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Fun Facts about the 1920s
105.7 million people in the USA94.8 mill White…10.4 mill Af. Am
Life Expectancy Man: 56…Woman:59…Af Am Male: 47
(about 10 years longer than the early 1900s)
#of Homicides = 5,815Unemployment Rate 4%
Passenger Cars Sold: 1,905,500AM Radio Stations: 1 (by 1930s = 618)
How are the 1920s going to be different?
Your Nation just won “the war to end all wars”
(WWI)
What are you going to do!?
After the war = clash in values!
New Morality
all about personal freedom
v.
Fundamentalist
Old school traditionalists
New Morality
•FREEDOM.
•Young & Modern.
•Worked and spent money on music, fashion, and other entertainment
•Urban (cities- it’s where the action is)
Fundamentalists
•Very Religious: they believed that the Bible was 100% correct and that god created man.
•Sometimes older generation
•Lived in rural areas (farms/Midwest)
Happy Feet
• Happy feet! I've got those happy feet! Give them a low-down beat And they begin dancing! I've got those ten little tapping toes, When they hear a tune I can't control the dancing, dear, To save my soul!
• Those weary blues can't get into my shoes, Because my shoes refuse To ever grow weary. I keep cheerful on an earful Of music sweet; Just got those hap-hap-happy feet!
Why do you bob your hair girls?Blind Alfred Reed
Why do you bob your hair, girls? You're doing mighty wrong; God gave it for a glory And you should wear it long. You spoil your lovely hair, girls, You keep yourself in style; Before you bob your hair, girls, Just stop and think a while.