1. “The Roaring Twenties”
The 1920’s
Group Presentations
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2. An Era of Prosperity
Republican Power
and Conflict

3. The Roaring Twenties

4. Age of Prosperity
Economic expansion
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Age of the Automobile
 More Leisure Time
Ailing Agriculture

5. Republican Power
 President
Harding
 Elected 1920
 Legacy of
Scandals
 “Teapot Dome”
 Died in office

6. President Coolidge
“The business of America is business.”
 “Silent Cal”
 Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- Raised Tariffs
 No help for farmers
 Foreign Policy

7. Herbert Hoover
 Iowa Farm Boy
 Hooverizing
 Elected in 1928
 3rd Republican
Pro-Big Business
Pres. In a row

8. Consumer Economy
Automobiles
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Electric Appliances
Washing machines
Refrigerators
Vacuum cleaners
buy “on credit”
- installments -
Energy Consumption
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas

9. Culture of the Roaring 20’s
Radio
Disney’s
NBC Steamboat
Willie
Silent Movies
Charlie Chaplin “The Little Tramp”
“Talkies”
The Jazz Singer
Starring Al Jolson

10. Celebrities of the 20’s
Who were they?
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
“Lucky Lindy”
The Spirit of St. Louis

11. The 20’s is The Jazz Age
The Flappers
- make up
- cigarettes
- short skirts
Musicians
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway

13. A Society in Conflict
 Anti-immigrant
– National Origins Act
– Discrimination
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
– Italian immigrants
– Unfair trial
 Garvey Movement
– Marcus Garvey
– Back to Africa

14. The Ku Klux Klan
Great increase
In power
Anti-black
Anti-immigrant
Anti-women’s suffrage
Anti-bootleggers
Anti-semitic
Anti-catholic

15. Scopes “Monkey”Trial
Evolution vs. Creationism
Famous Lawyers
Science vs. Religion
John Scopes
High School Biology teacher

16. Prohibition18th Amendment Volstead Act
Gangsters
Al Capone

17. Topics to Pick From/ 2-4 people per Group
1) Ch 16.4 – The War’s Impact / Postwar Turmoil
“The Red Scare”
2) Ch 17.1 – Politics of the 1920’s / Republican Influence
3) Ch 17.2 – A Growing Economy / The Rise of New
“The Model T” Industries
4) Ch 17.3 – A Clash of Values / Nativism & Racism
Prohibition and the “Klan”
5) Ch 17.4 - Cultural Innovations / Art & Literature and
“Popular Culture” and Sports
6) Ch 17.5 – African American Culture /
“The Harlem Renaissance” & Black Nationalism