1. Roaring 20s

2. American Life Changes: New roles for women
Ratification of the 19th Amendment
Women elected to state and local office
Economic boom allowed women to join the workforce however in low paying jobs.
Attended college

3. New Family Roles Shifting relationships between men and women.
Basic rules that defined proper female behavior began changing.
Greater sense of equality
Break from traditional roles

4. The Flapper
Young women of the era who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior.
Chopping off their hair, raising their hemlines, wearing make-up, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and going dancing in clubs.

8. Flappers Suggested a lifestyle of great independence and freedom.
Dorothy Parker, “She’s not what Grandma used to be.”

9. Modern Trends
Popular symbol of the 1920s that was used in advertising, movies, and literature.
Why do you think the Flapper, a controversial image and lifestyle, became such a well known representative image?
New Trends and cultural changes can result in conflict over traditional values.
Modern Trends?
Select one image that represents a current social trend and write a short essay explaining and analyzing the image, how it reflects the trend, and why the image and trend are significant.

10. Urban Vs. Rural
Flapper crazy took hold in the cities and represented the growing divide between cities and country side life.
Country women either disapproved of the flapper lifestyle or considered it bold and reckless.
Older supporters of women’s rights

11. Conflicts Over Values
Rural America represented the traditional spirit of the nation: hard-working, self-reliant, religious, and independent.
Cities represented changes that threatened those values.
Rise of the KKK

12. Fundamentalism
Because of the changing times, Americans turned to religion and specifically fundamentalism.
A literal interpretation of the Bible.
Darwinism and teaching evolution in public schools.

13. Scopes Trial
A young science teacher, John Scopes, taught evolution in Tennessee and was arrested.
Clarence Darrow represented Scopes, William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution.
Contest between the competing ideas of Christianity and evolution.

14. Prohibition
Outlaw of the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol.
Hurt families and promoted crime
18th Amendment 1919

15. Bootleggers
Huge smugglings operations through seaports and across the bored from Canada.
Detroit, Michigan
People simply made their own
Foundation of great criminal empires
Speakeasies: illegal bars where alcohol was served.

16. Schools in the 1920s 1914 – 1 million students in high school
Reasons: prosperous times and higher educational standards for industry jobs.
Expanding Curriculum
Immigrant students
Taxes increase

17. Mass Entertainment of the 20s
American culture and entertainment
Media allowed the sharing of the same information and an enjoyment of the same pastimes.
News coverage – education made literacy in America rise but mass media shaped mass culture.

18. Radio 1900s military ships to aid communication.
1920 began playing records
Westinghouse Company established the 1st corporate radio station KDKA
1922 there were over 570 states across US
Break down the barriers that distance created allowing a shared culture to emgerge.

19. Movies Change in type of films available to audiences Feature films
Sound
“It’s like writing history with lightening”
Cartoon characters – Walt Disney

20. Era of Heroes
Movie Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow
Charles Lindbergh: 1st transatlantic flight
Amelia Earhart

21. Sports Heroes Radio inflamed public passion for sports
Golf – Bobby Jones
Football – Red Grange
Baseball – Babe Ruth
Tennis – Helen Wills

22. Arts of the 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald: explored the lives of the rich and critically examined the values of the wealthy.
Women and fiction writing
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
George Gershwin and music
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23. Influence of Mass Culture
Choose a particular figure discussed in this chapter and write about how their art influenced the time.
Choose a figure from this generation from a similar background (music, art, writing, sports), and discuss how their art influences this time period.