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THE ROARING TWENTIES The American Age of Ballyhoo The Jazz Age

Why were the 1920s the “Roaring Twenties”? - time of rapid change - people felt unsettled - technological and scientific breakthroughs - widening split between urban and rural life - morality seemed to be changing in the disillusionment following WWI

Changes and experiments in 1920 society -Relaxed sense of morality - the clash over evolution; the Scopes trial - the “Noble Experiment” – prohibition - suffragettes - Margaret Sanger -Urbanization - racial tensions; the Klun Klux Klan’s resurgence - the Harlem Renaissance

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre King of the Bootleggers, Al Capone

Suffragettes marching infavor of the 19 th Amendment

John T. Scopes Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan

Marcus Garvey Madame CJ Walker Duke Ellington W.E.B. DuBose Zora Neal Hurston Langston Hughes

Education and Entertainment -Changes in public schools - the challenge of immigrant children in schools - the popularity of silent movies - Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino -Important films The Great Train Robbery Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith) The Jazz Singer - Odd fads

The “It Girl” – Clara Bow Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Charlie Chaplin The Little Tramp

-The mass media continued to expand - more magazines and newspapers - the importance of radio s literature included several key themes - materialism; F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis, Main Street and Babbitt - anti-war themes; Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms - dehumanization of modern era; T.S. Elliot, The Wasteland

1920s Heroes Charles Lindbergh- solo flight across Atlantic Ocean Herman “Babe” Ruth – Sultan of Swat Red Grange – the “Galloping Ghost” Knute Rockne- Notre Dame coach Jack Dempsey – boxing champion Bobby Jones – golf champion Tennis and horse racing also popular sports Spectator sports became an American passion

Charles Lindbergh And Babe Ruth

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