1. Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?
Do Now: What is the 18th Amendment?

2. PROHIBITION AND CRIME
The 18th Amendment: banned the sale and consumption of alcohol

3. Prohibition Support
Volstead Act: law enacted by congress to enforce the 18th Amendment.
Advocates of Prohibition: Prohibition improves individuals, strengthens families, and creates a better society.

4. Those who opposed prohibition
Bootlegger: one who sells illegal alcohol.
Speakeasies: secret drink establishment .

5. “I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.”
The Mob: New bread of murders, stealing, and bootlegging. - Al Capone: Most famous mobster of the time.
“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.”

6. New MASS
CULTURE:
1920s

7. Pop Culture
Radio : brings distant events to your home (sports, stories)
Phonograph: listen to music

9. Movies:
Hollywood
Silent films
Charlie Chaplin (actor)

10. Leisure
More time to enjoy life
Picnic, games, sports

11. Age of Heroes BABE RUTH CHARLES LINBERGH Homerun hero “Great bambino”
Baseball: America’s Pastime
Pilot
Cross Atlantic (33hours)
“Lucky Lindy”

12. Women
in the
1920s

13. Social changes Flappers: risky dressed
Easier housework (vacuum, dish washer)
Joined social clubs (book)

14. “Flappers”

15. Political Changes Flappers believed they had the same rights and men
Newly elected to politics
19th amendment

16. Economic changes Enter the workforce Nurses Secretary Teachers
New consumer goods

17. Growth in African American culture: Music literature, poetry, and arts
HARLEM RENIASSANCE :
Growth in African American culture:
Music literature, poetry, and arts

18. A “New Black Conscious”
African Americans left the South for a better future
Become: ministers, Drs, lawyers, teachers.

19. The Jazz Age African American form of music known as jazz.
Radio and phonograph helped spread.
New Orleans
Louis Armstrong: Trumpet player
“Ambassador of Jazz”

20. Bridges the gap between blacks and whites
Cotton Club
One of Harlem’s most famous attractions, AA played music to white audiences
Bridges the gap between blacks and whites

21. Langston Hughes
Most powerful literary voice of his time
Poetry

22. Lasting impact Altered ways whites viewed African Americans
- The Roaring 20s ends with a financial collapses