Unit 16 PPT

American History of
The Roaring 20s
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Womens Changing Roles

The Flapper Image
The flapper, a type of bold, fun-loving young
woman, came to symbolize a revolution in
manners and morals that took place in the
1920s.
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Flappers challenged conventions of

dress, hairstyle, and behavior.
Many Americans disapproved of flappers
free manners as well as the departure
from traditional morals that they
represented.
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Women Working and Voting

Although many women held jobs in the
1920s, businesses remained prejudiced
against women seeking professional
positions.
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women
the right to vote in all elections beginning
in 1920.
At first, many women did not exercise their
right to vote. It took time for womens
votes to make an impact.
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Americans on the Move

Rural-Urban Split
Although the economy in the cities expanded in
the 1920s, many farmers found themselves
economically stressed. This resulted in a
migration from rural to urban areas.
Rural and urban Americans were also split over
cultural issues. While many in the cities
were abandoning some traditional values,
rural populations generally wanted to
preserve these values.
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Growth of the Suburbs

While cities continued to grow, many
Americans moved from cities to suburbs.
Improvements in transportation made
travel between the cities and suburbs
increasingly easy.
This shift in population was one example
of changing demographics, or statistics
that describe a group of people, during the
1920s.
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Waves of Migration
During the Great Migration, which lasted
through World War I, many African Americans
had moved from the rural South to take jobs in
northern cities.
Industrial expansion during the 1920s also
encouraged African American migration to the
North.
However, they often faced discrimination in
both the North and the South.
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After World War I, masses of refugees

applied for entry into the United States.
Immigration from China, Japan, and
southern and eastern Europe was limited;
however, many immigrants from Mexico
and Canada filled low-paying jobs in the
United States.
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Certain areas became magnets for

immigrants.
A barrio, or Spanish-speaking
neighborhood, developed in Los Angeles,
California; New York also attracted
numerous Spanish-speaking immigrants.
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American Heroes
American Heroes in the
1920s
Charles
As the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris,
Lindbergh aviator Charles Lindbergh was hailed as an
American hero and a champion of traditional
values.
Amelia
Earhart
Amelia Earhart set records as the first woman to fly solo

across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from
Hawaii to California. She and her navigator mysteriously
disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in
1937.
Sports
Heroes
Champions in wrestling, football, baseball, and

swimming became American heroes. Perhaps the most
famous sports figure was baseballs George Herman
Babe Ruth, whose record number of home runs
remained unbroken for 40 years.
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The Mass Media

Growth of the mass
media, instruments for
communicating with
large numbers of people,
helped form a common
American popular culture
during the 1920s.
The popularity of motion
pictures grew throughout
the 1920s; talkies, or
movies with sound, were
introduced in 1927.
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Newspapers grew in both size and

circulation.
Tabloids, compact papers which
replaced serious news with
entertainment, became popular.
Magazines also became widely read.
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Although radio barely existed as a mass

medium until the 1920s, it soon enjoyed
tremendous growth.
Networks linked many stations together,
sending the same music, news, and
commercials to Americans around the country.
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The Jazz Age

Jazz, a style of music that
grew out of the African
American music of the South,
became highly popular during
the 1920s.
Characterized by
improvisation and
syncopation, jazz became so
strongly linked to the culture
of the 1920s that the decade
came to be known as the
Jazz Age.
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Harlem, a district in
Manhattan, New York,
became a center of
jazz music.
Flappers and others
heard jazz in clubs and
dance halls; the
Charleston, considered
by some to be a wild
and reckless dance,
embodied the Jazz
Age.
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Jazz pioneers Duke Ellington and Louis

Armstrong made important contributions
to jazz music.
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Other Art Inspired

by Jazz
Painting
Like jazz musicians, painters in the 1920s took
the pulse of American life.
Painters such as Edward Hopper and Rockwell
Kent showed the nations rougher side; Georgia
OKeeffes paintings of natural objects
suggested something larger than themselves.
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Literature
Novelist Sinclair Lewis attacked American
society with savage irony.
Playwright Eugene ONeill proved that
American plays could hold their own
against those from Europe.
The Lost Generation
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Gertrude Stein remarked to Ernest

Hemingway that he and other American
writers were all a Lost Generation, a
group of people disconnected from their
country and its values. Soon, this term
was taken up by the flappers as well.
The Harlem Renaissance

In addition to being a center of jazz,
Harlem emerged as an overall cultural
center for African Americans.
A literary awakening took place in
Harlem in the 1920s that was known as
the Harlem Renaissance.
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Expressing the joys and challenges of being

