PPT-The Politics of Normalcy (1920’s)

Chapter 27 Normalcy What is normalcy Why would Americans be craving normalcy in the 1920s Who would Americans look to for some normalcy A Republican Era Begins Warren Harding Ohio newspaper owner won presidency in 1920. THE LOITERERS and OTHER POEMS By LOUIS LEAKEY Published by The Loiterers Carnegie Hall, New York. Copies may be had from Brentano's or Putnams. 1920 Copyright LOUIS LEAKEY 1920. rbB 18 1920 J .A56i886 . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. The Culture War. “Normalcy” Under Attack. Nativism. XENOPHOBIA. The Bolshevik Revolution. (1917). POSSIBLY . YOU!. Communists. SLO’s. Henry Ford moved America forward economically. SW describe how the consumer revolution and bull market came to be. How are the effects of the economic boom on urban and rural similar/different?. number) Course Section Course Title Bldg./Rm Begin-End Day(s) HUM 1920 0001 FIG COLLOQUIUM HCB_0212 10:10AM-11:00AM W CGS 2100 0004 MICRO APPL FOR BS/EC HCB_0101 03:35PM-04:50PM TR FLH_0255 12:30PM-01 . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. USHC 6.2. Explain the causes and effects of the social change and conflict between traditional and modern culture that took place during the 1920s, including the role of women, the “Red Scare”, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial. . US History: Spiconardi. Starter. Imagine you’re a soldier returning home from war. What are you going to do now that you’re home? . How do you get back to “normal?” What . might be difficult about being back on U.S. soil?. Prohibition. January 1920- 18th Amendment. Sale of alcohol was illegal . Bootlegging- Illegally producing and selling alcohol . Speakeasies. Illegal establishments that sold liquor. “Speak easy” when you are at a bar so you don’t look nervous or act suspicious . By 1920, just over 20 percent of Americans were high school graduates and only 8 percent were college graduates. . C. ollege . football was enormously popular with the nation's populace. . People . attended games and huddled by their radios to follow the action on Saturday afternoons. . There were significant differences between the quality of play and the fan base for pro and college basketball. . Many of the professionals never went to college and some did not even complete high school. . The “manly art of boxing,” seemingly ingrained in many cultures and introduced in the original Olympics in about 688 . bce. , adopted the Marquis of Queensbury rules in the late 1800s and made the sport less violent. . 30. “They . were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don't know if I realized as soon as I began seeing them that they represented the wave of the future, but I do know I was drawn to them. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about. 16 franchises . had been established for at least a decade, the World Series had become institutionalized since its onset in . 1900. . Minor-league . baseball teams at levels from Class AAA to Class D were located in almost every town of more than 10,000 . American . Communist Party . formed in 1919. c. ommunist ideas frightened much of the public. Palmer Raids . (1919) resulted in the deportation and arrest of . thousands. n. o evidence of revolutionary conspiracies uncovered. ”. 3 trends common to America in 1920. ’. s. Renewed . isolationism. : U.S. began to pull away from involvement in foreign affairs. EX. Wouldn. ’. t join League of Nations. Resurgence of . Nativism.