1. The Jazz Age
A Clash of Values

2. 1. When was the Jazz Age?
After World War I (1920s)

3. 2. How did Americans Feel after World War I?
Disillusioned

4. 3. What is Disillusionment?
A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

5. Reasons for Disillusionment After World War I:

6. Reasons for Disillusionment:
A. War Casualties and Failures: million dead - 320,000 U.S. casualties - Treaty resolves little

7. Reasons for Disillusionment:
B. Economic Problems: - Rapid inflation Switch to Peacetime Economy - Recession in early 1920s

8. Reasons for Disillusionment:
C. Labor Unrest - Inflation leads to strikes - 3,600 strikes in Business uncooperative

9. Reasons for Disillusionment:
D. Racial Unrest - Great Migration - Soldiers return - Race riots in 20 cities

10. Reasons for Disillusionment:
E. The Red Scare: - Strikes blamed on “Reds” - Fear of Soviets spreading communism to other nations - Bombs in eight cities lead to Palmer Raids targeting “radicals”

11. 5. Some Major Events of the Roaring Twenties:
1920: Women’s Suffrage
1927: Charles Lindbergh crosses Atlantic
1933: Prohibition is repealed
1923: President Harding dies
Stock Market
Crashes
WWI Ends
1928: Herbert Hoover elected President
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
1919:
Prohibition Begins
Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby & Scopes Monkey Trial

12. 6. Major Themes of the Jazz Age:
Rapid change created conflict between those who embraced traditional values and those who embraced more modern values.
Diversity vs. Nativism
Science/Evolution vs. Bible/Creationism
Traditional view of women vs. the “flapper”
Restraint/Save vs. Consumerism/Spending
Wets(against Prohibition) vs. Drys (for Prohibtion)

13. 6. Major Themes of the Jazz Age:
B. Technological innovations unite the country and lead to new mass cultural trends.
Artists evolved and explored idea of modernity.
Writers evaluated the new cultural trends.
People enjoyed movies, boxing and baseball.

14. 6. Major Themes of the Jazz Age:
C. The Great Migration leads to the Harlem Renaissance, racial pride and political activism.
Jazz and the Blues spread across the nation
Northern Blacks and NAACP get political
Marcus Garvey advances “black nationalism”

15. 7. What are Traditional Values Anyway?
Focus on the past, family and community.
Conservative, religious and obedient.

16. 8. “Some Like it Hot” (1959) Effects of Prohibition?
Changing Role of Women?