1. Changing Cultural Values: the 1920s

2. New Technologies Communication changes
Communication changes
Development of the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell) and increased availability of telephones
Development of the radio and broadcast industry
Development of the movies
Ways electrification changed American life
Labor-saving products (e.g., washing machines, electric stoves, water pumps)
Electric lighting
Entertainment (e.g., radio)
Improved communications
Results of improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles
Greater mobility
Creation of jobs
Growth of transportation-related industries (e.g., road construction, oil, steel, automobile)
Movement to suburban areas
Invention of the airplane
The Wright brothers
Use of the assembly line
Henry Ford, automobile
Rise of mechanization

3. Washing Machine,
Vacuum,
Heater

4. Women & Women’s Rights Traditional Views 1920s New Views
“Cult of Domesticity”—women were content at home
Women should dress and act conservatively
19th Amendment: women’s suffrage
Flappers
Women drank and smoked and went out by themselves

5. Immigration & Foreign Policy
Traditional Views
New 1920s Views
Industrialization meant a need for immigrant workers
Immigrants were preferred to African American employees
WWI: involvement
1924: Immigration restrictions
Red Scare
US doesn’t sign the Treaty of Versailles
isolationism

6. Mass Media & Entertainment
1920s New Views
Traditional Views
Few radios
Hard news reports in newspapers
Traditionally “white” music
Radios in every household
JAZZ MUSIC
Silent movies and “talkies”
Famous Hollywood stars

7. Consumption of Alcohol
Traditional Views
New 1920s Views
Temperance Movement
18th Amendment outlawed alcohol
Drinking meant drunk husbands spending their pay and getting into fights
Bootleggers-selling alcohol illegally
Speakeasies-illegal bars
Organized Crime- aka gangsters

10. Religion & Theory of Evolution
New 1920s Views
Traditional Views
Creationism
Religious teaching was most important
Darwinism and Evolution
Scopes trial

11. Race & Discrimination Traditional Views New 1920s Views
Great Migration
Role in the Jazz Age
Continued Discrimination
Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow America
Separate but equal doctrine
Ku Klux Klan targeted African Americans
discrimination

12. The Great Migration
Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low paying.
African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the South.
African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest in search of better employment opportunities.
African Americans also experienced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.

13. You will have 20 minutes to complete atlas page on segregation
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