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Roaring 20s
Points of Interest
An American culture starts to emergeTechnologyTemporary Happy Times (for some)Economy out of controlChange Change Change!
Isolation
To Forget Fighting Wars
MiddletownStudy of how Americans live their lives and the changes that have been documented by sociologist Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell
Migration Patterns
1880-1920 +
Nativism
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Equals Urban America in Cities
1926 NY
Tenement Houses
Cultural FusionWe hates the ways in how
you dance
You are killing
America!
Nativist
Assimilating the Immigrant
Education, Movies, Food and Common Stores
Early 1900 Education
1920 Economy
Adjusting from WWI economyCar creates economic boomNew productsStocksAdvertising
Model T
By 1927 one car produced every twenty-four seconds
Sales jumped from 1.5 million to 5 million by late 1920s
Credit
1920 Economy
FordAds=PersuasionCredit=Increases purchase power/consumptionWelfare Capitalism and no to unions
Quick ChangesChanging the old
Vamps and Flappers
California bathers being confronted by policewomen because they were "scantily clad"
But we are hot
Science (Scope’s Trial)
City life sucks!
Innovation (1929)My wife forgot my sandwich
Common Stores
Movement Harlem Renaissance
Educate ImmigrantsWashington, DC, immigrant-naturalization school - 1920s National Photo Co. / Library of Congress LC-F801-4509)
Credit I would like to buy this to
impress Habib but I do not
have $You can buy using
credit
Is she talking about mu husband Habib?
20s issues
prohibition
Speakeasies
Flappers and Vamps
Women and 19th
Amendment
Challenging 4 Virtues
Old vs. New
Scope’s Trial
Economic Boom
Car, credit and ads
Common Culture
Brands, movies,
stores and radio
Review
An American culture starts to emergeTechnologyTemporary Happy Times (for some)Economy out of controlChange Change Change!
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