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The Roaring 20s The Jazz Age

Unit Objectives To learn what made the 1920s the “Roaring 20s” To learn why the 1920s was such a prosperous decade

Why was the decade called the “Roaring Twenties”? Rise of New Industries:   CONSUMER GOODS INDUSTRY; AUTOMOBILE REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN LIFE (VACATIONS, COMMUTING, SUBURBS); AIRLINE INDUSTRY

Strong Economy: TIME OF GREAT PROSPERITY, PEOPLE HAD DISPOSABLE INCOME FOR FIRST TIME AND NEW THINGS TO DO WITH IT

Focus became having a good time (people wanted to forget horrors of WWI) Materialism: INTEREST IN MONEY AND MATERIAL GOODS Entertainment: PEOPLE HAD MONEY TO SPEND & NEW WAYS TO SPEND IT (SPORTS, MOVIES, RADIO, SHOPPING CENTERS, NEW INVENTIONS LIKE CAR, AIRPLANE, REFRIGERATOR)

1920’s Society/Culture New Morality: Traditional beliefs were challenged while youth and personal freedom were glorified -Automobile gave the youth more freedom -Role of women changed: MORE WOMEN IN WORKPLACE; WOMEN BEGAN TO REBEL AGAINST OLD TRADITIONAL SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS -Flappers: YOUNG FEMALE REBELS

Flappers

Fundamentalism: -Religious movement -Followers feared the impact of the 20s on the morality of society -They believed the Bible was literally true -They opposed Darwin’s Theory of Evolution or the teaching of it in public schools

Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) Issue: A TENNESSEE TEACHER TAUGHT EVOLUTION AFTER THE STATE HAD OUTLAWED IT Who? -John Scopes: THE TEACHER -William Jennings Bryan: PROSECUTOR -Clarence Darrow: DEFENSE ATTORNEY

Darrow, Bryan, Scopes

Scopes Monkey Trial The Result: -SCOPES FOUND GUILTY AND FINED $100 -THE CONVICTION WAS LATER OVERTURNED Impact: MADE FUNDAMENTALISTS SEEM EXTREME AND LED TO THEIR DECLINE

Many social improvements (education, medicine, improved status of African-Americans and women—19th Amendment) Harlem Renaissance (ID): PERIOD OF GROWTH IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE, PARTICULARLY JAZZ (COTTON CLUB)  

Charles Lindbergh: BECAME FAMOUS AFTER FLYING SOLO ACROSS ATLANTIC (“LUCKY LINDY”); LOST A CHILD TO KIDNAPPING/MURDER  

1920’s Politics Isolationism (ID): AMERICA STAYED OUT OF WORLD AFFAIRS UNLESS THEY HAD DIRECT IMPACT ON AMERICA (PUBLIC TURNED OFF BY WWI EXPERIENCE) Kellogg-Briand Pact: INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT TO BAN WAR

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