1. Notes by your peers separated by movie clips, music, and cartoons!!
The Roaring Twenties
Notes by your peers separated by movie clips, music, and cartoons!!

2. The Flapper
Significance: Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners
Flapper - Brash women who wore short skirts, cut their hair, wore make up, listened to jazz, breaking social norms

3. Automotive
Significance:
Increase production & advance economy  people buying on credit & installment plans
Mass Production –faster, more efficient means of producing identical products
Henry Ford – mass produced the Model T (automobile) – makes it affordable to everyday Americans
Assembly Line – a means of production in which the product is on an conveyor belt and assembled piece by piece
Henry Ford regarding the Model T, “You can
buy any one you want, so long as its black”

4. Significance: Increase communication, create national unity/culture
Mass Media
Significance: Increase communication, create national unity/culture
The Jazz Singer – first movie with sound (racist)
Talkies –movies with sound
NBC – (National Broadcasting Company) national radio station

5. Discrimination prevails - we are not progressing as a nation on race.
Hate Groups
Significance:
Discrimination prevails - we are not progressing as a nation on race.
Knights of Mary Phagan – lynched Leo Frank (Jew), part of the recreation of the KKK
KKK – white supremacist group – terrorize anyone who is NOT white and protestant
Red Summer – race riots break out in 25 cities after WWI
Knights of Mary Phagan: go to stone mountain with former Klan members and recreate or reinitiate the klan

6. Prohibition 18th Amendment – prohibition of alcohol
Significance: Causes crime / illegal activity
- Gangs control the cities
Prohibition
18th Amendment – prohibition of alcohol
Speakeasies – illegal bar where you can buy alcohol
Al Capone – notorious gangster who is going to profit from prohibition

7. Significance: Fear of communism  immigrant discrimination & restrictions
Immigration
Communism – gov’t system where the gov’t owns everything, and everyone shares (anti- capitalism)
Sacco and Vanzzetti – they robbed a guard and killed, they go to jail, and are executed (only convicted b/c immigrants)
Red Scare – people are afraid of the spread of communism

8. Significance: New cultural expression, reduce racial tension
Jazz Age
Significance: New cultural expression, reduce racial tension
improvisation - spontaneous ("on the fly“) composing music
Louis Armstrong – famous jazz trumpeter, becomes a leader in the jazz movement
Cotton Club – club for white people to see jazz singers, brings AA culture into mainstream America

9. Significance: Develop of AA culture, encourage black pride
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance – home to AA literary awakening
Langston Hughes – poet of Harlem, wrote about the good and bad of AA lives
The New Negro – book written by Alain Locke, celebrate AA culture

10. Significance: Development of American culture / unity
Popular Music
Significance: Development of American culture / unity
Irving Berlin – song writer who made a new kind of music that changes America ( I’m dreaming of a white Christmas & Anything you can do I can do better)
Tin Pan Alley – producers of jazz music, birthplace of American popular music
Charleston- new dance, with beats of popular ragtime music

11. Now Let’s Answer the EQ!!!
Does the term ‘Roaring 20s’ appropriately describe the time period?
i.e., what are the positives and negatives associated with the 20s?

12. Yes (positives)
No (negatives)
Soc/art
Flapper = freer behaviors and styles… independent woman
Mass Media: NBC creates national culture (American unity)
Popular music: blending of black and white culture; dance focuses on individual
Jazz Age: blending of black and white culture
Literature: Harlem celebrates black culture
Flapper: inept/ drunk/ strumpets/ not working
Mass Media – reinforces stereotypes (lil sambo – jazz singer)
Hate Groups: rise of KKK and race riots
Immigrant relations: red scare leads to discrimination of immigrants
Pol
5. Prohibition leads to organized crime and gang control of city… backlash to progressives
Eco
6. Mass Production: inc in credit and consumerism… affordable cars inc suburban sprawl

14. Yes (positives)
No (negatives)
Soc/art
Flapper:
2. Mass Media:
Popular music:
Jazz Age:
5. Literature:
Mass Media:
3. Hate Groups:
4. Immigrant relations:
Pol
5. Prohibition:
Eco
6. Mass Production: