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Part 5: RED SCARE Part 5: RED SCARE (12 slides)(12 slides)

Part 6: BUSINESS BOOM Part 6: BUSINESS BOOM (12 slides)(12 slides)

Part 3: GREAT MIGRATION Part 3: GREAT MIGRATION (12 slides)(12 slides)

Part 2: 1920s CULTURE Part 2: 1920s CULTURE (12 slides)(12 slides)

Part 4: PROHIBITION Part 4: PROHIBITION (12 slides)(12 slides)

Part 1: LOST GENERATION Part 1: LOST GENERATION (12 slides)(12 slides) Part 1: LOST GENERATION Part 1: LOST GENERATION (12 slides)(12 slides)

Key Terms:Prohibition

Speakeasies & Bootlegging

Harlem Renaissance

Flapper

Red Scare

Isolationism

Assembly Line

Apollo Theater

Scopes Monkey Trail

Louis Armstrong

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Al Capone

Charles Lindbergh

Amelia Earhart

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

Key Terms Key Terms Directions: Directions: 8 squares on 8 squares on front, 8 on front, 8 on back with back with definitions & definitions & drawingsdrawings

THE TWENTIES, 1920-1929THE TWENTIES, 1920-1929THE TWENTIES, 1920-1929THE TWENTIES, 1920-1929Choose four items from this list:

Lost Generation, Flappers, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Scopes Trial, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Prohibition, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Al Capone, Red Scare, Red Summer, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover

Directions:1) Write a paragraph about each of the four items, connecting them to the 1920’s 2) Big Picture - What does it have to do with trends seen in the decade? (trends include:

economic prosperity, labor tensions, post-war disillusion, race tensions, changing gender roles)

3) Little Picture – draw a little picture with each paragraph, literally

Example: Henry FordHenry Ford was an American businessman who saw his company flourish during the 1920s. His Model T was created using an assembly line which meant faster, cheaper production. Because of this, ordinary citizens could buy cars (even his employees). This is a perfect representation of the 1920s economic boom since it shows the prosperity of even average citizens.

Choose four items from this list:Lost Generation, Flappers, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Scopes Trial, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Prohibition, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Al Capone, Red Scare, Red Summer, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover

Directions:1) Write a paragraph about each of the four items, connecting them to the 1920’s 2) Big Picture - What does it have to do with trends seen in the decade? (trends include:

economic prosperity, labor tensions, post-war disillusion, race tensions, changing gender roles)

3) Little Picture – draw a little picture with each paragraph, literally

Example: Henry FordHenry Ford was an American businessman who saw his company flourish during the 1920s. His Model T was created using an assembly line which meant faster, cheaper production. Because of this, ordinary citizens could buy cars (even his employees). This is a perfect representation of the 1920s economic boom since it shows the prosperity of even average citizens.

The 1920s was a time of massive social change. New technologies and new entertainment led to new lifestyles and new attitudes. Radios began to appear in every house. Athletes, aviators and entertainers of the roaring ‘20s rose to national and international fame.

The role of women in society underwent changes as well. Women, who gained voting rights in 1919, began to gain more power and freedom. Unheard of in previous generations, young women began to dress in scandalous ways, started to play sports, and would even drink and smoke.

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Babe Ruth

Charles Lindbergh Flappers

Amelia Earhart

The 1920s was the era of radio, movies, music, literature, painting and newspapers as new forms of information, entertainment, and art expanded and mass-media increased.

Radio – 1920: 20,000 houses have radios … 1930 = 13,750,000

Movies – Thomas Edison’s 1903 “The Great Train Robbery” was only 12 minutes, but was the first film to tell a complete story. By 1915, D.W. Griffith made the first full-length movie called “Birth of a Nation” (190 minutes). But by the early 1920’s, many American towns had a movie theater.  Most Americans went to the movies at least once a week.  The movie industry became a big business.

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1920s CULTURE1920s CULTURE1920s CULTURE1920s CULTUREFlappers: refer to a new breed of young women in the 1920s who often wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, danced in a scandalous manner, treated sex as a casual exercise and refused to act with "decent" behavior. Even the act of driving a car was seen as indecent for a woman, this was a common occurrence for a flapper. They were rebels in their time since sports, drinking hard liquor and smoking frowned upon as feminine pastimes.

The 1920s Flappers are even credited with developing their own ‘lingo’. They popularized several phrases to describe things they liked, such as: “that’s so Jake,” “that’s the bees knees,” “the cat’s meow,” and “the cat’s pajamas.”

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Flapper Vocabulary:Flapper Vocabulary:

Wet Blanket = a boring personWet Blanket = a boring personShackles = engagement ringShackles = engagement ringJazz = anything that is goodJazz = anything that is goodGet a wiggle on = dancing Get a wiggle on = dancing Swanky = luxuriousSwanky = luxuriousNecker = kisserNecker = kisserHeavy necking = heavy kissingHeavy necking = heavy kissingPill = a teacher or other unlikeable personPill = a teacher or other unlikeable person

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Counter-cultural women through the decades:

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1920s Flappers1920s FlappersSmoking,

drinking, sports, dancing,

promiscuity

1950s Beatniks1950s BeatniksDrugs, anti-materialism, mysticism, promiscuity

2000s Goths2000s GothsLeather, drugs, isolation, anti-establishment,

promiscuity

1980s Punks1980s PunksDrugs, rock, metal, anti-

establishment, promiscuity

1960s Hippies1960s HippiesDrugs, music,

anti-war, organic, promiscuity

Although it was deliberately arranged to bring publicity, The Scopes Monkey Trial showed that traditional ideas of religion were being challenged by society. Most Americans believed that the Biblical account of Creation was true, but many were beginning to believe in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial was around the issue of John T. Scopes, a Tennessee public school science teacher, unlawfully teaching the theory of evolution in his classroom. Scopes lost the trial and was fined $100. William Jennings Bryan, who ran for U.S. president three times, was the prosecuting attorney, while famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow represented Scopes.

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Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings BryanClarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan

• 1920s DEMOGRAPHICS: • Many African-Americans

migrated to Northern states• Immigrants from Europe were

limited with quotas• Immigrants from Mexico and

Latin America increased• Rural living declines, • Suburbs continue to grow

outside of major cities

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DEMOGRAPHICS: statistics that describe a population such as data on race or income.

Charles Lindbergh (1902 –1974), also called "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. When he landed in Paris after making the first Trans-Atlantic flight, 15,000 Parisians were there to greet him. Within an hour, 100,000 people were there.

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Amelia Mary Earhart (1897 – 1937) was an early female aviator who gained international fame in the late 1920s and, five years behind Lindbergh, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

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1920s CULTURE1920s CULTURE1920s CULTURE1920s CULTUREJack DempseyJack Dempsey (1897 – 1937) was a boxing celebrity in the 1920s.

He was world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926 and had a career record of 65-6-11. He was known for entering saloons and bars and picking fights for money. “I can’t sing, I can’t dance, but I can [hit]

any SOB in the house.”

Gertrude Ederle Gertrude Ederle (1897-1937) was an Olympic swimmer who won three medals in the 1924 Paris Olympics. ‘Trudy’ was welcomed home with a Broadway parade for her efforts. She also gained fame for swimming across the English Channel in 1926.

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George Herman Ruth (1895 – 1948), better known as "Babe Ruth,” was nick-named “The Great Bambino” and “The Sultan of Swat.” He was a famous baseball player and national celebrity throughout the 1920s. Consistently chosen as the greatest baseball player in history, his home run-hitting exploits and wild living made him an iconic figure of the Roaring Twenties.

He was one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and his record of 60 home runs in the 1927 season stood for 34 years. On the 100th anniversary of professional baseball (1969), sportswriters voted Ruth as baseball's Greatest-Player-Ever. In addition to being an efficient pitcher, Babe Ruth ended up Babe Ruth ended up with 714 career homeruns and was the with 714 career homeruns and was the first player to hit over 30, 40, 50 or 60 home runs in one season..

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