1. The Roaring Twenties Life in the Modern Era

2. Today’s Agenda Objective: To evaluate the events and movements which led the United States to break from the past and move towards the future in the 1920s. Essential Skill: To explicitly assess information and draw conclusions.

3. The Roaring 20’s Jazz Age Was the Bee’s Knees!

4. Jazz: Original American Music Combo of African rhythms, blues, ragtime and European-pop music Improvisation, syncopated music Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith Cotton Club, Chicago, NOLA, St. Louis

5. Harlem Renaissance Flowering of African Amer. culture People: Langston Hughes and Alain Locke Marcus Garvey = self- sufficiency & Back to Africa Langston Hughes Marcus Garvey “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” -William H. Johnson

6. THE FLAPPER by Dorothy Parker The Playful flapper here we see, The fairest of the fair. She's not what Grandma used to be, -- You might say, au contraire. Her girlish ways may make a stir, Her manners cause a scene, But there is no more harm in her Than in a submarine. She nightly knocks for many a goal The usual dancing men. Her speed is great, but her control Is something else again. All spotlights focus on her pranks. All tongues her prowess herald. For which she well may render thanks To God and Scott Fitzgerald. Her golden rule is plain enough - Just get them young and treat them rough.

7. Women 19 th Amendment: Right to vote Birth Control: Margaret Sanger ERA = Alice Paul More educ. and jobs Changing morality and domesticity = New Woman

8. Celebrity Culture: Heroes: Sports = Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jack Dempsey Hollywood = Charlie Chaplin Aviation = Charles Lindberg & Amelia Earhart What do these celebrities reveal about the 20s? Mass Media Individual Man v. Machine Optimism

9. 1920s Authors= “Lost Generation” AuthorWorkThemes F Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis

10. 1920s Authors = “Lost Generation” AuthorWorkThemes F Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby-Jazz Age, emptiness, flappers & bootleggers -American Dream Ernest Hemingway Sun Also Rises & A Farewell to Arms -Disillusionment over war, doomed lovers - short unadorned sentences Sinclair LewisMain Street- Satire of small town America

11. “Old” Culture“New” Culture Emphasized Production Emphasized Consumption TraditionModernity ScarcityAbundance ReligionScience Idealized the PastLooked to the Future Local CultureMass Culture RuralUrban CharacterImage American Zeitgeist

12. Automobile How did Ford do it? Assembly Line: Apply conveyor belt to cars, simple tasks Standardized vehicles Worker’s Contract: $5 a day to stay Model T: afFORDable to Middle and Upper class Price: 1909-1924 price dropped 66% In Ford We Trust

13. “No job is particularly hard, if you divide it into small parts” “You can get a Model T in any color, so long as it is black” -Henry Ford

14. Ads

15. If you could ban something at Conestoga, what would it be? Would there be any unintended consequences?

16. Prohibition

17. Laws: 18 th Amendment (1919) & The Volstead Act Reasons? Prohibition

18. Wets vs. Drys Organized Crime Al Capone Bootleggers ‘Speakeasies’ St. Valentine’s Day massacre Corruption and difficult enforcement Other Effects: Dangerous “Bathtub Gin” Loss of rights Overall consumption decreased Less Cirrhosis & alcohol related death Save $

20. Why repeal prohibition? 1933- 21 st Amendment

21. Red Scare Origin: Bolshevik Rev. 100% Americanism Bombs 1919-20

22. The Red Scare Results: Palmer Raids The Buford

23. Immigration and KKK (1921) National Quota Act (1924) Nat. Origins Act (1927) Cap at 150,000

24. Major Trials

25. Sacco and Vanzetti

26. Scopes Trial: “Monkey Trial” Film clips from Inherit the Wind Darrow speaks Bryan on the Stand Scopes

27. Scottsboro Boys Black men accused of raping white women Several trials, only 5 found guilty Discrimination in court system

28. “Old” Culture“New” Culture Emphasized Production Emphasized Consumption TraditionModernity ScarcityAbundance ReligionScience Idealized the PastLooked to the Future Local CultureMass Culture RuralUrban SubstanceImage