Roaring Twenties The Jazz Age

Vocab List 19 -Anarchist -Speakeasy -Evolution -Bohemian -Mass Media -Jazz -Blues

I. Background A) Previous 3 classes 1) Survived horrific war 2) Strikes → Anti-communism → Nativist 2) Americans have disposable income $$$ 3) Cars, Planes & new products B) Popular Culture 1) Movie Theaters → Celebrities 2) Radio → Boxing & Baseball popular 3) We have more time for entertainment with labor saving home products (washing machine etc)

II. Nativism is back A) Nativism - belief that immigrants threatened American way of life. Prejudice against Germans and Communists Crime blamed on immigrants (jews & catholics) B) Ku Klux Klan - now targets jews, catholics and tries to keep america white and protestant. 3 million members

III. Protestant Movements A) Fundamentalist - takes Christian bible literally Creationist - God created man. Hated changing role of women & consumer culture B) Prohibition - 18th Amendment - no more alcohol sales Worst amendment ever -- eventually repealed 13 years later (21st Amendment) Created Organized Crime by smuggling liquor Al Capone - Mob boss, paid off law enforcement to turn blind eye to his empire. Died of syphilis.

IIIb. Flappers Why were Fundamentalist so mad? Flappers Young rebellious women began keeping hair and skirts short + smoke/drank in public + used birth control + used make up and fashion

IV. Lost Generation of Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald - coined term “Jazz Age” Wrote Great Gatsby Wrote the Case of Benjamin Button - Old to Young Criticized upper classes Ernest Hemingway - Fought in WW1 For Whom the Bell Tolls - about Spanish Civil War The Old Man and the Sea - Cuban Fisherman A Farewell to Arms - about WW1

Ernest Hemingway

V. African American Influence A) Great Migration - thousands move north for better work B) Harlem Renaissance - artistic development, racial pride, and political organization of African Americans Rejected stereotypes and prejudice Fought back C) Politics Fought against discrimination, segregation and lynching Black Nationalism - power through education, pride and unity.

Duke Ellington Video

VI. Notable African Americans Langston Hughes - Leader of Harlem Renaissance Claude McKay - Home to Harlem, famous writer W.E.B Du Bois - Harvard Educated, Co-Founder of NAACP, fought racism Marcus Garvey – most inflential, promoted Negro nationalism, the back-to-Africa movement and FBI had him deported back to Jamaica Duke Ellington - biggest name in Jazz, played at Cotton Club Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Garveys Black Star Line