Changing Cultural Values: the 1920s
New Technologies Communication changes Communication changes Development of the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell) and increased availability of telephones Development of the radio and broadcast industry Development of the movies Ways electrification changed American life Labor-saving products (e.g., washing machines, electric stoves, water pumps) Electric lighting Entertainment (e.g., radio) Improved communications Results of improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles Greater mobility Creation of jobs Growth of transportation-related industries (e.g., road construction, oil, steel, automobile) Movement to suburban areas Invention of the airplane The Wright brothers Use of the assembly line Henry Ford, automobile Rise of mechanization
Washing Machine, Vacuum, Heater
Women & Women’s Rights Traditional Views 1920s New Views “Cult of Domesticity”—women were content at home Women should dress and act conservatively 19th Amendment: women’s suffrage Flappers Women drank and smoked and went out by themselves
Immigration & Foreign Policy Traditional Views New 1920s Views Industrialization meant a need for immigrant workers Immigrants were preferred to African American employees WWI: involvement 1924: Immigration restrictions Red Scare US doesn’t sign the Treaty of Versailles isolationism
Mass Media & Entertainment 1920s New Views Traditional Views Few radios Hard news reports in newspapers Traditionally “white” music Radios in every household JAZZ MUSIC Silent movies and “talkies” Famous Hollywood stars
Consumption of Alcohol Traditional Views New 1920s Views Temperance Movement 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol Drinking meant drunk husbands spending their pay and getting into fights Bootleggers-selling alcohol illegally Speakeasies-illegal bars Organized Crime- aka gangsters
Religion & Theory of Evolution New 1920s Views Traditional Views Creationism Religious teaching was most important Darwinism and Evolution Scopes trial
Race & Discrimination Traditional Views New 1920s Views Great Migration Role in the Jazz Age Continued Discrimination Harlem Renaissance Jim Crow America Separate but equal doctrine Ku Klux Klan targeted African Americans discrimination
The Great Migration Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low paying. African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the South. African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest in search of better employment opportunities. African Americans also experienced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.
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