America in the 1920s

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America in the 1920s

• The Roaring Twenties

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Outcome 7.1AHow did American life change during
the 1920s?
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Outcome 7.1BWhat led to these changes?(What
caused these changes?)
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Outcome 7.2AHow were these changes reflected in
popular culture?(Give examples of the changes)
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The 1920s A Decade of Change

• New technologies
• New sense of freedom
• New ways of living
• New forms of cultural expression, art
• New entertainment
• New feeling of optimism

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New Technologies

• Cars! Ford mass produces the Model T 250!

• Radios
• Electricity
• Phonograph

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New Sense of Freedom

• Cars

• Women Flappers New freedom of expression through
  style hair, clothes, make-up

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Before
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New Entertainment
Jazz
Louis Armstrong
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New Entertainment
Professional Sports
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New Entertainment
Motion Pictures Speakeasies/ clubs
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New ways of living
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New forms of cultural expression, art

• Harlem Renaissance African-American art, music,
  poetry becoming popular

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New feeling of optimism

• Charles Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic
  Ocean

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New feeling of optimism

• American business expanding
• People buying goods on credit
• Investing in stock market

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New feeling of optimism
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Butnot everyone likes change
Urban values vs. Rural values Traditional vs.
New Religion vs. Science
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Outcome 7.3 How did these changing ideas clash
with traditional values?
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Butnot everyone likes change
Changing ideas clash with traditional values
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Butnot everyone likes change
Prohibition was good for gangsters and
bootleggers like Al Capone -gt
Changing ideas clash with traditional values
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Butnot everyone likes change

• Scopes Trial
• Fundamentalists vs. Science
• Darwin vs. The Bible

Changing ideas clash with traditional values
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Harlem

• African American neighborhood in New York City
• Renaissance rebirth of culture

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Causes of the Great Migration

• Why did African Americans move north from the
  South?
• PUSH FACTORS PULL FACTORS