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Roaring Twenties. By: Jacina Steele. Popular Music. Jazz on radio & phonographs Musicals Lights on Broadway: –No-no Nanette –Show Boat –Rosalie –Runnin’ Wild. Movies. The Jazz Singer Broadway Melody. Singers. Sophie Tucker Fanny Brice Helen Morgan
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Roaring Twenties By: Jacina Steele
Popular Music • Jazz on radio & phonographs • Musicals • Lights on Broadway: –No-no Nanette –Show Boat –Rosalie –Runnin’ Wild
Movies • The Jazz Singer • Broadway Melody
Singers • Sophie Tucker • Fanny Brice • Helen Morgan • *Paul Whiteman “King of Jazz” #1 Hit.
18th Amendment went into effect ; selling possession, consumption of alcoholic beverages • End of World War I • U.S political focused on social and cultural issues1913-1921-Woodrow Wilson • 1921-1923-Warren G Harding • 1929-1933- Herbert Hoover • Overseas: There was war & Resolutions • Home: Strikes, growing fear of radicals & terrostist
Speeches • 1920 > Crystal Eastman “Now We Can Begin” • 1921/1922> Margaret Higgins Sanger “The Morality of Birth Control” • 1924> Clarence Seward “Mercy for Leopold and Loed” • 1925>Margaret Higgins Sanger “The Children Era”
Women • August 23 > Tennessee Legislator The Federal Suffrage Amendment –Women fight over their rights *Freedom is a large word in the 1920’s • Feminist are socialist , many were communist • Women weren't treated right • Wanted Freedom Wanted to be independent just like the men
Businesses • Large New Profit ; Factories and Wages Rises • Henry Ford – discount grocery store • Incomes Increased • The Number of Millionaires grew upon tax reports, 21 Individuals with income over 1 Million Dollars in 1921 , 75 in 1924 207 in 1926 15000 in 1927
Scientist • Diabetes: Frederick Grant Banting ( 1891-1941) and Charles Herbert Best ( 1899-1978) >Insulin: which regulates blood sugar levels, ricks of Coma and Death • Albert Einstein(1879-1955): won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) , Soon published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” -Migrated to the U.S in 1933 , Taught at Princeton University -Vitamin E was discovered : Dr. Herbert McLean Evans In antioxidants , foods
Facts • Tutankhamens Bomb: Nov 4,1922 • Baby Austin (1922-1941) • British Broadcasting Company (1922) • Innovation of Immunization (1923) • Beginning of Frozen Food (1925) • Television (1926) • Penicillin Discovered (1928)
Books • The Diary of a Young Girl by : Anne Frank • The Screwtape Letters by : C.S. Lewis • Ulysses by : James Joyce • The Age of Innocence by : Edith Wharton • The Mysterious Affair At Styles ( Hercules Poriot #1 ) by : Agatha Christie • The Side of Paradise by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Historical Events • American Art Deco – Exhibiitions, furniture , silver, ceramics, textiles. Architecture , jewerly, painting and Black and White illustrations • Art Movemenets • 1925 Year in Review – Texas net Museum of Art
106,521,537 people in the United States • 2,132,000 unemployed , unemployed 5.2% • Life epectancy : Male 53.6 , Female : 54.6 • Average annual earnings $1236 • Teachers salary $970 • Gangland crimes murder , swindles and racketeering • Took 13 days to reach California from New York
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html • http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1920.html