1. CHAPTER 23
JAZZ AGE

2. Section 1
Boom Times

3. OBJECTIVES
Evaluate how the economic boom affected consumers and American businesses
Examine how the assembly line spurred the growth of the automobile industry
Explain how widespread automobile use affected the daily lives of many Americans
Discuss how American industries encouraged changes in consumer practices

4. ECONOMIC BOOM FOR CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES
Economic prosperity – led to wage increases for workers
Workers – increased their purchasing power – created a market for new products
More electrical appliances

5. ASSEMBLY LINE AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Assembly line cut production time and costs
Manufacturers were able to reduce car prices – this allowed greater numbers of consumers to buy cars

9. FORD CHANGED WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE 1920’S
Developed the assembly line
Shortened the work day
Increased wages

11. AUTOMOBILE’S AFFECTS ON DAILY LIFE THE AMERICANS
Linked rural areas to urban areas
Contributed to the growth of suburbs
Replaced horse-drawn vehicles
Reduced the use of the trains/trolley cars
New social opportunities for teenagers

12. Horse-drawn vehicle was replaced

13. Henry Ford’s Model T

14. CHANGES IN CONSUMER PRACTICES
Installment buying – making monthly payments
Advertising – magazines, newspapers, billboards, and radio
Retail chain stores – A & P Grocery chain store

17. SECTION 2
Life in the 1920’s

18. OBJECTIVES Analyze the impact prohibition had on crime
Describe the characteristics of the new youth culture
Explain how new forms of popular entertainment created a mass culture
Examine what the Scopes trial and the religious movement of the 1920’d revealed about American society

19. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919
Volstead Act (enforced the 18th Amendment)
Speakeasies (bars)
Bootleggers (alcohol smuggled in from Canada, Mexico, West Indies)
Al Capone (Chicago mobster)
Eliot Ness (Prohibition Bureau special agent)
Untouchables (Ness and his detectives)
21st Amendment (Repealed Prohibition in 1933)

20. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919

21. Prohibition from 1919 to 1933
(18th Amendment)

22. Prohibition from 1919 to 1933

23. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Volstead Act (enforced the 18th Amendment)

24. Volstead Act
Enforced Prohibition

26. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Speakeasies (bars)

27. Speakeasy was an illegal bar during Prohibition

28. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Bootleggers (alcohol smuggled in from Canada, Mexico, West Indies)

29. Bootleggers and their equipment to make moonshine

30. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Al Capone (Chicago mobster)

31. Gangster “Scarface”
Al Capone

33. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

35. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Eliot Ness (Prohibition Bureau special agent)

36. Eliot Ness Prohibition Bureau Special Agent

37. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
Untouchables (Ness and his detectives)

38. (Ness and his detectives)
The Untouchables
(Ness and his detectives)

39. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME
21st Amendment (Repealed Prohibition in 1933)

40. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
Women seeking social and economic independence
Participated in sports
Held jobs
College life’s fashions
Leisure activities in college

41. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
Dress of the females changed
(wore shorter skirts and silk nylons)
Wore bobbed hair

42. Bobbed hair in the 1920’s

43. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
Flappers were women that did not conform to society
(had bobbed hair, drove cars, smoked in public, and participated in sports)

44. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
New jobs for the women
(ran telegraph lines, stenographers, flew airplanes, hauled freight in trucks, nurses, teachers, etc)

45. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
Collegiate look for the youth was baggy flannel shirts and sport jackets

46. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH
Leisure activities
(dance marathons, beauty contests, and flagpole sitters)

47. Women in Sports

48. College Life in the 1920’s

49. NEW FORMS OF POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT
Radio – KDKA in Pittsburgh/WWJ in Detroit
NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

50. Radio – KDKA at Pittsburgh in 1920

51. MOVIES
Silent films ended in 1927 First “talkie” film – Jazz singer

53. Movie Theatre

54. FOOTBALL

55. Red Grange – Football for the Chicago Bears

56. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Baseball – Chicago White Sox World Series Scandal

57. Babe Ruth – New York Yankees
“Sultan of Swat”

59. Lou Gehrig - New York Yankees ALS disease

61. Ty Cobb – Baseball Detroit Tigers

62. Jim Thorpe – Olympian Professional BB and FB star

64. CHARLES LINDBERGH Minnesotan 1927 he flew the Spirit of St. Louis from
NY to Paris ($25,000 prize)
33.5 hours

65. Charles Lindbergh and son

67. Amelia Earhart Flew across the Atlantic in 1928
First female to fly across the Atlantic in 1928

68. Amelia Earhart 1937 she attempted to fly a plane around the world.
The plane went down some miles off the coast of Howland Island (SW of Hawaii)

69. Amelia Earhart

70. SCOPES TRIAL/RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT
John Scopes – teacher
Creation vs. Evolution
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Guilty - fined $100
Deep division between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of thought

71. John Scopes

74. SECTION 3
A Creative Era

75. OBJECTIVES Explain how the jazz and blues became popular nationwide.
Describe how the writers of the Lost Generation portrayed American life.

76. JAZZ AND BLUES Originated in the south by African Americans
Popular nationwide as musicians moved to the north
White musicians begin to play this music
Jazz Clubs open throughout the U.S.
Big Bands popularized jazz as dance music

79. WRITERS OF THE LOST GENERATION WW I VETERANS
Ernest Hemingway – showed the devastation and uselessness of war

80. WRITERS OF THE LOST GENERATION WW I VETERANS
F. Scott Fitzgerald – revealed about the wealthy college students bored by fast living

81. WRITERS OF THE LOST GENERATION – WW I VETERANS
Sinclair Lewis – discussed the emptiness and conformity of middle-class life

83. Ernest Hemingway
Key West Home

84. Hemmingway’s Book about WWI

85. F. Scott Fitzgerald

86. Rags to riches story suspected of illegal bootlegging

87. Sinclair Lewis

88. Satire on American culture