African American, writers such as James
Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and
Langston Hughes enriched African American
culture as well as American culture as a whole.
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Prohibition
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution,
which took effect on January 16, 1920, made
the manufacture, sale, and transport of liquor,
beer, and wine illegal.
As a result, many Americans turned to
bootleggers, or suppliers of illegal alcohol.
Bars that operated illegally, known as
speakeasies, were either disguised as
legitimate businesses or hidden in some way,
often behind heavy gates.
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Prohibition sharpened the contrast between rural

and urban areas, since urban areas were more
likely to ignore the law.
Additionally, it increased the number of liquorserving establishments in some major cities to
far above pre-Prohibition levels.
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Organized Crime
The tremendous
profit resulting from
the sale of illegal
liquor, as well as the
complex organization
involved, helped lead
to the development of
organized crime.
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Successful bootlegging organizations

often moved into other illegal activities as
well, including gambling, prostitution, and
racketeering.
As rival groups fought for control in some
American cities, gang wars and murders
became commonplace.
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One of the most

notorious criminals
of this time was Al
Capone, nicknamed
Scarface, a
gangster who rose
to the top of
Chicagos organized
crime network.
Capone proved
talented at avoiding
jail but was finally
imprisoned in 1931.
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Issues of Religion:
Fundamentalism
As science, technology, modern social
issues, and new Biblical scholarship
challenged traditional religious beliefs, a
religious movement called
fundamentalism gained popularity.
Fundamentalism supported traditional
Christian ideas and argued for a literal
interpretation of the Bible.
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Billy Sunday and other famous

fundamentalist preachers drew large
audiences.
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Evolution and the Scopes Trail

Fundamentalists worked to pass laws
against teaching the theory of evolution in
public schools.
A science teacher named John T. Scopes
agreed to challenge such a law in
Tennessee.
His arrest led to what was called the
Scopes trial.
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The Scopes trial became the first trial to

be broadcast over American radio.
The case became a public debate
between fundamentalists and modernists.
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Racial Tensions
Violence Against
African Americans
Mob violence
between white and
black Americans
erupted in about 25
cities during the
summer of 1919.
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The worst of these race riots occurred in

Chicago, where the African American
population had doubled since 1910.
A white man threw a rock at a black
teenager swimming in Lake Michigan, and
the boy drowned.
The incident touched off riots that lasted
several days, destroyed many homes,
killed several people and wounded many
more.
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Revival of the Klan

Although it had been largely eliminated
during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan
regained power during the 1920s and
greatly increased its membership outside
the South.
The Klans focus shifted to include
terrorizing not just African Americans but
also Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and
others.
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After the arrest

of a major Klan
leader in 1925,
Klan
membership
diminished once
again.
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Fighting Discrimination
During the 1920s, the National Association
for the Adavancement of Colored People
(NAACP) fought for anti-lynching laws and
worked to promote the voting rights of
African Americans.
These efforts, however, met with limited
success.
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A movement led by Marcus

Garvey, an immigrant from
Jamaica, became popular
with many African Americans.
Garvey, who created the
Universal Negro
Improvement Association
(UNIA) sought to build up
African Americans selfrespect and economic power,
encouraging them to buy
shares in his Negro Factories
Corporation.
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Garvey also encouraged his followers to return

to Africa and create a self-governing nation
there.
Although corruption and mismanagement
resulted in the collapse of the UNIA, Garveys
ideas of racial pride and independence would
affect future black pride movements.
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Presidents during the 20s

1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson
1921-1923 Warren G. Harding
1923-1928 Calvin Coolidge
1928-1932 Herbert Hoover
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Buzzwords
slang used for "girls or women":
a broad
a bunny
a canary (one who could sing)
a charity girl (one who was promiscuous)
a dame
a doll
cat's meow
cat's whiskers
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More Buzzwords
Joe College - better yet a
Joe Yale - or a Joe Zilch
Jazzbo
Jellybean
blind date
Upchuck
jazz babies
pos-a-loot-ly
the real McCoy
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Games invented:
mah-jongg, ouija
boards, and
crossword puzzles
Endurance races of
all sorts gained
popularity especially
Marathons and
flagpole sitting
Dance marathons began in 1923 and
really became the
rage.
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American Baseball was extremely popular

during the 20s
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Harry Houdini was the great escape of the

1920s.
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The very first Miss

America contest took
place in Atlantic City in
1921.
Margaret Gorman (16
years old) was the first
winner with
measurements of 30-2532
Dance crazes included the
Charleston, the Black
Bottom, and the Shimmy.
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American History of

The Roaring 20s

Womens Changing Roles

Flappers challenged conventions of

Women Working and Voting

Americans on the Move

Growth of the Suburbs

After World War I, masses of refugees

Certain areas became magnets for

Amelia Earhart set records as the first woman to fly solo

Champions in wrestling, football, baseball, and

The Mass Media

Newspapers grew in both size and

Although radio barely existed as a mass

The Jazz Age

Jazz pioneers Duke Ellington and Louis

Other Art Inspired

The Lost Generation

Gertrude Stein remarked to Ernest

The Harlem Renaissance

Expressing the joys and challenges of being

Prohibition sharpened the contrast between rural

Successful bootlegging organizations

One of the most

Billy Sunday and other famous

Evolution and the Scopes Trail

The Scopes trial became the first trial to

The worst of these race riots occurred in

Revival of the Klan

After the arrest

A movement led by Marcus

Garvey also encouraged his followers to return

Presidents during the 20s

American Baseball was extremely popular

Harry Houdini was the great escape of the

The very first Miss

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