Class Notes #7: 1920s

To do:  Read and watch everything here and read chapter 17 in H & W.

 

Watch:  Crash Course: The Twenties Links to an external site.

 

1.  Overall, Americans feeling confident and more prosperous after WW I

• All groups making more money, but middle class (especially the very wealthy seeing the most improvements).
• European competition weakened because of the War
• Welfare capitalism:  large companies start to offer benefits like health insurance and paid vacation to some employees, trying to  keep employees from joining unions
• Women are free after the 19th!?!?!?!?

Consumerism increases

-------------------------Advertising & Credit 

 

 

 

 

FLAPPERS

Read:   How Flappers redefined Womanhood Links to an external site.

 

 

 

Amelia Earhart

 

Bessie Coleman

 

Babe Didrikson

 

Clara Bow:  The It Girl

 

 

Hollywood's Last Screen Goddess:  Clara Bow

 

Were women advancing in the 1920s?

 College

 Working

  Famous Women

Labor-Saving Devices

 

 

2.  Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance

Watch:   Harlem Renaissance Links to an external site.

I, Too Sing America Links to an external site. 

 

Take the A Train Links to an external site. 

Bessie Smith's Washwoman's Blues Links to an external site.

 

3.  Nativism

---------Rise of the KKK

---------National Origins Act---1924

                       ---2% Quota

-----Watch:    Foner on 1920s immigration Links to an external site.

 

KKK March, 1926.

 

 

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-----Watch:    Foner on 1920s immigration Links to an external site.