2. Week 7 Virtual Classroom
Business Conservatism
at Home and Abroad
Mini-Lecture 1: Conservatism and
Corruption in Political Life; The Business of
America Is Business; Capital and Statecraft;
Immigration Restrictions
14. Week 7 Virtual Classroom
The New Economy
Mini-Lecture 2: Shifts in Manufacturing;
Economic Growth and Social Inequality;
Agriculture in Crisis; Organized Labor in
Decline
24. Week 7 Virtual Classroom
The Expansion of
American Consumer Culture
Mini-Lecture 3: Transformations in Daily
Life; Autos for the Masses; The Creation of
Customers
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The Expansion of
American Consumer Culture
Mini-Lecture 5: Women as Workers and
Consumers; African American Life in the
1920s and the Harlem Renaissance
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The Culture Wars of the 1920s
Mini-Lecture 6: The Urban-Rural Divide;
Christian Fundamentalism and the Scopes
Trial; An Upsurge of Racism and Nativism
60. Ku Klux Klan- A Secret History [4/9]
YouTube Playlist
61. Inherit the Wind Scene, Creationism vs. Evolution
(Removed From YouTube)
Editor's Notes
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Context of “America in the Jazz Age” – Unequal Wealth Distribution
Door Opens Abroad and Closes at Home
1920 Warren Harding Elected President
Harding’s Call for a “Return to Normalcy”
Scandals, Corruption and Death of Harding (1923)
Teapot Dome Scandal – Sec of Interior Albert Fall Taking Kickbacks for Discounted Leases of Federal Lands
VP Coolidge becomes President and Tone, Not Substance, Changes…
Illustration of “The National Gesture”
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Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon Pushes Through Tax Cut for Highest Income Bracket and Reduction of Inheritance Tax
Secretary of Commerce Hoover’s “Modest Activism” and Public Works
International Context - American, British and German Industrial Production (1870-1938)
1924 Presidental Election and the 3rd Party Candidacy of Senator Robert LaFollette. Democratic Party Divided, Republican Coolidge Wins!
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Assissting American Business Overseas
Charles Evans Hughes – “Pax Americana”
Dawes Plan to Help Germany
Kellog-Briand Pact (1928) – Outlawing War
Low Tariffs, Easy Access to Raw Materials, Open Door
Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Examples in Latin America – Sandino in Nicaragua)
“Big Stick Diplomacy” -- Map of US Military Interventions in Latin America, 1895 -1934
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Opening Doors Abroad and Closing Doors at Home
1920s Immigration Restrictions Aimed at Keeping Southern European and Asian Immigrants out of the Country
Ex. 1922 Supreme Court Ruled that Immigrants of Japanese Ancestry Could Not Become Citizens
Protecting “Anglo-Saxon” Stock
Cartoon of “Goodwill” in Nicaragua; Picture of the “The Fittest Family” by the American Eugenics Society
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Context of “America in the Jazz Age” – Unequal Wealth Distribution
Door Opens Abroad and Closes at Home
Trends to Smaller Families, Urbanization, Consumer Culture
1920s Growth of Service Industry Over Manufacturing
Corporate Profits Doubled, Workers’ Salaries Grew Modesty
Life Expectancy Went From 47 years in 1900 to 59 in 1930!
Issue of “Overproduction” … Or was it “Underconsumption”?
Depressions In Early 1920s – Cartoon Urges Good Old Fashioned Hard Work -- “Times Look Pretty Dark”
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Post-War Crash in Agricultural Prices
Small Farmer Under Pressure From World Market
Rise of Agribusiness
Rise of Migrant Labor Pools in CA (Mexican Immigrants Harvesting Lettuce)
1915 Non-Patisan League – Calls of Restructuring (like Populists)
Cartoon of the “Snake Doctor” and Critique of Non-Partisan League
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Anti-Union Campaign by Owners – The “Open Shop”
Attempt of the National Textile Workers’ Union to Unionize Workers in Southern Mills
Response of Owners – “Company Unions”
1929 Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina
Pete Seeger’s “Mill Mother’s Lament” (See p. 350)
Supreme Court Supports “Yellow-Dog” Contracts
AFL Leadership Under Bill Green … Cartoons of “Employee Stock Ownership” and “A.F. of L. Delegates”
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Context of “America in the Jazz Age” – Unequal Wealth Distribution
Door Opens Abroad and Closes at Home
Real Estate Boom Accompanied by “Restrictive Covenants”
Spread of Household Appliances and Use of Electricity
Uneven Spread of Technology – See Graph of “Consumer Revolution, 1920-1930”
Contrast of Kitchen Stoves in 1899 and 1924
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Dominance of Ford; River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI – Vertically Integrated Operations
Rise of Competition from G.M. and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (“Laws” of Paris Dressmakers)
Cartoon of “Automobiles to Match Milady’s Mood”
Ford’s Radical Standardization Out by End of the 1920s
Chart of Automobile Sales 1900-1946
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Freud and Bernays: Psychoanalysis and Propaganda
The Century of the Self (Pt. 1)
1928 Advertizement With Emilia Erhart Endorsing Lucky Strikes
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Door Opens Abroad and Closes at Home
Era of the Radio Program
Movie Houses Expand Offerings to Suit Local Tastes, Bring in Broader Audience
National Film Industry – Emergence of the “Talkie” and Palatial Theaters
Charts of Baseball and Movie Attendance
Age of Rudoph Valentio, Harry Houdini and Babe Ruth
Cosmograph Picture – Rudolph Valentino’s Surgery
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Suffragist Alice Paul’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) 1923 -1972
Passing the 19th Amendment – Right to Vote
Professionalization and Women’s Work
“Flapper” Image in Life
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1920-1930 – 824,000 African-Americans Left the South
Destinations – NY, Chicago, Clevelend, Detroit …
Ford’s Recruitment of African-American Workers
Growth of Urban Black Middle Class
Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Harlem Renaissance: Jazz of Louis Armstrong & Poetry of Langston Hughes
NAACP Campaign Against Lynching - November 1922 Anti-Lynching Bill Passes House, Defeated in the Senate
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