1. ROARING TWENTIES Sec. 24-4 Pages 713-719
Define: Flapper – mass media – expatriate – Prohibition – nativism – quota –evolution
Identify: Charles Lindbergh – Hollywood boom
– Jazz singers – musicians – Harlem Renaissance - Emergency Quota Act – Scopes Trial –
Election of 1928

2. ROARING TWENTIES
1926- Gertrude Ederle swam across English Channel – broke men’s record - 14 ½ hrs.
May 1927 – Charles Lindbergh solo flight – flew Spirit of St. Louis across Atlantic to Paris

3. Flappers
Carefree young women - wore makeup- short skirts – short haircuts –smoked, danced, voted
New freedoms challenged traditional roles

4. Entertainment
Mass media – newspapers, radio, tabloids, phonograph records, movies (talkies -with sound)
Jazz Singer- first movie with sound
Radio – news programs, variety shows, country, sports, comedies
Financed by commercials
Sports – Babe Ruth (baseball) –
Red Grange (football)
Bobby Jones( golf)
Crossword puzzles, board games, dance contest, Miss America pageant

5. JAZZ AGE
Blend of ragtime and blues – rhythms – improvisations by African Americans- grew out of work songs and typical music of African-Americans
Louis Armstrong- Jazz musician ( trumpeter)
Duke Ellington (pianist)
Bessie Smith (singer)

6. SUMMARIZE
Name given to young rebellious woman in 1920s who broke away from traditional ideas
First movie with sound in 1920s
Person who flew solo flight from US to Paris
First woman who swam English Channel and broke men’s record.
List several entertainment ideas that grew in the 1920s.

7. Harlem Renaissance
Movement of African American culture – pride – expressed in music and writing
Started in Harlem, NYC
Langston Hughes (poet)
Zora Neale Hurston
( writer)
Claude McKay (poet)

8. Lost Generation of Writers
Some writers questioned American values – left country to live abroad
Expatriates- people who chose to live in another country
Gertrude Stein – called these writers the “Lost Generation”
F. Scott Fitzgerald – write about WWI – people damaged by poverty
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises – A Farewell of Arms – postwar Europe
Sinclair Lewis – stayed in US – Main Street - Babbit

9. PROHIBITION
th Amendment –illegal to make, sell, transfer alcohol – total ban
Volstead Act – Congress would enforce 18th Amendment
Succeeded in South and Midwest areas
Dry county – no alcohol allowed
Cities had harder time enforcing Prohibition – started crime wars
Speakeasy – illegal bar/club – used password to enter
Bootlegging – making/selling illegal alcohol
st Amendment repealed (cancelled) the
18th Amendment

10. Organized Crime Crime mobs took over bootlegging
Al “Scarface” Capone – Public Enemy #1 controlled Chicago – made $60 million/yr on selling illegal alcohol
Johnny Torrio, Bugs Moran, the O’Banions
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre – 1929 – Capone had henchman, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn kill Bugs Moran and O’Banions in a set up raid as they delivered alcohol
Capone had alibi- in Florida at time of murder
1931- Given 11 yrs in jail for tax evasion

11. SUMMARIZE
Name given to new music by African Americans that blended ragtime and blues
Name given to rebirth of African American expression in writing and music in NYC
Vocab term – people who chose to live in another country
Vocab term – illegal bar
Vocab term – making & selling illegal alcohol
Who was Public Enemy #1 in Chicago in 1920s who ordered St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?

12. Nativism Belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners
Revival of KKK – targeted African-Americans, Catholics, Jews and immigrants
KKK spread beyond South – Indiana, Oregon
Membership declined in 1920s due to scandals –murders of KKK leaders
Anti-immigrant prejudice directed at southern and eastern Europeans and Asians

13. IMMIGRATION
Emergency Quota Act (1921) – began a quota (limit number allowed to enter from a country)
3% of national group would be admitted
Favored groups from northern & western European immigrants
National Origins Act (1924) – reduced quota to 2% - based on 1890 census
Excluded Japanese immigrants – still allowed Mexicans - Canadians

14. Scopes Trial
1925- Tennessee – law making it illegal to teach evolution (scientific theory that humans evolved over time) – contradicted fundamental view of Bible
John Scopes – Bio teacher tested law – supported by ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) - defended by Clarence Darrow
Prosecuting Atty - Wm. Jennings Bryan
Scopes lost case – later overturned by Tenn. Sup. Court
Ruling showed that rural people saw religious faith more important than science.

15. Election of 1928 Republican – Herbert Hoover –
Belgian Relief WWI – Sec. of
Commerce
Democrat – Alfred Smith – NY Gov
Catholic -immigrant son – opposed Prohibition
1928 Election was a contest of:
Rural vs urban
Nativism vs. foreign influence
No alcohol vs alcohol
Protestants vs Catholics
Traditional values vs modern values

16. 1928 Election Map

17. SUMMARIZE
Vocab term – Belief that Americans born in US are superior to foreigners
Vocab term – limit number allowed to enter US from a certain country
Vocab term – scientific theory that humans evolved over time
Famous case where above term was challenged . Who were the lawyers?
Who were candidates in 1928 election? What were some of the issues they favored?