Bell Ringer

1. Bell Ringer • What are some things you do that your parents don’t approve of/drives them nuts?

2. 1920s Shopping List

3. The Jazz Age Glamour, culture, and excitement!

4. The Lost Generation Finding a new meaning of life in postwar America

5. The Lost Generation • Coined by poet Gertrude Stein • Mostly writers, musicians, and painters who questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the future • Often settled in Paris, but often moved from city to city trying to find the meaning of life

6. Existentialism There is no universal understanding or meaning to life. Each person creates his or her own meaning in life through actions and choices taken.

7. Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms “A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS. A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading. GLAZED GLITTER. Nickel, what is nickel, it is originally rid of a cover.”

8. Lost Generation Writers • Ernest Hemmingway – known for stoic male characters and disillusionment with youth and heroism; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms

9. Buffalo Bill’s – e.e. cummings • e.e. cummings – experimented with typeset, diction, and punctuation in his poetry Buffalo Bill 's defunct             who used to             ride a watersmooth-silver                                                 stallion and break onetwothreefourfivepigeonsjustlikethat                                                                         Jesus he was a handsome man                                     and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

10. F. Scott Fitzgerald • The epitome of the age itself, coined the term the “Jazz Age” and glamorized the youth and excitement of the times in The Great Gatsby

11. Inventions and their effect on culture Technology

12. A New Consumer Culture • Many new goods came on the market to take advantage of the new disposable income. • Most were advertised on the radio • People began buying high-priced items on credit – enjoy now, pay later! • Quickly, credit was applied to all purchases, big and small, inflating ideas of the public wealth and security of purchases

13. The Radio • More than any other invention of the age, the radio changed the very nature of how Americans communicated • National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System became the first national broadcasts • It created a homogeneous American culture: • Sports • Entertainment • News • Advertising • Standardized speech patterns

14. Art Deco • Art Deco is one of the most enduring physical legacies of the 1920s • Art Deco became the prevailing style for everything from buildings (the Chrysler Building) to jewelry • It emphasized geometric shapes, pattern of color, and symmetry

15. What do these have in common?

16. Pantages Theatre

17. Putting America on the Move • By 1920, the automobile was a way of life for many Americans. • Henry Ford produced the first affordable automobile by using the assembly line. • 1913: Workers could build a car every 93 minutes. Sold for $490. • 1925: Workers finished a new Ford every 10 seconds. Sold $295. • Model T was nicknamed the “Tin Lizzie” or “Flivver” “You can get the Model T in any color you wish, as long as that color is black.”

18. Effects of the Automobile 1920 Ford Model T • Created a new industry that would drive America's economy for the next 50 years. • The automobile gave American youth the opportunity to pursue interests away from parents. • Allowed people to move farther away from the cities

19. Orteig Prize • In 1919, a New York City hotel owneroffered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. • Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize.

20. Charles Lindbergh • An American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. • Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours. • Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle."

21. The Spirit of St. Louis

22. Amelia Earhart

23. The Jazz Age Starts Swingin’ America’s Social Revolution

24. The Charleston

25. The Movies America is mesmerized by the silver screen Much had changed since Thomas Edison’s “moving pictures” – Hollywood was now a bustling metropolis filled with actors hoping to “make it big”

26. Hunks and Hams Charlie Chaplin Rudolph Valentino Douglas Fairbanks “Fatty” Arbuckle

27. Glittering Starlets Mary Pickford Marion Davies

28. The first The Ultimate Flapper! "It" girl Clara Bow

29. The Jazz Singer – The first “Talkie” The story begins with young JakieRabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie runs away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.

30. Sports • Babe Ruth • Jack Dempsey • NFL

31. The Great Experiment • In 1919, the 18th Amendment was passed, outlawing the manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States • Congress passed the Volstead Act a year later, which gave the federal government the ability to enforce the amendment.

32. Moonshining and Bootlegging • With alcohol still being a desired product, many turned to illegal methods of obtaining it • Moonshining • Bootlegging • Speakeasies

34. Gangsters • Prohibition did not decrease the demand for alcohol, and thus a cutthroat black market trade emerged. • Bootleggers began using intimidation and violence to guard their “territory” • Organized crime families got into the business as well, setting an example for how bootleggers could manage their “employees”

35. Gangster Party • Chicago was a central location for alcohol-related crime • Many gangsters with colorful names began making headlines: “Baby Face” Nelson, Lucky Luciano, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Jack “Legs” Diamond, “Bugs” Moran, “Bugsy” Siegel, John Dillinger

36. The Giant of the Underworld • Al Capone was the most influential and dangerous gangster • Suspected for his involvement with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (among other crimes), Capone was unable to be pinned down, since most of the actual violence was committed through his associates. • Was eventually sentenced for tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz, and died at home from the effects of pneumonia, a stroke, and syphilis

37. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre • A long-standing conflict between two powerful gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran • Resulted in the murder of 7 mob associates

38. The Harlem Renaissance Bringing African American culture into the forefront

39. African American Politics • WWI left African Americans with a new sense of pride, having shown bravery and dedication during the war. • W.E.B. Du Bois was very outspoken in his aim to increase the status of blacks in America. • NAACP battled valiantly to eliminate segregation and make lynching a federal offense

40. Marcus Garvey • A dynamic leader from Jamaica, he promoted “Negro Nationalism,” which glorified black culture and the traditions of the past • Back to Africa Movement

41. Literature • Literature of the Harlem Renaissance reflected the struggles and contributions of African Americans. • Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God • Relates the story of fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.

42. Literature Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

43. Jazz and Blues

44. Blues Bessie Smith – Empty Bed Blues I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bedBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findOh, he could grind my coffee, 'cause he had a brand new grind

45. Louis Armstrong – “Satchmo”

46. Jazz jumpstarts Classical George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue