the roaring 20’s
DESCRIPTION
The Roaring 20’s. By Bonnie Fisher, Brandon Cotner and Halley Campbell. Thesis. To show and explain the impact the 1920’s had on American history. Return to Normalcy. The Harding Administration Warren Harding won the 1920 election by a landside by promising a return to normalacy . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Roaring 20’s
By Bonnie Fisher, Brandon Cotner and Halley Campbell
![Page 2: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Thesis
To show and explain the impact the 1920’s had on American history.
![Page 3: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Return to Normalcy
The Harding Administration› Warren Harding won the 1920 election by a
landside by promising a return to normalacy.› Got congress to lower taxes on businesses
and he wealthy› Scandals
Teapot Dome The Coolidge Administration
› Honesty and integrity› Public Trust
![Page 4: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Foreign Policy
International Power› Isolationism› Disarmament
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917› Communism› Diplomatic recognition
![Page 5: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The Red Scare
Anarchists› foreign born , “Reds”
May 1920› Nicola Sacco› Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Limiting Immigration › New limitations› Competition for jobs
![Page 6: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Prohibition
The Eighteenth Amendment› Prohibition
The Experiment Fails› Bootleggers› Speakeasies
The Growth of Organized Crime› $$$› February 1933
![Page 7: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Changing Lives of Women
Nineteenth Amendment› Political Positions
A New Attitude› Flappers
![Page 8: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
A New Mass Culture
Impact of the Automobile› New Businesses
The Radio› First Radio Station
The Movies
![Page 9: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Social Conflict
The Scopes Trial› Evolution
Racial Conflict› Race Riots› KKK
![Page 10: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Fads and Heroes
Heroes of the New Age› “Ev’ry morning, ev’ry enening, ain’t we
got fun?” › Dance
Lindy Hop Charleston Black Bottom The Breakaway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHt
my4j0&feature=related
![Page 11: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
An American Sound
Jazz Age› New Orleans
Louis Armstrong› Radio› http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqY
MTpXHc
![Page 12: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Literature of the 1920’s
Social Critics› F. Scott Fitzgerald› Sinclair Lewis
The Harlem Renaissance› Langston Hughes
![Page 13: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Industrial Growth
Industrial Growth› Installment buying
Attracting Consumers› Women
![Page 14: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
A Booming Stock Market
Bull Market› A period of rising stock prices
Buying on Margin› Borrowing money in order to buy stocks
![Page 15: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Signs of Trouble
Farmers› No participation
Workers› Unemployment› Assembly line
![Page 16: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Election of 1928
Republicans› Herbert Hoover
Democrats› Alfred E. Smith
![Page 17: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Works Cited Davidson, James W. America Historyof
Our Nation. Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007
"Herbert Hoover." Wikipedia. 15 May 2009.
Lorance, Loretta L. "Part 3." Part 3. 17 May 2003.
Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia. 14 May 2009 <en.wikipedia.org/langston hughes>.
![Page 18: The Roaring 20’s](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062323/5681606e550346895dcf9518/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The End
Any Questions?