HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Billy Sunday, Clarence Darrow, Butler Act

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2/14-2/16 The Forgotten Depression 1920-1921
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
11:05 AM
Tax cuts and spending cuts
(1926) 1.6% unemployment
National debt reduced by 1/3
Federal budget cut in half
Calvin Coolidge "Silent Cal"
o More important to kill "bad" bills than to pass "good" ones
o Unnecessary taxation is stealing
Consumer Goods
Radios
Telephones
Refrigerators
Washing Machines
Vacuums
Kitchen Appliances
Automobiles: The Ford Model T
o Wanted to make the car available to the common man
Automobiles: General Motors
o Offered more options at different price points
Jazz and the Jazz Age
Louis B Armstrong
Clash of Cultures
"Old Culture"
Emphazsized production
Character
Scarcity
Religion
Idealized the Past
Local Culture
Substance
" New" Culture
Emphasized Consumption
Personality
Abundance
Science
Looked to the Future
Mass Culture
Image
Flappers
Bobbed her hair
Concealed her forehead
Flattened her chest
Hid her waist
Dieted away her hips
Kept her legs in plain sight
Hollywood
Silent films
Introduction of synchronized sound (talking in movies)
Walt Disneys film "steamboat willey" is the first 'talkie'
The Rise and Fall of the 2nd KKK
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