Prohibition and the 1920s
I. Prohibition Law:
A. 18th Amendment
(prohibiting manufacture, sale, transport)
B. Volstead Act
(making
the 18th a “bone dry” amendment)
C. "Five and Ten Law"
(1929, 5 year, $10,000 penalty)
II. Prohibition Failure:
Why
Not More of a Success?
A. Minimal Enforcement:
B. Unrealistic Expectations:
C. Corruption:
D. Policy without Authority:
III. Repeal:
A. 21st Amendment (Dec. 5, 1933)
B. The Constitution and Federal
Intervention
IV. Progress and Decline in the
1920s:
A.
20s as
Decade of Cultural/Economic Flowering:
1.
Consumerism:
Edward Bernays=father of
modern pr
2.
Movies:
Warner
Bros. Pictures inc. in 1923
MGM formed in 1924
Fox Film Corporation founded in 1912
(became 20th Century Fox in
1935)
United
Artists, formed in 1919
(by
stars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Charlie Chaplin, and director D.W.
Griffith)
3.
Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay and Langston
Hughes
4.
“Lost Generation”
5.
The “New
Woman”
B.
1920s as a Decade of Ignorance, Cultural Decay
1.
Influenza
--killed 25 million worldwide
(700,000 in U.S.)
Historian Alfred Crosby:
The
virus “killed more humans than any other disease in a period of similar
duration in the history of the world.”
“I
had a little bird, I had a little
bird,
Its
name was Enza. Its name was Enza.
I
opened up the window, I opened up the
window, And in flu enza, In flu enza.”
Children’s
jump rope rhyme
2.
World Economic Chaos:
Ø
England=industrial
problems: General Strike of 1926
--2
million unemployed by 1930
--3 million unemp. in 1933
Ø
Depression
One billion per year in reparations
Hyperinflation in Germany:
1 dollar=9000 marks (Jan. of 1923)
1 dollar=4.2 trillion marks
(Nov. of 1923)
--one loaf of bread=580 billion marks
3.
Urban Racial
Unrest: Chicago, 1919
…48 recorded lynchings in 1917
…78 recorded lynchings in 1919
4.
Nativism:
a.
National
Origins Act of 1924
b.
Sacco and
Vanzetti
5.
The KKK
6.
Scopes
Monkey Trial
VII. Significance:
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