Factories began to produce goods more efficiently through assembly line practices
- As the Americans became more prosperous, a culture of consumerism grew
- For the first time in history, middle-class Americans could purchase expensive consumer goods like cars and home appliances
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Causes of Economic Growth: Government Deregulation
- Attempts at government intrusion into private business were consistently blocked in favor of a “laissez-faire” economic policy
- Corporations were encouraged to grow without restriction, often forming trusts and eliminating competition
- Both the Harding and Coolidge administrations rolled back income taxes on the wealthy and created tariffs blocking foreign goods from competing with American products
- In the later part of the decade "buying on margin" entered the American vocabulary, as more and more Americans over-extended themselves to speculate on the soaring stock market and expanding credit
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AMERICAN STANDARD OF LIVING SOARS
• The years 1920-1929 were prosperous ones for the U.S.
• Americans owned 40% of the world’s wealth
• The average annual income rose 35% during the 1920s ($522 to $705)
• Discretionary income increased
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The Second Industrial Revolution U.S. develops the highest standard of living
in the world The twenties and the second revolution
electricity replaces steam Henry Ford’s modern assembly line introduced
Rise of the airline industry Modern appliances and conveniences begin
to change American society
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Boom Industries
• Automobiles• New industries
– Aviation– Chemicals– Radio and movies
• Federal Communication Commission ‒ 1934
• Hollywood
The Economy That Roared
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Corporate Consolidation
• Period of mergers• Oligopoly
– Ford, General Motors, Chrysler– Including financial institutions
The Economy That Roared
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Changing Values and “The American Dream”
- More so in the 1920s than ever before, Americans came to believe that they had a “right to prosperity”
- Whereas older generations valued saving money and living simply, during this period, advertising, leftover “war effort” sentiments, and the availability of consumer goods proliferated the idea that status and American identity was related to spending money
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Technology Changes American Life
• Average annual income per person rises 35 %
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• Americans have more money to buy goods,spend on leisure
• Using assembly lines, Henry Ford makes cars most people can afford
• Assembly line—product moves along conveyor belt across the factory
The Business of America
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• Installment buying—repay borrowed amount in small monthly
payments• National advertising begins, promotes
new products
• Cheap fuel powers new inventions that make life easier
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The Business of America
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I. Economic Triumphs
A. Rising Wages for American Workers
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Technology
• Improved technology– Many consumer goods
(appliances; radios…)– Charles Lindberg crosses
Atlantic non-stop (1927)
• Cars – Model T $290 in 1920– “auto-touring”– growth of suburbs
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THE IMPACT OF THE AUTO
• The auto was the backbone of the American economy from 1920 through the 1970s
• It also profoundly altered the American landscape and society
The Ford Model T was the first car in America. It came only in black and sold for $290. Over 15 million were
sold by 1927.
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IMPACT OF THE AUTO
Among the many changes were:
• Paved roads, traffic lights• Motels, billboards• Home design• Gas stations, repair shops• Shopping centers • Freedom for rural families• Independence for women
and young people• Cities like Detroit, Flint,
Akron grew • By 1920 80% of world’s
vehicles in U.S.
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B. New Goods for the “Average” American
1. Henry Ford’s Model T
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Henry Ford
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The Automobile Industry
Auto makers stimulate sales through model changes, advertising
Auto industry fostered the growth of other businesses
Autos encourage movement and more individual freedom.
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The Road to Suburbia
• Car culture– Compared to earlier streetcar suburbs
• Often exclusively white• State highway systems• Shopping centers
Cities and Suburbs
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ELECTRICAL CONVENIENCES
• While gasoline powered much of the economic boom of the 1920s, the use of electricity also transformed the nation
Electric refrigerators, stoves, irons, toasters, vacuums, washing machines and sewing
machines were all new
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Electrical Conveniences
• New technologies led to electrical conveniences during the 1920s
• Cars, airplanes, radios, telephones were all innovative technologies of the time
• Women used new electric household appliances like refrigerators, vacuum cleaners & electric stoves
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MODERN ADVERTISING EMERGES
• Ad agencies no longer sought to merely “inform” the public about their products
• They hired psychologists to study how best to appeal to Americans’ desire for youthfulness, beauty, health and wealth
• “Say it with Flowers” slogan actually doubled sales between 1912-1924
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Advertising the Consumer Society
• Created new demand• Consumption replaced thrift• Installment purchases
– Debt rose faster than incomes
Mass Culture
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Mass Consumption
• Advertising– Madison Ave.– Installment buying – Buying on credit
• A “Bull” Market– Led to speculation– Buying on margin
• Purchasing stock with borrowed money
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C. New Temptations to Buy
1. Easy Credit and
Buying “on Margin”
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The Advertising Industry• The growth of business produced the
advertising industry• Businesses offered the installment plan,
which allowed consumers to use credit to purchase expensive items a little at a time
• America became a consumer society for the first time (status was measure by how many “things” you owned
• However, people were going into debt and saving less money
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2. The Birth of Modern Advertising
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AIRLINE TRANSPORT BECOMES COMMON
• The airline industry began as a mail carrying service and quickly “took off”
• By 1927, Pan American Airways was making the transatlantic passenger flights
When commercial flights began, all flight attendants
were female and white
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A SUPERFICIAL PROSPERITY
• Many during the 1920s believed the prosperity would go on forever
• Wages, production, GNP, and the stock market all rose significantly
• But. . . .
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PROBLEMS ON THE HORIZON?
• Businesses expanded recklessly
• Iron & railroad industries faded
• Farms nationwide suffered losses due to overproduction
• Too much was bought on credit (installment plans) including stocks
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Economic Weaknesses• Railroads poorly managed• Coal displaced by petroleum• Farmers face decline in exports,
prices• Growing disparity between income
of laborers, middle-class managers• Middle class speculates with idle
money
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Trickle Down EconomicsSupply Side Economics
GovernmentTAX BREAKS Business
$$$
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Economic Problems During the 1920’s
Coal vs OilSmall to middle sized companies consolidated
Unions sufferedAgricultural overproduction
Over speculation on land/stocks