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Title: LIFE


1
THE ROARING TWENTIES
  • LIFE CULTURE IN AMERICA 1920-1929

2
Americans on the Move
  • Urbanization still accelerating
  • More Americans lived in cities than in rural
    areas

3
URBAN VS. RURAL
  • Urban life anonymous crowds, strangers,
    moneymakers, and pleasure seekers.
  • Rural life safety, with close personal ties,
    hard work and morals.

Cities were impersonal
Farms were innocent
4
Demographical Changes
  • Great Migration
  • African Americans moving North at rapid pace.
  • Jim Crow laws
  • New job opportunities in north

1860 93 in South 1930 80 in South
5
Ku Klux Klan
  • Colonel William J. Simmons
  • Revived organization in 1915
  • 1922 enrollment 4 million
  • Sales 8 commission of 10 initiation fee for
    recruits

6
Immigration
  • Emergency Quota Act (1921) 3 of ethnic group as
    per 1910 census SE Europe, exempted those in
    Western Hemisphere
  • National Origins Act (1924) 2 1890 census

7
Keep America America
8
SCIENCE AND RELIGION CLASH
  • Fundamentalists vs. Secular thinkers
  • Eugenics- pseudo-scientific racism
  • The Protestant movement - literal interpretation
    of the bible is known as fundamentalism
  • Fundamentalists found all truth in the bible
    including science evolution

9
SCOPES TRIAL
  • Tennessee made it a crime to teach evolution

Scopes was a biology teacher who dared to teach
his students that man derived from lower species
10
THE TWENTIES WOMAN
  • Women were independent and achieving greater
    freedoms.
  • ie. right to vote, more employment, freedom of
    the auto

Chicago 1926
11
THE FLAPPER
  • A Flapper was an emancipated young woman who
    embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes.

12
NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN
Early 20th Century teachers
  • Many women entered the workplace as nurses,
    teachers, librarians, secretaries.

13
THE CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILY
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Birth control activist
  • Founder of American Birth Control League
  • ie. Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger and other founders of the
American Birth Control League - 1921
14
PROHIBITION
  • The 18th Amendment in 1920
  • Launched era known as Prohibition
  • Made it illegal to make, distribute, sell,
    transport or consume liquor.
  • A.K.A. Volstead Act

15
PROHIBITION
16
SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION
  • Supporters were largely from the rural south and
    west

17
Poster supporting prohibition
18
SPEAKEASIES AND BOOTLEGGERS
  • To obtain liquor, drinkers went underground to
    hidden saloons known as speakeasies
  • People also bought liquor from bootleggers who
    smuggled it in from Canada, Cuba and the West
    Indies

19
GOVERNMENT FAILS TO CONTROL LIQUOR
  • Prohibition failed
  • Why? Government did not budget enough money to
    enforce the law

Federal agents pour wine down a sewer
20
SUPPORT FADES, PROHIBITION REPEALED
  • By the mid-1920s, only 19 of Americans
    supported Prohibition
  • The 21st Amendment finally repealed Prohibition
    in 1933

21
ORGANIZED CRIME
  • Al Capone
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • famous bootlegger
  • Scarface
  • 60 million yr (bootleg alone)

Al Capone was finally convicted on tax evasion
charges in 1931
22
St. Valentines Day Massacre
  • Valentines Day February 14, 1929
  • Rival between Al Capone and Bugs Moran
  • Capone South Side Italian gang
  • Moran North Side Irish gang
  • Bloody murder of 7 of Morans men.
  • Capones men dressed as cops

23
EXPANDING NEWS COVERAGE
  • Literacy increased in the 1920s
  • as a result
  • Newspaper and magazine circulation rose.

24
RADIO COMES OF AGE
  • Radio- most powerful mode of communication in
    1920s

25
Henry Ford and Model T
26
ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS
  • First sound movies Jazz Singer (1927)
  • First animated with sound Steamboat Willie
    (1928)
  • By 1930 millions of Americans went to the movies
    each week

Walt Disney's animated Steamboat Willie marked
the debut of Mickey Mouse. It was a seven minute
long black and white cartoon.
27
Icons of 1920s
28
LINDBERGHS FLIGHT
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • May 27, 1927 Lindbergh made the first nonstop
    solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • NYC - Paris
  • 33 ½ hours later (no auto pilot)
  • 25,000 prize

29
Amelia Earhart
  • 1932 First female to fly solo across the
    Atlantic
  • 1937 Attempt to fly around the world
  • 2/3 completed and went missing, presumed dead.

30
AMERICAN HEROES OF THE 20s
  • In 1929, Americans spent 4.5 billion on
    entertainment
  • Babe Ruth was a larger than life American hero
    who played for Yankees and hit 60 homers in 1927

31
1920s DANCING
  • Charleston
  • Swing Dancing
  • Dance Marathons

32
Walt Disney
  • Walt Disney only attended one year of high
    school.
  • He was the voice of Mickey Mouse for two decades.

33
ART OF THE 1920s
  • Georgia O Keeffe captured the grandeur of New
    York using intensely colored canvases

Radiator Building, Night, New York , 1927Georgia
O'Keeffe
34
WRITERS OF THE 1920s
  • Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase
    Jazz Age to describe the 1920s

35
MARCUS GARVEY - UNIA
  • Marcus Garvey believed that African Americans
    should build a separate society (Africa)
  • In 1914, Garvey founded the Universal Negro
    Improvement Association
  • Garvey represented a more radical approach

36
HARLEM, NEW YORK
  • Harlem, NY became the largest black urban
    community
  • Home to literary and artistic revival known as
    the Harlem Renaissance

37
LANGSTON HUGHES
  • Missouri-born Langston Hughes was the movements
    best known poet
  • Many of his poems described the difficult lives
    of working-class blacks

38
1919 Chicago White Sox
39
Prohibition Photos
  • http//www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/06/02/dining
    /20090603-speakeasy-slideshow_2.html
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