•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

Kerensky

Lenin

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

Race Riots

Race Riots

Harlem RenaissanceThat’s up to you

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

Flappers and RakesNot as widespreadSome did not rebelWomen still only menial jobs

Stop working after marriageExcept African Americans

Impact of TechnologyCars for groceriesInstallment payment plans

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

Charlie Chaplin

Charles Lindbergh

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

Election of 1928Herbert Hoover vs. Al SmithHoover-Quaker, sensible, sounded better on radio

Smith-Catholic, opposed prohibition, came from an immigrant Family

Hoover wins