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The Roaring 20’s. By Jordan Paulsen, Andie Day, Chad Eberl and Brittany Hayward. Video. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30246-assignment-discovery-roaring-20s-video.htm. Government. The U.S. g overnment was Republican throughout the 1920’s
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The Roaring 20’s By Jordan Paulsen, Andie Day, Chad Eberl and Brittany Hayward
Video http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30246-assignment-discovery-roaring-20s-video.htm
The U.S. government was Republican throughout the 1920’s • There was limited federal government involvement. • Agriculture dipped because there was no federal help. • Both houses of Congress were Republican.
Presidents • The people were frustrated with the expanding federal government and President Wilson’s domestic and international activism. Their votes expelled the democrats. • Harding 1920-1923 • Coolidge 1923-1928 • Hoover 1929-1933
Harding • Campaigned on the simple promise of a "return to normalcy." Normalcy, under the Harding administration, meant a government that was pro-business, anti-tax, and anti-regulation.
Coolidge • Harding died and Vice President Coolidge took over office. • Coolidge was reelected into full term in 1924 • Coolidge shared Harding’s view of economic conservatism
Economics • “Golden Twenties” because of the economic boom following WWI • Lasted almost the entire century, until the Stock Market Crash of October 1929 crashed • Beginning of the ten-year Great Depression
Insulin • Two Canadian scientists discovered the hormone insulin • Insulin regulates blood sugar in the body • Injections of this hormone help those with diabetes to a regular lifestyle
Albert Einstein • Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in 1921 • Awarded for his services to Theoretical Physics • and especially his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Radio/Television • Radio in full effect in 1920’s • Previous discoveries had been made in radio, but radios became much more abundant in this decade • First public radio broadcasting: 1920 • Television • Invented in 1927 by Philo Farnsworth • Information was becoming much more accessible • Likely had an effect on culture
The Scopes Trial • Court trial challenged Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution • Religion and science were clashing • A biology teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution, and charged $100
Architecture • Skyscrapers: Woolworth Building, Wrigley Building, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building were Art Deco buildings • Frank Lloyd Wright was designing homes in California and Japan • Designers: Karl Weber and Eliel Saarinen
International Art Expo • Held in Paris in 1925 • Art was modern and rebellious • An important exposition for promoting Art Deco • Term “Art Deco” is shortened from the French name for this event: Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et IndustrielsModernes
Art Movements • Modernism (avant-garde): rejects realism and enlightenment; advances “futurism”: Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Klimt, Kandinsky • Dadaism (“anti-art”): a protest against brutality of war (came after WWI); rebelled against intellectual rigidity; deliberately irrational: Duchamp, Ernst, Arp • Surrealism: influenced by Dadaism and psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung: Ernst, Miro, Salvador Dali • Harlem Renaissance/African American Art: primarily centered around writers, but graphic artist Aaron Douglas emerged, portraying the modern African American experience • Movements were rebellious, new and abstract • All effect modern day art
Reader's Digest • De Witt Wallace and Lila Wallace • Magazine that condensed news and entertainment articles taken from other magazines and reprinted • Politics, health, social and business articles
Radio and Television • Radio dominated the American culture • 3 million owned by 1923 • By 1926 television became popular, combining sight and sound to rival radio • Tabloids were major components of media dealing with scandal and crime • Also known as “Jazz Journalism”: entertainment rather than news-based, emphasizing a era of the decadent lifestyle and adventurous spirit • It was an era when anyone who appeared in the press became an instant celebrity. • Charles Lindbergh
Movies Nosferatu, the Vampire (1922) Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’swife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula." Battleship Potemkin(1925) A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. Sherlock Jr. (1924) A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framedby a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. Director: Buster Keaton http://www.charliechaplin.com/
Flappers In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.
Citations • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio • http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/#Actor • http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/themes/media/md20s.html • http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468300814.html