Standard 16

Standard 16 Presentation

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Aftermath of WW1

2. Red Scare
•After WW1, inflation caused economic
problems in USA
•Led to large amount of strikes
–Seattle Shipyard
–Boston Police Strike
•Many Americans thought this would lead to
Communists taking over

3. Red Scare
•Homemade bombs were intercepted in the
mail that were sent to prominent Americans
•One bomb made it to Atty Gen. A. Mitchell
Palmer’s house
•Palmer created the Federal Bureau of
Investigation
–Detained thousands of suspects and deported
almost 600

4. A Mitchell Palmer

5. Immigration Restrictions
•Fear and prejudice of
Communists led to rise in
racism and nativism
•Example of prejudice
would be Sacco and
Vanzetti case
–Executed for robbery and
murder of two employees
at a shoe factory
–Were Anarchists
–Even though evidence was
sketchy, they were
convicted

6. Rebirth of KKK
•KKK restarted atop
Stone Mountain in 1915
–Lost influence in 20s
because of scandals
•US immigration policies
changed after war
–1921- Emergency Quota
Act
–1924- National Origins
Act

7. Henry Ford

8. First car built by Ford in 1893

9. The Model ‘T’ Ford
•Henry Ford set out to
build a car which
everyone could afford to
buy.
•It was slow, ugly and
difficult to drive, and was
nick named the ‘Tin
Lizzie’ by the American
people.

10. The Model ‘T’ Ford
•The attraction of the Model
T Ford (T=Touring) was that
its price never increased.
•Costing $1200 in 1909, the
price in 1928 was only $295.
•By 1929 Ford was producing
more than one car per
minute

11. Mass Production
Ford invented the idea of using an Assembly Line to
speed up production.

12. Mass Production
•Ford was able to sell cars cheaply because they
were mass-produced and every part was
Standardised (only one color and one engine size
were available).

•By producing large numbers of cars on an
Assembly Line Ford needed fewer skilled workers.

13. Key Quote – Henry Ford
How would this have helped to cut production costs?
‘A customer can
have any color he
likes for his car so
long as it's black’

14. Car Industry
Mass productions &
Standardisation lead to
increased car sales.
More Standardised
parts are needed
More jobs are
created in other
industries.
Steel
Glass
Rubber
Leather
More people with
jobs means that
they can afford to
buy a car!
Jobs in Diners,
Motels & Gas
Stations.
More Oil
is used.
More roads
are built.
The Cycle
of
Prosperity!

15. Economy
•Economy was consumer oriented
•Electronic devices became very popular
Wireless telegraphy by
Marconi

16. Impact of Radio
•KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the first radio
show in 1920
•Soon majority of US households gathered
around radios at night for entertainment
•Now everyone across the country can listen to
the same thing
•Advertising became a powerful selling tool

17. Movies
•In the mid 20s, Hollywood boomed when
talking movies were made possible
•“The Jazz Singer”- first “talkie”
•Movies were a cheap, accessible form of
entertainment

18. Entertainment

19. PROHIBITION
•Rationing during WW1
helped the cry for
prohibition
•1919- 18
th
Amendment
and Volstead Act
–Very hard to enforce
•Rise in organized
crime/gangsters
•1933- 21
st
Amendment
repeals Prohibition

20. Culture of 1920s

21. The Harlem Renaissance
•A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s-
30s. It was known as the "New Negro
Movement". It was centered in the Harlem
neighborhood of New York City.
•This was the "flowering of Negro arts and
literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred
to call the Harlem Renaissance.

22. Cultural Expressions
•Includes music, art, designs, names, signs and
symbols, performances, architectural forms,
handicrafts and narratives.
•Cultural Expressions embody know-how and
skills, and they transmit values and beliefs.
•They also enhance cultural diversity and the
preservation of cultural heritage.

23. JAZZ
•Started in the early 20
th
century in the
Southern USA, and quickly spread to
nationwide
•Mixture of African and European music
traditions

24. The Jazz Age
•The radio audience and
the African American
migration to the cities
made jazz popular.
–Improvisation of
music
–And offbeat rhythm.

25. Jazz Musicians

26. “Satchmo”
•Louis Armstrong (1901
– 1974)
•Nicknamed:“Satchmo”
and “The Gift”
•He went form New
Orleans to Chicago to
the world.
•Famous for playing
Trumpet and singing
“scat”

27. Tin Pan Alley
•The start of Tin Pan Alley was the early 1900’s, when a
number of music publishers set up shop in the same
district of Manhattan.
•Tin Pan Alley was originally a specific place in New York
City, West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue.

28. Jazz Clubs and Dance Halls
•To hear the “real” jazz
– you had to go to NYC
and the neighborhood
of Harlem.
–There were over
500 jazz clubs in
Harlem.
–The Cotton Club
was the most
famous night club.

29. Irving Berlin
•He was an American composer
and lyricist, widely considered one
of the greatest songwriters in
history.
•During his 70-year career he wrote
an estimated 1,500 songs,
including the music for 19
Broadway shows and 18
Hollywood films, his songs were
nominated eight times for
Academy Awards.

30. Jazz Heroes in Writing
•Langston Hughes is best-
known for his work during
the Harlem Renaissance.
He famously wrote about
the Harlem Renaissance,
saying that "Harlem was in
vogue".
•Claude McKay’s “If We
Must Die”