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Rapping up the 1920s

Rapping up the 1920s. Lost generation. Rejected the quest for material possessions Some left the United States to Europe F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway. Harlem Renaissance. Cultural center for African Americans 50,000 in 1914 to 200,000 in 1930

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Rapping up the 1920s

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  1. Rapping up the 1920s

  2. Lost generation • Rejected the quest for material possessions • Some left the United States to Europe • F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway

  3. Harlem Renaissance • Cultural center for African Americans • 50,000 in 1914 to 200,000 in 1930 • National center for Jazz & African American writing • James Weldon & Langston Hughes

  4. Bootlegging • Speakeasies – bars that operated illegally • Al Capone • $60 million from bootlegging • Bought police, judges & city officials • Convicted of income-tax evasion

  5. Racial tension • Riots in Omaha, Tulsa & Washington D.C. • Chicago • 17 year old boy floated into the white section of the beach • White man throws rock at boy and he drowns • 23 Africans Americans & 15 whites dead which brings the total number of Americans dead to 38 • 537 wounded • Revival of the Klan

  6. Red Scarean intense fear of communism • Russian revolution (Communism) • Government owned all and property • Single political party controlled the gov’t • Needs of the country took priority over the rights of individuals • Americans thought the same could happen here • Anti-European feelings spread across U.S.

  7. Sacco & Vanzetti controversy • Gunmen robbed and killed the guard and paymaster of a shoe factory • Two Italian immigrants were arrested • Sacco’s gun was used • Vanzetti was probably innocent • Both were sent to the electric chair seven years later

  8. Teapot Dome Scandal • Harding enjoyed strong popularity • One official had stolen government funds • Others had taken bribes for getting contracts passed and laws passed • Several other officials were accused of wrong-doings two committed suicide • Sec. of Interior Albert Fall • Gave oil-drilling rights to two private companies to drill oil in Elk Hills, CA and Teapot Dome WY

  9. Scopes monkey trial1st trial broadcasted over radio • Evolution on trial (Clarence Darrow) • Theory states that human beings and all other living species developed over time from simpler life forms • Fundamentalist (William Jennings Bryant) • Contradicted the history of creation in the bible • William Jennings Bryant died three days later • John Scopes was found guilty

  10. 1919 World Series • White Sox = “Black Sox” • Betting odds suddenly switches • White Sox lose in eight games • Eight men were accused of fixing the series • Joe Jackson .375, Weaver .324, Gandil game deciding hits in game 3 & 4, Cicotte pitched on one game to keep the Sox from elimination • Later acquitted, but all eight were banned from baseball

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