1 / 23

The Roaring 20’s

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

dacey
Download Presentation

The Roaring 20’s

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Roaring 20’s By Jordan Paulsen, Andie Day, Chad Eberl and Brittany Hayward

  2. Video http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30246-assignment-discovery-roaring-20s-video.htm

  3. Government

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Science/Technology

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Art

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Other Culture

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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/

  22. 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.

  23. 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

More Related