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