The Roaring Twenties

Fads and fashion Fad-activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion -examples: flag pole sitting, dance marathons. Most popular dance was the Charleston Can you think of any Fads today?

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Flappers Wore their hair cut short and their dresses short too. Smoked cigarettes, drank in speakeasies Flappers symbolized a sense of freedom

The look of the flappers

Jazz age: Started in New Orleans: Jazz- Combined West African rhythms, African American work Songs and spirituals and European harmonies. Louis Armstrong was an important Jazz musician.

Hemingway –lived in Paris, drove an ambulance during WWI-Italian Front New Writers Many writers were horrified by the experience of WWI. Some moved over to Europe because they were unhappy in the US. Hemingway –lived in Paris, drove an ambulance during WWI-Italian Front -wrote about his war experience F.Scott Fitzgerald-captured the roaring 20s, through the lives of wealthy young people -Great Gatsby

Harlem Renaissance Large number of African Americans-musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem NYC -Rebirth of African American culture -Langston Hughes-Poet -encourage African Americans to be proud of the heritage

Harlem Renaissance-Rebirth

Sports figures Babe Ruth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEX0eb2eBo Red Grange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGlve8jDPBo Lindbergh- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwiu6wnpq w

Lindbergh kidnapping-crime of the century Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindbergh's home in neighboring Hopewell Township. A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture. 2.Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime 3. No adult finger prints were found in the rooms surrounding the crime

Ransom letter Dear Sir! Have 50.000$ redy 25 000$ in 20$ bills 15000$ in 10$ bills and 10000$ in 5$ bills After 2–4 days we will inform you were to deliver the mony. We warn you for making anyding public or for notify the Police The child is in gut care. Indication for all letters are Signature [Symbol to right] and 3 hohls. [ Lindbergh believed that the kidnapping was perpetrated by organized crime figures. The letter, police thought, seemed written by someone who spoke German as his native language. Charles Lindbergh, at this time, used his influence to control the direction of the investigation

Controversy with the case -In the search of his apartment by police, a considerable amount of additional evidence that he was involved in the crime surfaced. A key linking piece of evidence, a piece of wood, was discovered in the attic of the home. After being examined by an expert, it was determined to be an exact match to the wood used in the construction of the ladder found at the scene of the crime. Erastus Mead Hudson was a fingerprint expert: He found that Hauptmann's fingerprints were not on the wood, even in places that the man who made the ladder would have had to touch.