1. Think: What are your favourite 5 facts about 1920s America?
Pair: share your opinion with the person sitting next to you
Square: With your table, discuss
Your opinion.
Decide which 2 facts that you are going to share with the class.

2. What is meant by the term ‘Roaring 20s?
America Overview

3. ‘The Roaring Twenties’
In the aftermath of the war people were determined to have fun.
They had more money and more leisure time.
Women were freer than ever
The entertainment industry boomed.
The 1920s were the golden age for Hollywood films.
It was also the Jazz Age with its crazes for new music and dances.

4. Women
Work: Many women had taken over jobs traditionally reserved for men (such as manufacturing), and the number of working women increased by 25%; many went to be teachers and secretaries.
Flappers:  dumped the old restrictive fashions, corsets etc. in favour of short skirts, short hair, and the flat-chested look.   Many of them wore men's clothing.   They smoked, drank, used make-up, played tennis, and danced wildly in jazz clubs.  

5. Entertainment: Films
*movie actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolf Valentino and Mary Pickford became 'stars'.
●   in 1927,The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, was the first 'talkie'.  
●   a well-known early two-colour film was The Toll of the Sea (1922) and two-colour films were common by the end of the 1920s; after 1932, films were produced in three-colour technicolour.
●   Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney in 1928 (who released Snow White in colour in 1937).
●   by 1930, 100 million Americans went to the movies every week.
●   companies like United Artists and MGM produced hundreds of films a year.

6. Entertainment: Jazz
●   Jazz was first played in New Orleans by black musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.  They played in the night clubs of towns like Chicago and New York.
●   The invention of radio and the phonograph (record player) made it available in people's homes.   The first jazz record was made in 1917 by the Dixieland Jazz Band.  
●   Because it was often played in speakeasies (bars), by black musicians, it was seen as wild and exciting - which soon made it very popular.
●   Jazz music contributed to many of the social developments of the age - baggy trousers and short skirts, wild dancing such as the Black Bottom.

7. KKK
An organisation to maintain WASPs supremacy, which had 5 million members by 1925.   Many supporters were poor whites, who did not want Black Americans to be their equals/fear they would take their jobs, but many were racism wealthy white Americans.   They wore white sheets and hoods, and marched with burning crosses.   They spoke with each other in a secret language which they called 'Klonversations'.   They attacked, tortured and killed Black Americans, but also Jews and Catholics and 'immoral' people such as alcoholics.

8. Prohibition
In 1920, the 18th Amendment was passed making the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal. But many people in this time of 'Prohibition' continued to drink and gangsters made enormous amounts of money from supplying illegal liquor.
Prohibition had failed. Here are six reasons why:
1.There weren't enough Prohibition agents to enforce the law - only 1,500 in 1920.
2.The size of America's boundaries made it hard for these agents to control smuggling by bootleggers.
3.The low salary paid to the agents made it easy to bribe them.
4.Many Americans never gave their support to Prohibition and were willing to drink in speakeasies - bars that claimed to sell soft drinks, but served alcohol behind the scenes.
5.Gangsters such as Al Capone made money from organised crime.
6.Protection rackets, organised crime and gangland murders were more common during Prohibition than when alcohol could be bought legally.

9. Gangsters
Organised crime stepped in to take over from the breweries and spirits manufacturers:
a.  They ran the speakeasies, and bootlegging.
b.  They also ran protection rackets, prostitution and drug-running.
c.  They bribed trade union leaders, police, lawyers, judges and even Senators.
d.  The most famous gangster was Al Capone, who earned $100,000 a year from beer sales alone, ran a private army of more than 700 mobsters, and is thought to have murdered more than 200 opponents.
e.  They fought with each other for control of their 'territory' - the most famous incident was the
St Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when 'torpedoes' from Capone's gang shot dead 7 members of Bugs Moran's gang.   

10. Sports
Sports which grew and flourished in the nineteen twenties due to unprecedented publicity and promotion included baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, football and boxing. Newspapers, magazines, radio and movies all played a role in boosting the profile of sport and the sporting giants.
The 1920's was a transition period for many sports. Sports that had up until that time been largely amateur events caught the eye of promoters who could see an opportunity to capitalize and make money. The professional football league, golf tours, and tennis circuit were organized. Media publicity ensured large crowds and guaranteed the financial success of the ventures, allowing new stadiums to be built and providing steadily increasing salaries for the sports stars.

11. Design a poster which explains a theme of 1920s USA
In pairs:
Design a poster which explains a theme of 1920s USA
Poster should not have more than 10 words (the title does not count). .

12. One person becomes the ‘keeper of the poster’ and should explain the poster to your class mates. The other – should visit each station and make notes.
Revise the information.
Quick fire Quiz!