The Roaring Twenties CSS 11.5 Unit 4—Chapter 7 The Roaring Twenties CSS 11.5

Daily Start 3 What was the first silent movie with a plot? What was the first “talkie” called? Who is Babe Ruth? What was a flapper? What did the Equal Rights Amendment do for women?

A New Mass Culture EQ: How did the new mass culture reflect technological and social changes?

Rise off Mass Media – Radio and Movies created a national rather than regional culture encouraged consumption new avenues for fame Phonograph, 1877 allowed music and speeches to spread nation wide mass production became available in the 1890s Silent Movies silent movies vied with radio for popularity serial films were followed like TV today

Mass Media – Birth of Cinema Great Train Robbery, 1903 this 12-minute film was one of the first to tell a story it was proceeded by the shorter nickelodeon Birth of a Nation, 1915 D.W. Griffith showed the KKK saving America from blacks after the Civil War the NAACP protested the film it led to violence and even killing highest box office of the silent movie era ($10 million) equivalent of $200 million today Jazz Singer, 1927 first of the “talkies” and the end of the silent-movie era starred Al Jolson in black face

Mass Media – The American Past-Time Baseball became immensely popular with the advent of radio Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb the 1919 Black Sox scandal was bigger than Tea Pot Dome It became “America’s Pastime” Babe Ruth (The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat) paid more than the President greatest baseball player of all time lifetime batting average .342, 714 home runs G AB R H HR RBI BB SO Avg. OBP SLG 2,503 8,398 2,174 2,874 714 2,217 2,062 1,330 .342 .472 .690

Mass Media – America Leads the way Charles Lindbergh (Lucky Lindy) first solo flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris in 1927 became the first Time Man of the Year in 1927 pioneered commercial aviation his baby son was kidnapped and murdered in 1932 ten-week search led to false negotiations and ultimately the baby’s body was found kidnapping became a federal offense

Women’s Rights Changes in Employment for Women some broke into journalism, aviation, medicine, and the law most women still worked in domestic service and manufacturing The Flapper (The New Woman) symbol of new feminine freedom followed the same rules as men shorter hair, shorter hemlines, makeup

Women’s Rights Nineteenth Amendment, 1920 women voters helped elect female governors in WY and TX and the first female senator originally most female voters supported the Republican Party but today most support the Democrats Equal Rights Amendment, 1924 (ERA) attempted to require equality under the Constitution most states require it today and it failed in the 1970s child custody, divorce, and equal pay were still major issues Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel in 1926 at the age of 21 (only 5 men had done it) she swam over 20 miles in just over 14 hours

Modernism vs. Fundamentalism new emphasis on science and secular (non-religious) values strongest in urban areas Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

Modernism in Art and Literature The Lost Generation writers from the 1920s who had become disillusioned by the romanticism of the late 1800s they questioned tradition, religion, and society Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Modernism