1. 31 American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”

2. Essential Questions
Examine the perceived social threats that emerged in America in the 1920s and the responses to those threats.
Determine the factors that led to the post-war economic prosperity and the impact that prosperity had on consumer habits and new technologies.
Summarize changes that occurred during the 'roaring twenties' in terms of Americans' leisure habits, lifestyles, and cultural pursuits.
Outline the economic factors that indicated the prosperity of the 1920s may not continue indefinitely.

3. American Prosperity

4. American Prosperity

5. American Prosperity

6. American Prosperity
Americans prospered hugely during this time of growth and with the money delighted in consuming new products, though many were bought on credit.

7. Flaws in the Economy

8. Flaws in the Economy

9. Summary
Problems with labor, farmers, and unequal distribution of wealth foreshadowed the economic problems of the 1930s.

10. Stop, summarize, question

11. Discuss
What precursors to the Great Depression are evident from the 1920s?

12. Metropolitan Life

13. Metropolitan Life

14. Metropolitan Life

15. Metropolitan Life

16. Metropolitan Life

17. Summary
Cities were the centers of modernity and saw improvements in sanitary conditions but traffic was a new problem.
Suburbs were increasing with the widespread use of cars and the construction of roads and highways.

18. Stop, summarize, question

19. Discuss
What nickname would you give to the 1920s?

20. The Jazz Age

21. The Jazz Age

22. The Jazz Age
Georgia O'Keeffe - Pink Dish and Green Leaves Charles Demuth: Welcome to our City
Charles Sheeler - Criss-Crossed Conveyors, Ford Plant
Louis Lozowick - Minneapolis

23. The Jazz Age

24. The Jazz Age
“A sentence which begins with ‘Science says’ will generally be found to settle any argument in a social gathering or sell any article from tooth-paste to refrigerators.”

25. The Jazz Age

26. The Jazz Age

27. Summary
Though not embraced by everyone, the Jazz Age was the emergence of a brand new culture that was encouraged by African Americans, women, young people, and the college educated.

28. Stop, summarize, question

29. Women in the 1920s

30. Women in the 1920s

31. Summary Young women saw a way of expression through the flapper style.
Middle class women saw an increase in their chores and little outlet for potential frustration.

32. Discuss
To what extent did the media help and hurt women’s places in society during this era?

33. Backlash

34. Backlash

35. Backlash
“The primary reason for the restriction of the alien stream…is the necessity for purifying and keeping pure the blood of America.”
Congressman Robert Allen, Dem, WV

36. Backlash

37. Backlash

38. Backlash

39. Backlash
The KKK and anti-immigration sentiment resulted from the potentially frightening modernity that came with the Jazz Age and continued immigration and change.

40. Stop, summarize, question