1. 1920’s The jazz Age

2. Warm up
Brain storm! as a group all you know about the USA in the 1920s….fashions, events, famous people, fads, trends etc, try for 10+!
Use phones only if you get stuck….

3. 1920s Slang Words Use 1 in a sentence!
Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea
Berries - is attractive or pleasing; similar to bee's knees, As in "It's the berries."
Big Cheese - The most important or influential person. Same as big shot
Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a prude
Bump Off - To murder
Carry a Torch - To have a crush on someone
Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee's knees; The best or greatest
Cat's Pajamas - Same as cat's meow
Cheaters - Eyeglasses
Crush - An infatuation
Dogs - feet
Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls
Dumb Dora - a stupid female
Fall Guy - victim of a frame
Flat Tire - A dull insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan
Frame - To give false evidence, to set up someone
Gams - A woman's legs
Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
Gin Mill - An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar
Hard Boiled - a tough, strong guy
Heebie-Jeebies - The jitters
Hooch - Bootleg liquor
Hoofer - Dancer
Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing

4. A Clash of values
1920’s saw a clash between traditional and modern values
Post WWI America was prosperous and confident, consumerism was on the rise
Americans returned to ISOLATIONSIM: (staying apart from other Nations) and nativism.

5. Resurgence of nativism
Nativism: a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
After WWI we hated and feared the Communists and immigrants.
Immigrants seen as threats.
New quotas set to restrict immigration.

7. The Palmer Raids 1919

8. Palmer Raids
1919 After a series of bombings by ANARCHISTS, US Attorney General Robert Palmer conducts sweeping raids, arresting thousands of foreigners nation-wide.
Many were jailed and/or deported. Civil liberties were ignored.
Led into Red Scare!
Beginning of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover’s long career

9. The Red Scare
After WWI, people feared the spread of communism, “Workers of the world, UNITE!!” turmoil after war: gov’t price controls
(Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, 1917)
Economy in removed—led to high prices, workers’ strikes
Americans feared a communist conspiracy

10. Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Two immigrant anarchist convicted of burglary and murder after a prejudiced trial
I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I am an Italian and indeed I am an Italian.

11. Eugenics: the “Pseudo-Science”

12. Eugenics Used by nativists to argue superiority of whites.
Said human inequalities were inherited
Used to justify sterilization of mentally ill or handicapped Americans
Studies will be used by Nazi Germany in its push to create a master race and exterminate “undesirables”

14. Keep America American
New laws restricted immigration, set quotas based on 1890 levels.
Mexican immigration—Mexico exempt from quotas; take work in agriculture.
Asian immigration: stopped almost completely

15. The Scopes “Monkey” Trial
Creationism v. Evolution
Old-fashioned v. Modern
William Jennings Bryan v. Clarence Darrow
1925 Tennessee --- High school Science teacher John Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution.

17. prohibition

18. The Volstead act The law that enforced Prohibition
Took authority from the state governments and made the Treasury Dept responsible for enforcing Prohibition.
Increased the role of the federal gov’t in law enforcement
Most People quietly ignored this law!
They drank in Speakeasies!

19. The new American Hero
Sports: baseball, boxing, football, basketball

22. What are some of the messages of this AD?

23. Mass Media/advertising
Radio, newspaper, motion pictures, magazines help create a shared national culture
Advertising : Employed the use of psychological methods to encourage a type of behavior

25. African-American culture
The Great Migration
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the South moving to industrial cities looking for work and better lives.

26. African-American Politics
African-Americans have fewer voting restrictions in Northern cities.
Voting Blocs: greater concentration of blacks voting in the cities. More success in influencing voting. Blacks tended to vote Republican
NAACP: continues its fight against segregation, discrimination, and lynching.

27. Harlem Renaissance

28. The Harlem Renaissance
The development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century.
Many famous African American Artists and writers came here.
VLA:

30. Harlem An area in NYC where many African-Americans settled.
Created a community of racial pride and success, political organization, and artistic development.

31. Harlem—Home of JAZZ
The Cotton Club, the Apollo, the Savoy

32. JAZZ and BLUES
A style of music that grew out of Dixieland, ragtime, and African spiritual influences.
Syncopated, soulful, swinging rhythms.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker

33. Writers and Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay— wrote against racism
Langston Hughes—focus on African-American pride, expectation of equality

34. Black nationalism Promoted black pride and unity Led by Marcus Garvey.
Believed African-Americans could gain economic and political power thru EDUCATION
Also pushed for separation and independence from whites
Garvey est’d the UNIA—United Negro Improvement Association
Proposed that blacks everywhere should return to Africa— “Pan-African” Movement

35. Marcus Garvey
Federal officials believed Garvey to be dangerous, afraid he would incite rebellion and violence.
Garvey was arrested and deported to Jamaica

36. Tulsa Race Riot
1921
Greenwood district of Tulsa destroyed– America’s “Black Wall Street”
Riot begins after Tulsa Tribune article publishes account of black man attacking a white woman in an elevator
White mobs burn Greenwood, citizens blocked fire dept from responding
Official death toll is 35, but is probably closer to 300.
No other arrests made
Dick Rowland released; Sarah Page did not press charges.

37. Wrap Up:
Create a Roaring Twenties Web or Graphic Organizer design depicting 20 + facts with at least 3 chains of facts linked together….
Also design an IMAGE that illustrates something of the 1920s…