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Post war social changes. Ch 13 Sec 1. Quick Write How do you think the older generation views your generation? Explain. What was life like during ?. The Roaring Twenties. RT cont’d. Women’s dress - 1900. Women’s dress - 1920.
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Post war social changes Ch 13 Sec 1
Quick Write • How do you think the older generation views your generation? Explain.
Women’s dress - 1900 Women’s dress - 1920
“She wore a knitted hat, with hardly any brim, of a flame or bonfire hue; a henna scarf; two strings of Betty beads, of different colors, twisted together; an open short coat, with ample pockets; a skirt with vertical stripes… her stockings were woolen and of brilliant hue.” • Psychologist G. Stanley Hall
Female Dollar Very Good No Kissing/Making Out Model T Illicit Bar The Ultimate A Person Who Lives the Big Life Eyeglasses A Sailor Doughnut • Tomato • Clam • Ducky • Bank’s Closed • Flivver • Speakeasy • Bee’s Knees • Egg • Cheaters • Bell Bottom • Sinker
The brutality of WWI caused writers to question accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the future
Poets and Writers T.S. Eliot described a world of ”empty men and hollow dreams," showing the 20s weren't perfect
Poets and Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald - wrote The Great Gatsby, a book that exposed the superficiality of the 1920s lifestyle.
Ernest Hemingway One of the most famous American writers of all time; wrote about anti-heroes (or flawed main characters); wrote in a direct or simple way
Harlem Renaissance • *African American cultural awakening. • *Cultural pride expressed
Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the center of the African American political, cultural, and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Causes Growing African American Middle Class: developed as a result of improved educational and employment opportunities for African Americans.
Impact Before After The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Quick Write Do you think the government should try to regulate the moral behavior of its citizens?
Conceived by the Progressives Was a plan to stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages
Added to the Constitution in 1919 Made the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal
Reduce Crime Reduce Poverty Lower Death Rates Improve the Quality of Life
Speakeasies were one of the many ways that people during the 1920's and early 1930's obtained illegal alcohol.
Treasury Dept already had agents to enforce federal taxes The 18th Amendment now gave the power to the federal government to use police powers A governments power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals
Prohibition contributed to organized crime in major cities Underground gangs battled for control of the booze racket 1923 – Al Capone emerged as leader of organized crime Controlled Chicago liquor business by killing competitors
Prohibition failed because the policy was unenforceable Only 5% of smuggled liquor was actually stopped from coming into the country Gangs overpowered or bribed authority figures
Instead of lowering the crime rate prohibition actually lead to an increase in crime. Large amounts of money could be made from illegal bootlegging.
Sigmund Freud Albert Einstein
Surrealism Features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non-sequitur. Attempted to portray the subconscious. Favored irrational ideas. The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
Surrealism Artist-Salvador Dali
Analytical Cubism Woman With A Guitar, Georges Braque
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