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What Should we really call the 1920s?

What Should we really call the 1920s?. The Jazz Age. Harlem Renaissance African American Voice Rhythm Blues Jass became Jazz Charleston Dancing . The Roaring 20s. Flappers Dresses to the knee Bob haircut Jobs outside the home Speakeasy Hidden alcohol consumption .

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What Should we really call the 1920s?

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  1. What Should we really call the 1920s?

  2. The Jazz Age • Harlem Renaissance • African American Voice • Rhythm • Blues • Jass became Jazz • Charleston • Dancing

  3. The Roaring 20s • Flappers • Dresses to the knee • Bob haircut • Jobs outside the home • Speakeasy • Hidden alcohol consumption

  4. The Dry Decade • Prohibition • Alcohol is Illegal , 18th Amendment • 1920- 1933 • Religiously Led • End with the 21st Amendment • Al Capone • Mob, more than just government • Alcohol running

  5. The Prosperity Decade • Stock Market • Stock • Margin • 10% • Price fixing • White Collar Crime • The norm

  6. The New Era • Mass Consumerism • Motion Pictures • “talkies” • Clothing, goods • Radio • Scopes Monkey Trial • Teacher in Tennessee John Scopes, violating Butler Act which stated it was illegal to teach evolution • William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow • Modernists against Fundamentalists • Ziegfeld's Follies • First musicals • Vaudeville

  7. The Age of Normalcy • Harding 1920 America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums [ineffectiveremedies], but normalcy; . . . not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate [calm]; not experiment,but equipoise [balance]; not submergence in internationality, but sustainmentin triumphant nationality."” Senator Warren G. Harding, speech in Boston, 1920 • The Red Scare • Against

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