Roaring Twenties

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Roaring Twenties
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American Life Changes
Boom or Bust The Roaring Twenties The
economic boom period of the 1920s had a
significant effect on the daily lives of many but
not all Americans.
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A New Popular Culture is Born
New technologies helped produce a new mass
culture in the 1920s.
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New Technology
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New Technology

• During the 1920s, the radio went from being
  a little-known novelty to being standard
  equipment in every American home.

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New Technologies

• The great popularity of movies in the 1920s gave
  rise to a new kind of celebritythe movie star.

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Pilot Heroes of the Twenties
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
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Effects of Urbanization

• Though the 1920s was a time of great economic
  opportunities for many, farmers, sharecroppers,
  and underpaid factory workers did not share in
  the prosperity.
• The 1920 census showed that for the first time
  ever, more Americans lived in cities than in
  rural.
• New appliances and an increased reliance on
  electricity to run them also changed the daily
  lives of many Americans, particularly women
• What are the new inventions and how did they
  change everyday life?

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Prohibition

• 1919 The Eighteenth Amendment begins
  Prohibition.
• The amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale,
  and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
• Bootleg liquor and speakeasies gave rise to
  crime.
• The amendment was repealed in the early 1930s

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Prohibition
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The Harlem Renaissance

• The Main Idea
• Transformations in the African American community
  contributed to a blossoming of black culture
  centered in Harlem, New York.
• What was Harlem, and how was it affected by the
  Great Migration?
• Who were the key figures of the Harlem
  Renaissance?

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The Great Migration

• Beginning around 1910, Harlem, New York, became a
  favorite destination for black Americans
  migrating from the South.
• Southern life was difficult for African
  Americans, many of whom worked as sharecroppers
  or in other low-paying jobs and often faced
  racial violence.
• Many African Americans looked to the North to
  find freedom and economic opportunities, and
  during World War I the demand for equipment and
  supplies offered African Americans factory jobs
  in the North.
• African American newspapers spread the word of
  opportunities in northern cities, and African
  Americans streamed into cities such as Chicago
  and Detroit.
• This major relocation of African Americans is
  known as the Great Migration.

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African Americans after World War I

• Push
• Jim Crow laws and lynchings as well as the
  economic hardship of sharecropping.
• Effects of the boll weevil

• Pull
• Job opportunities in the factories brought
  African Americans to the cities of the North and
  Midwest.

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Life in Harlem

• New York City was one of the northern cities many
  African Americans moved to during the Great
  Migration, and by the early 1920s, about 200,000
  African Americans lived in the city.
• Most of these people lived in a neighborhood
  known as Harlem, which became the unofficial
  capital of African American culture and activism
  in the United States.
• Writers, artists and musicians gathered together.
• Jazz music, which grew out of African American
  tradition, became the rage.

This movement was known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Performers and Musicians
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The Birth of Jazz
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Sports Heroes

• Radio helped inflame the public passion for
  sports, and millions of Americans tuned in to
  broadcasts of ballgames and prize fights
  featuring their favorite athletes.

Helen Wills Played powerful tennis, winning 31 major tournaments and two Olympic gold medals. Her nerves of steel earned her the nickname Little Miss Poker Face. Red Grange College football player who earned the nickname the Galloping Ghost for his speed. He turned professional after college, which was shocking at the time.
Babe Ruth Known as the Sultan of Swat, Ruth was legendary on the baseball field for his home runs. His legend lives on today in baseball circles and popular culture. Bobby Jones Jones won golfs first Grand Slam, meaning he won the games four major tournaments, and remains the only golfer to get a Grand Slam for matches in one calendar year.
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