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ROARING TWENTIES

ROARING TWENTIES. ROARING TWENTIES. FLAPPERS WOMEN REBELLIOUS ENERGENTIC FUN-LOVING AND BOLD ALL DESCRIPITIONS OF A FLAPPER. ROARING TWENTIES. Small representation of all women Image had wide spread influence Proper women did not drink in public. ROARING TWENTIES.

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ROARING TWENTIES

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  1. ROARING TWENTIES

  2. ROARING TWENTIES • FLAPPERS • WOMEN • REBELLIOUS ENERGENTIC • FUN-LOVING AND BOLD • ALL DESCRIPITIONS OF A FLAPPER

  3. ROARING TWENTIES • Small representation of all women • Image had wide spread influence • Proper women did not drink in public

  4. ROARING TWENTIES • Anything stronger than wine • Did not smoke in public • Women smokers increased • Outraged parents and the public

  5. ROARING TWENTIES • Women held lesser positions in work force than males • Gained right to vote but not all participated • Rural transportation was issue • Child rearing no one to watch

  6. ROARING TWENTIES • Demographics how statistics are used to measure population tendencies • Farmers were stressed • Over production lowered prices

  7. ROARING TWENTIES • Rural migration to cities • Promise of higher wages • Immigration • Limited numbers of those who could enter

  8. ROARING TWENTIES • Limitations did not cover Americas • Used migrant workers from Mexico

  9. ROARING TWENTIES • Civil Rights • Jin Crow Laws • Plessy v Ferguson

  10. ROARING TWENTIES • Job opportunities in North better than South but were limited • Whites resented African Americans • Take jobs lower wages

  11. ROARING TWENTIES • Suburbs • Began growth of Suburbs • Trolleys trains and busses • Allowed work force to live away from city proper

  12. ROARING TWENTIES • Heroes • Lucky Lindy • First to fly across Atlantic solo • Became National hero • Remained modest thus increasing popularity

  13. ROARING TWENTIES • Amelia Earhart • first woman to fly solo across Atlantic • First successful flight from Hawaii to California

  14. ROARING TWENTIES • Sport Heroes • Negro Leagues • Baseball • Josh Gibson • Satchel Paige

  15. ROARING TWENTIES • Babe Ruth • “Sultan of Swat” House that Ruth built Yankee Stadium Jack Dempsey • Jim Thorpe

  16. ROARING TWENTIES • Mass Media • Hollywood developed • Vast differences of scenery deserts, snow capped mountains all help area grow

  17. ROARING TWENTIES • Warm climate and sun needed to film • “Talkies” sound of voices added to film • Exploded in popularity

  18. ROARING TWENTIES • Theaters rose from 5,00 in 1910 to 22,500 in 1930 • Elaborate design ornate lobbies balconies place to go • 125,000 million people in the United States

  19. ROARING TWENTIES • 80 million tickets were sold each week for movies

  20. ROARING TWENTIES • Magazines and Newspapers • More readers less independent newspapers • Tabloids instead of Hard News

  21. ROARING TWENTIES • Magazines • Saturday Evening Post • Readers Digest • Time • Ladies Home Journal

  22. ROARING TWENTIES • Radio recorded music and sports scores • KDKA first commercial radio station • Advertising began as an afterthought

  23. ROARING TWENTIES • NBC became the country wide broadcasting company others soon followed

  24. ROARING TWENTIES • Jazz Age • African American music of the south • Radio popularized Jazz Jazz clubs allowed musicians to play

  25. ROARING TWENTIES • Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington • Benny Goodman • Charleston became popular

  26. ROARING TWENTIES • Jazz sprung Off shoots • George Gershwin • “Rhapsody in Blue” • Combination of symphonic and jazz

  27. ROARING TWENTIES • Cotton Club • Saratoga Club • Connie’s Inn • Black Artists performed for mainly white audiences

  28. ROARING TWENTIES • Writers • Lost Generation • Ernest Hemmingway • F Scot Fitzgerald • Most settled in Paris

  29. ROARING TWENTIES • Harlem Renaissance • Grew from 50,000 to 200,000 in 16 years • Literature and music of African Americans

  30. ROARING TWENTIES • NAACP • James Weldon Johnson • Alain Locke The New Negro • African American Culture

  31. ROARING TWENTIES • Langston Hughes • Joys and difficulties of being American and black

  32. ROARING TWENTIES • Moonshiners • Made illegal alcohol from grain • Shipped from Ireland Canada • Speedboats delivered liquor faster than Coast Guard ships

  33. ROARING TWENTIES • Souped up cars out ran government agents • Early beginnings of NASCAR • Speakeasies • Illegal clubs

  34. ROARING TWENTIES • More speakeasies than legal bars • Needed membership card • Or knew guard at the door

  35. ROARING TWENTIES • Spawned organized crime • Gang wars • Successful bootlegging operations led to expansion • Gambling prostitution

  36. ROARING TWENTIES • Organized Crime • Al Capone • Racketeers • Made businesses pay “protection money”

  37. ROARING TWENTIES • Risked violence if they did not pay • Able to pay off judges and police and politicians • And judges

  38. ROARING TWENTIES • FBI had trouble capturing and convicting Capone • Judges and politicians on Capone’s payroll difficult to get conviction on murder and bootlegging

  39. ROARING TWENTIES • Finally convicted on White Collar crime not violent crime • Income Tax evasion landed Capone in jail

  40. ROARING TWENTIES • Fundamentalism • Bible contained no contradictions or errors • Supported Bible is literally true • Every story actually took place as written

  41. ROARING TWENTIES • Billy Sunday prominent preacher • Prominent figure in Prohibition movement • Aimee Semple McPherson

  42. ROARING TWENTIES • Master of theatrics • Sister Aimee great fund raiser used radio to broaden her religious following

  43. ROARING TWENTIES • Scopes Trial • Evolution vs. Fundamentalist • Tennessee passed • Illegal to teach Evolution

  44. ROARING TWENTIES • John T. Scopes challenged law • Trial combatants • William Jennings Bryan • Clarence Darrow

  45. ROARING TWENTIES • First trial covered by radio • Simple case law was broken but really came down to modern beliefs vs. traditional beliefs.

  46. ROARING TWENTIES Dramatic confrontation Darrow against Bryan Fundamentalist belied in literal interpretation of Bible Darrow interrogation of Bryan

  47. ROARING TWENTIES • Civil Rights • Riots • 25 cities summer of 1919 • Chicago hard hit • Rock fight

  48. ROARING TWENTIES • 17 year old African American was struck and killed while swimming • Several days of rioting broke out

  49. ROARING TWENTIES • 23 dead African Americans • 15 Whites • Destruction caused hundreds homeless

  50. ROARING TWENTIES • Revival of KKK • Colonel William J. Simmons revived • Not only in South • Indiana had lad the largest membership

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