1. WWI had just ended with the deaths of millions of people
WWI had just ended with the deaths of millions of people. 126,000 from the U.S.
The Spanish Flu had killed 30 million worldwide. 500,000 in the U.S.
Hatred toward Germans was subsiding but the threat of Communism was taking over.
What affects do you think the above would have the culture, manners, and morals of the 1920s? What do you think the decade will be like? Explain in a few sentences.

2. The “Business” of America (Legal and Illegal)

3. 1920s Productivity More Jobs and more productivity Growing cities
More suburbs with more need for roads
Building and road construction boom

4. Henry Ford Movable production line.
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Movable production line.
1925-Car every 10 seconds (years before it took 14 hours)
Industries that boomed because of the car industry- steel, rubber, oil, machine tools, and road building

5. Henry Ford’s way 4
Tried to control the lives of workers through raises and incentives for moral behavior
$5 day and 40-hour 5 day work week.
Immigrants and minorities hired
Middle class grows

6. This man paid his workers $5 a day which helped further the growth of the middle class.
A) Henry Ford
B) Edsel Ford
C) Lee Iacocca
D) Donald Trump
E) Bob Lutz

7. Social class of the workplace5
How you dress dictates your title
White-collar worker- professional, sales, clerks, managers etc…
Blue collar- factory worker

8. A factory worker during the 1920s began to be labeled A) White collar
A) White collar
B) Blue collar
C) Upper Class
D) Social Class
E) Head of the Class 

9. More money, more jobs, more leisure time
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Magazines, newspapers, book sales skyrocket
Advertising at all time high to influence Americans to think they needed things- BUY BUY BUY!!!
The mass media and mass communication through radio, newspapers, billboards and magazines

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15. Within your group, please take the item given to you and create a second radio advertisement using the 1920s slang words given to you earlier. You have 5-7 minutes.
Think about:
Why does everyone need this product?
Who does it help most?
What will your life be like with/without it?

16. More cars more leisure opportunities
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More stores
More recreational activities- amusement parks, camping, movies, sporting events, vacations
More and more advertising
More and more people buying on credit

17. The advertising on radio, billboards, in magazines and newspapers encouraged people to buy _________________, which later helped plunge the country deep into Depression.
A) on credit
B) cars only
C) only if they had cash
D) toothbrushes

18. The Jazz Age 10
Movies
Stars of early silent films- Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz Singer- First talking movie (1927)
Movie houses were packed

19. The era where music, movies, and entertainment were very popular was known as the
A) Stone Age
B) Jazz Age
C) Nuclear Age
D) Blues Age
E) Spectator Age

22. The Jazz Age Sports Boxing- Jack Dempsey Baseball- Babe Ruth11
Sports
Boxing- Jack Dempsey
Baseball- Babe Ruth
Football- Red Grange
Negro League baseball
Baseball division mirrors society
                                  

23. This sport mirrored society because of the way it was segregated into white and black leagues
A)Baseball
B) Soccer
C) Badminton
D) Volleyball
E) Bowling

24. Just Jazz and the Blues Blues and Jazz- new music12
Blues and Jazz- new music
Blues origins in slavery
Jazz- an African American creation
Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington
Dances- Charleston considered immoral

25. African Americans developed this type of music from their days on the plantation during the time of slavery. Bessie Smith was a favorite.
A)Rock n Roll
B) Blues
C) Classical
D) Irish
E) Jazz

26. Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation
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Langston Hughes- poetry and other writings
African Americans finding a “voice” through written words
Lost Generation writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby ( social class)
Ernest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises. (War themes)

27. Langston Hughes was a poet and writer who contributed his work during an era in the 1920s known as the
A) Lost Generation
B) Great Gatsby
C) Harlem Renaissance
D) Red Revolution
E) Palmer Raids

28. I, Too, Sing America
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

29. Alcohol is Illegal?
15-17
18th Amendment- Alcohol Illegal. Volstead Act officers to enforce around the country.
Organized crime booms (Al Capone in Chicago)
Rise of bootlegging, speakeasies(illegal clubs serving alcohol), ordinary people breaking the law
                                      

30. Illegal clubs that sold alcohol during Prohibition were known as
A) Speakeasies
B) Cotton Clubs
C) Charlestons
D) Renaissance clubs
E) Poetry clubs

31. St. Valentine’s day massacre
                                                   

32. Confiscated beer
                                             
               

33. The Speakeasy
                                    

34. Fads and Fashion
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Flapper- girl with “bobbed” hair and shorter skirt and hat
Men- raccoon coats and golf stockings
Pole sitting, crossword puzzles, tabloid news

35. Girls in the 1920s who bobbed their hair and wore shorter skirts and more make-up were known as
A) Gibson girls
B) Flappers
C) Shakers
D) Quakers
E) Victorian Era

36. Crash!!!!! Stock Market Crashes in October, 1929.20
Stock Market Crashes in October, 1929.
Black Thursday, Monday and Tuesday- Stock prices plunge. (Oct )
$30 billion in stock lost.
Economy was soon to follow

38. Legacy of the 1920s
The 1920s had prosperity, youth, and recklessness. The cultural changes were to be seen for years to come. As a result of the crash of the Stock Market, the decade to follow would be filled with despair. Only another world war would be able to pull the country out of depression.