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Roaring 20s

Roaring 20s. Affluence and anxiety during the Jazz Age. New Technology. Automobile Vacuum cleaner Radio Air planes for non-military use Aerosol spray Antibiotics Frozen Food Hearing aides Liquid fuel rockets Quartz time keeping Talking pictures (movies w/ sound). Shipwreck Kelly.

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Roaring 20s

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  1. Roaring 20s Affluence and anxiety during the Jazz Age

  2. New Technology • Automobile • Vacuum cleaner • Radio • Air planes for non-military use • Aerosol spray • Antibiotics • Frozen Food • Hearing aides • Liquid fuel rockets • Quartz time keeping • Talking pictures (movies w/ sound)

  3. Shipwreck Kelly New Fads • Flag pole sitting • Counting Babe Ruth’s homeruns • Dance marathons • Crossword puzzles • Watching the stock ticker

  4. New Music & Dance • Jazz music • The Charleston

  5. Advertising: A billion $ industry • Bromodosis (foot odor) • Homotosis (lack of nice furniture) • Acidosis (upset stomach) • Coalitosis (use of coal instead of oil heat) • Ashtray breadth

  6. Ads and magazines target women

  7. Cigarette Ads

  8. New foods

  9. New female images/roles Josephine Baker Vogue Clara Bow Flappers

  10. New problems • Traffic jams • Organized crime

  11. New Vocabulary • Bee’s Knees • Big cheese • Blind date • Cake-eater • Carry a torch • Cheaters • Crush • Drug store cowboy • Fall guy • Flat tire • Frame • Gold digger • Jake • Kiddo • Kisser • Main drag • Run-around • Lounge lizard • Pet • Scram • Smeller • Stuck-on • Speakeasy • Swell

  12. New Heroes • Charles Lindbergh • Miss America • Babe Ruth • Jack Dempsey • Rudolph Valentino

  13. New Racial Pride Langston Hughes • Marcus Garvey • Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey Zora Neal Hurston

  14. Anxiety amid affluence • Urban v. rural conflict • Old v. young • Traditional v. modern • Native born v. immigrant C. Lindbergh Grant Wood F. Scott Fitzgerald/Zelda Sacco & Vanzetti

  15. Prohibition 1919-1933 • The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol (i.e. the beginning of Prohibition). It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. • Volstead Act provided for the enforcement of prohibition.

  16. “The Noble Experiment” Elliot Ness

  17. Art Art Deco and regionalism

  18. Literature: The Lost Generation • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Sinclair Lewis • H. L. Menken • Ernest Hemingway

  19. Presidents • Warren G. Harding (1921-1924) • Calvin Coolidge (1924-1929) • Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) • Republicans • Pro-business • Not activist presidents

  20. Teapot Dome Scandal • In 1921, by executive order of President Harding, control of U.S. Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming were transferred from the U.S. Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. • The petroleum reserves had been set aside for the Navy by Taft. • In 1922, Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to associates. • In 1922 and 1923, these transactions became the subject of a sensational Senate investigation.

  21. Teapot Dome Scandal: Graft Albert B. Fall

  22. Silent Cal • 30th President of the U.S. • Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little. "The business of America is business. The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.  The man who works there worships there.” –Coolidge, 1925

  23. Boston Police Strike 1919 • “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time.”Telegram from Governor Calvin Coolidge to Samuel Gompers September 14, 1919. Governor Calvin Coolidge inspects the militia during the Boston Police Strike

  24. Cash Register Chorus • Business croons its appreciation of Coolidge Prosperity.

  25. The Citizenship Act of 1924

  26. Indians as dual citizens • “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided, That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.”

  27. Herbert Hoover • Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. • As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". • Defeated NY Democrat Al Smith to win the presidency in 1928.

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