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1 AIM: How did American life change in the 1920s?

2 The Roaring 20’s, the “Jazz Age,” the “Golden Twenties” War is over- let’s party!!!

3 Prohibition (18th amendment)
Create speakeasies (secret bars that illegally sold alcohol)

4 Organized Crime Bribery of police The “Mafia” (gang)
Mafia wars sought control of the booze market Chicago

5 Organized Crime Al Capone -gangster who made millions from bootlegging: illegally selling alcohol

6 Prosperity (wealth) of the 1920s
Cars: more people buying inexpensive cars Electricity: created new household products like appliances Vacuum cleaners! Washing machines!

7 Mass-Consumption Advertising  make people want more and more!
Buying on “margin” : credit cards “Buy now, pay later!!!”

8 Leisure Activities- Have fun!
Sports Babe Ruth (baseball) Jack Dempsey (boxer)

9 Planes (Aviation) Charles “Lucky” Lindbergh (1927) 1st to fly over the Atlantic Ocean from LI to Paris

10 Mass Media & Communication
Radio-Created a “national culture” everyone listens to the same thing

11 Mass Media & Movies! Hollywood & movie stars are made
Silent films Charlie Chaplin “Talkie” films 1 national culture Immigrants learn English from the movies!

12 The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance
New attitudes- party on! URBANIZATION 1920 census revealed that more than ½ the population lived in urban cities

13 Women Greater sense of equality working Changes in manners and morals
Question traditional roles as mothers

14 Flapper Short skirts Bobbed haircut Listened to jazz
Drank and smoked in public “liberated” (free)

15 The Jazz Age Celebrating African-Americans
New rhythms and improvisation Jazz clubs- “Cotton Club” in NYC

16 Harlem Renaissance pride in A.A. culture “rebirth” = Renaissance
new demands for equality Langston Hughes (poet): I, Too, Sing America

17 Youth Culture “Fads” Flagpole sitting Marathon dancing
The “Charleston” dance

18 The “Lost” Generation New group of writers after WWI
Questioned American morals F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby showing how people waste money

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20 How did American life change in the 1920s?
2. Did the 1920s “roar” or was it more of a “yawn?”

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