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Roaring Twenties By: Jacina Steele
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Popular Music Jazz on radio & phonographs Musicals Lights on Broadway: –No-no Nanette –Show Boat –Rosalie –Runnin’ Wild
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Movies The Jazz Singer Broadway Melody
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Singers Sophie Tucker Fanny Brice Helen Morgan *Paul Whiteman “King of Jazz” #1 Hit.
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18 th Amendment went into effect ; selling possession, consumption of alcoholic beverages End of World War I U.S political focused on social and cultural issues1913-1921-Woodrow Wilson 1921-1923-Warren G Harding 1929-1933- Herbert Hoover Overseas: There was war & Resolutions Home: Strikes, growing fear of radicals & terrostist
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Speeches 1920 > Crystal Eastman “Now We Can Begin” 1921/1922> Margaret Higgins Sanger “The Morality of Birth Control” 1924> Clarence Seward “Mercy for Leopold and Loed” 1925>Margaret Higgins Sanger “The Children Era”
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Women August 23 > Tennessee Legislator The Federal Suffrage Amendment –Women fight over their rights *Freedom is a large word in the 1920’s Feminist are socialist, many were communist Women weren't treated right Wanted Freedom Wanted to be independent just like the men
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Businesses Large New Profit ; Factories and Wages Rises Henry Ford – discount grocery store Incomes Increased The Number of Millionaires grew upon tax reports, 21 Individuals with income over 1 Million Dollars in 1921, 75 in 1924 207 in 1926 15000 in 1927
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Scientist Diabetes: Frederick Grant Banting ( 1891-1941) and Charles Herbert Best ( 1899-1978) >Insulin: which regulates blood sugar levels, ricks of Coma and Death Albert Einstein(1879-1955): won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921), Soon published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” -Migrated to the U.S in 1933, Taught at Princeton University -Vitamin E was discovered : Dr. Herbert McLean Evans In antioxidants, foods
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Facts Tutankhamens Bomb: Nov 4,1922 Baby Austin (1922-1941) British Broadcasting Company (1922) Innovation of Immunization (1923) Beginning of Frozen Food (1925) Television (1926) Penicillin Discovered (1928)
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Books The Diary of a Young Girl by : Anne Frank The Screwtape Letters by : C.S. Lewis Ulysses by : James Joyce The Age of Innocence by : Edith Wharton The Mysterious Affair At Styles ( Hercules Poriot #1 ) by : Agatha Christie The Side of Paradise by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Historical Events American Art Deco – Exhibiitions, furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles. Architecture, jewerly, painting and Black and White illustrations Art Movemenets 1925 Year in Review – Texas net Museum of Art
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106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed, unemployed 5.2% Life epectancy : Male 53.6, Female : 54.6 Average annual earnings $1236 Teachers salary $970 Gangland crimes murder, swindles and racketeering Took 13 days to reach California from New York
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Then (1920’s)Now (2013) Gas Prices$0.13$3.66 Bread$0.12$1.88 Milk$0.33$2.79 Eggs$0.47$1.54 Movie Tickets$0.25$7.00 Music$1.00-1.50$30.00 High School Requirements
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Only 17 guns fro 1920 to 1929 in the Military Factory
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