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1 1920’s #9: Changing Culture Besides suffrage, how else did women’s lives change in the 1920s? What disease killed millions at the end of the 1910s? What is the name for people who illegally sold alcohol in the 20’s? What was the name for the secret clubs during Prohibition?

2 Scopes “Monkey” Trial 1925: Tennessee outlawed teaching evolution
John T. Scopes – teaches it (on purpose) Trial Wm Jennings Bryan: defends TN law / creationism Clarence Darrow and ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) defends Scopes Scopes loses / SC overturns Scopes conviction Law will stand

3 Wage Levels and the Price of a Ford Model T
Cars on the Road 1919 1.9 million 6.7 million 1929 5.6 million 27 million Sales of Radios 1922 $60 million 1929 $842.6 million Wage Levels and the Price of a Ford Model T Average Earnings Price of a Model T 1912 $592 $600 1914 $627 $490 1916 $708 $360 1924 $1,303 $290 Number of Radios 1900 18 per 1,000 people 1910 82 per 1,000 people 1920 123 per 1,000 people 1930 163 per 1,000 people

4 Booming Economy! 20s = prosperous, incomes go up
To pay for new consumer goods, often ppl put it on credit: buy now, pay later What can be the problem with credit? “Business of America is business” = Pres Calvin Coolidge

5 Modern Transportation
Cars became cheaper Planes develop Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart $290 in 1924 "Americans can have any kind of car they want, and any color they want, as long as it's a Ford, and as long as it's black.” -Henry Ford

6 Mass entertainment: Radio invented Movies: Sports:
“Shows” – soap operas, etc. Movies: 1927: “Talkies” : movies with sound Sports: Baseball, Football How would these things change lives? Do we still use these things today?

7 Rudolph Valentino, silent film star
Pop Culture Americans tuned into same shows It created heroes, movie stars, radio legends, etc. = Pop Culture Rudolph Valentino, silent film star

8 Music Jazz Age: New dances: Charleston

9 Women Growing freedom for women More women & men going to college
More careers for women Not just daughter – wife – mother Single woman – worked, dated, had fun

10 Women Flappers: women who usually cut their hair into a “bob”, wore short dresses, & partied Versus

11 20’s #6: Women – pg 441 The Flapper: Describe a flapper. What did she wear, do her hair, etc? Double Stand: Were young people as rebellious as it appeared? How did dating change in the 1920s? New Work…(pg 442): What kind of jobs were women getting? List 3-4 How did they break some stereotypes? What jobs were they NOT getting? Describe women’s pay. Changing Family: How did the birthrate change? How was modern life more convenient? Answer question #4 on pg. 443. Fill in the “flaps”: movies and books (see page ) On back of flaps answer: 1. How did life change for women in 1920s? 2. How are things the same today as in the 1920s and how are they different?

12 Hall of Fame Nominees Charles Lindbergh (pilot) Amelia Earhart (pilot)
Flapper Babe Ruth (baseball) Jack Dempsey (boxing) Charlie Chaplin (actor) Henry Ford (car) Langston Hughes (poet) F. Scott Fitzgerald Earnest Hemingway Georgia O’Keefe (artist) Duke Ellington (musician) Bessie Smith (musician) Louis Armstrong (musician) William Johnson (artist) Warren Harding (president) Calvin Coolidge (president) Sacco and Vanzetti Williams Jennings Bryan (Scopes Trial) Clarence Darrow (Scopes Trial)

13 1920s Hall of Fame Who is the most important person from the 1920s?
Create a piece of art in their honor: Poem Song (preferably jazz) A radio ad (only talking) A silent movie (no talking!) For your piece of art: Write the poem, song, or a script. One paragraph on why this important is the most important and deserves to be in our hall of fame.

14 Balderdash! Goal: to correctly guess the definition of a 1920s slang word Points earned for each correct definition Most points = winner Scorecard: put each player’s name on a paper and tally points for each round

15 Balderdash! 1 person will pick a term and look at the definition. Do NOT let anyone else see the definition! You will write down the correct definition on a card. Everyone else will guess at what the definition is and write it down on a card. Put cards in middle & shuffle. Person who knows the definition will read all of them. Everyone else will decide which answer is correct Anyone who guesses the correct definition wins a point. Repeat!

16 Bump off Something great Murder Run away A flapper

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