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The Roaring Twenties U.S. Society in the 1920's

Post-War America: "The 1920's" Women's Changing Roles Flapper Image Working Women Suffrage (19th Amendment) Gangsters & Crime Prohibition (18th Amendment) Organized Crime The "Speakeasy" The Jazz Age Culture Notable Musicians The Business Boom Consumer Economy & Credit Rise in Productivity Henry Ford (Automobiles) African-American Life Harlem Renaissance Ku Klux Klan "The Red Scare" Sacco & Vanzetti Immigration Restrictions

The Role of Women in the 1920's Flappers Stylish new dresses Hemlines change from 9 inches above ground to above the knee! Changes social behavior New hairstyles      Before                     After 19th Amendment - Suffrage Women's Right to Vote Ratified in 1920 Began in newly added western states

Emergence of the Consumer Economy Factors that sparked buying: higher wages, clever advertising, new products, lower costs, available credit electric power demand surged - washers, dryers, vacuums, etc.. Henry Ford's "Model-T"  Assembly Line -  specialized labor mass production

Gangsters & Prohibition 18th Amendment -  Prohibition     Effects of... Made Alcohol Illegal  Increased Bootlegging Illegal bars called "Speakeasies" flourished Organized Crime - Gangsters Al Capone (Scarface) Bootlegging Emergence of F.B.I. J. Edgar Hoover St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The Age of Jazz Cultural Influence Notable Musicians Louis Armstrong Grew out of African-American music in the south (ragtime & blues - New Orleans) Many questioned morality of... Dance clubs Jazz clubs "Suggestive dancing" Affected all arts... Poetry Painting Notable Musicians Louis Armstrong George Gershwin Duke Ellington Benny Goodman Cab Calloway Bessie Smith

Life of African-Americans in the 1920's The Harlem Renaissance Cultural Center in NYC Jazz & Literary Awakening Langston Hughes (poet) Claude McKay Countee Cullen Population Boom Revival of Ku Klux Klan White Supremacist Group Membership moved north Crimes against: African-Americans, Jews, Catholics, & Immigrants Rise of NAACP

The Red Scare Fear of Communists & Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti Italian Immigrants Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti Both Anarchists Both Arrested for armed robbery Many Americans questioned their arrest blamed for being immigrants blamed for radical beliefs Unfair jury found them guilty Higher courts upheld verdict Sentenced to death despite protests Immigration Restrictions More Americans turned to "Nativism" tolerance of native born, Protestant, white Americans Predjudices grew against... African Americans Mexican Americans Catholics Jews Other Immigrants Immigration Restriction Act Passed by Congress - 1924 Restricts number of immigrants entering the country specifically southern & eastern Europe

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