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Roaring ‘20s!!!!!

Roaring ‘20s!!!!!. The Age of Normalcy The Age of the Flapper The Jazz Age. Reasons it happens. End of WWI leads to a new attitude (Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!) United States enters an economic boom due to total war (everyone NEEDS a car, washing machine, house, etc)

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Roaring ‘20s!!!!!

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  1. Roaring ‘20s!!!!! The Age of Normalcy The Age of the Flapper The Jazz Age

  2. Reasons it happens • End of WWI leads to a new attitude (Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!) • United States enters an economic boom due to total war (everyone NEEDS a car, washing machine, house, etc) • Women get the vote (flappers!) • Great Migration brings JAZZ to the North! • The “noble experiment”: Prohibition! • America’s focus is now entertainment (talkies, radios, baseball) and fun!

  3. Prohibition • 18th Amendment • Most people ignore! • Speakeasies: secret bars that still served alcohol • Bootleggers: people who made alcohol illegally • Leads to an increase in organized crime. Mafia power grows and names like Al Capone become household words!

  4. Life in the ’20s • Focus on entertainment • Athletes become heroes (Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson) • Radio and movies (Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo) • Entertainment is cheap and available to everyone • Transportation and communication have never been easier. People like Charles Lindberg and Amelia Earhart are famous • New inventions like Kleenex, Band Aids, Scotch Tape, Popsicle, Frigidaire are all designed to make people’s lives easier • Harlem Renaissance: rebirth or focus on African American culture. Introduces people like Marcus Garvey and Langston Hughes! • Huge splits between people living in rural and urban areas. Many people move to the suburbs.

  5. Flappers“Free women” • Heavily rouged cheeks • Bobbed hair • Shorter hemlines • Cigarette holders • Interest in women’s rights: Margaret Sanger

  6. Attitudes of the 20s • Nativism: anti immigration due to WWI • Modernism vs Fundamentalism (Scopes Monkey Trial) • Racism: rebirth of the Klan due to the film Birth of a Nation

  7. First Red Scare • America was afraid that Communism would spread to the United States • The US became overwhelmingly anti union and strikes. • Immigrants were often associated with communism • Sedition act: illegal to say profane things about US flag or government • Sacco and Vanzetti case

  8. The Lost Generation • American writers who moved to France • Included people like Earnest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck and F. Scott Fitzgerald • Many of these authors were disillusioned with the world and American society and chose to depict life in a depressing way.

  9. Scopes Monkey TrialModernism vs Fundamentalism • A young teacher in Tennessee taught the theory of evolution to his students. • He was put on trial for breaking the law and was defended by Clarence Darrow. • William Jennings Bryan defended the state. • Scopes lost and was fined $100.

  10. How does life in the 20s lead to the Great Depression? • False prosperity • Buying on credit • Speculative investments • Laissez faire decisions by Republicans • Farm prices drop • Overproduction of goods

  11. Masculine Women, Feminine Men, 1926 Assignment for today: Write a 10 line song to a tune of your choice that discusses one of the aspects of the Roaring 20s. Choose from the list below or make up your own: Modernism vs Fundamentalism Liberated Women New technology Transportation and Communication GrowthScopes Monkey Trial Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti Rebirth of the Klan Causes of the Depression • Masculine women, Feminine men • Which is the rooster, which is the hen? • It's hard to tell 'em apart today! And, say! • Sister is busy learning to shave, • Brother just loves his permanent wave, • It's hard to tell 'em apart today! Hey, hey! • Girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a tot, • Now we don't know who is who, or even what's what! • Knickers and trousers, baggy and wide, • Nobody knows who's walking inside, • Those masculine women and feminine men

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