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Unleashing the Roaring Twenties: Impact of Treaty Rejection & Harlem Renaissance

Explore how US rejection of WWI Treaty shaped history, failed League of Nations, led to 1920s cultural explosion in Harlem. Discover key figures, events, and influences of this vibrant era.

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Unleashing the Roaring Twenties: Impact of Treaty Rejection & Harlem Renaissance

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  1. We object to this Treaty! It will only drag us into more wars. And most importantly, American foreign policy decisions should always be made by US leaders, not international organizations like the League of Nations! Warm Up • What was the Treaty that ended World War I? • Why did the US reject it? • How did this lead to the failure of the League of Nations? Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge

  2. Flapper style dress Drinking, dancing, socializing

  3. Flapper style dress Drinking, dancing, socializing Receive right to vote with 19th Amendment

  4. Evolution Theory Teacher – Mr. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in TN The Scopes “monkey trial” became a national event

  5. Immigration Rises to pre-war levels Quotas set for number of immigrants allowed KKK turns hatred toward all foreigners

  6. The Red Scare Fear of communism & radicals Sacco & Vanzetti – 2 immigrants accused of murder

  7. Sacco & Vanzetti

  8. Prohibition 18th Amendment bans sale & manufacture of alcohol Organized crime gets $$$$ smuggling Speakeasies (secret bars) open across US

  9. The Harlem Renaissance

  10. Flowering of black culture in the 1920’s Centered in Harlem neighborhood of NYC Includes new art, music, & literature

  11. Artists William H. Johnson Palmer Hayden Archibald Motley, Jr.

  12. Literature • Langston Hughes • Novelist, “jazz poet” & playwright • Zora Neale Hurston • Author of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God • Claude McKay • Poet & novelist

  13. Music • Swing • Cab Calloway • Count Basie • Jazz • Duke Ellington • Dizzy Gillespie • Blues • Bessie Smith • Ma Rainey

  14. Which aspects of Harlem Renaissance culture do you feel had the biggest influence & why? • Why do you think the Harlem Renaissance took place in New York?

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