Tuesday March 7th , 2017 Learning Target; I can explain why the 20’s are called the “Roaring Twenties” Agenda News Stock Market Notes on 20’s Things to Remember;
Cnn Student news I will hand out money and stocks during this time
Stock Market Me or the broker will give you back your money and stock Decide which stocks you want to buy looking at the prospectus Stock Market will open and close when I say it opens and closes In the meantime you should work on your story board
End of Year 5 Company 1920 1921 1922 1924 1926 1927 1928 1929 KROGER 80 100 150 140 RADIO CORP. 110 130 160 170 MAMMOTH 120 40 30 CITY CORP. DURANT 70 60 50 MIDLAND 90 KANSAS & PACIFIC TEL-TONE 180 200 220
Stock Market OPen KROGER 140 RADIO CORP. MAMMOTH 40 CITY CORP. DURANT 60 MIDLAND 100 KANSAS & PACIFIC 130 TEL-TONE 180
End of Year 6 Company 1920 1921 1922 1924 1926 1927 1928 1929 KROGER 80 100 150 140 150 RADIO CORP. 110 130 160 MAMMOTH 120 40 30 CITY CORP. 160 DURANT 70 60 50 MIDLAND KANSAS & PACIFIC 130 140 120 TEL-TONE 150 160 170 180 200
COllect Come up by ROW when directed to. Me or the Broker can sign off on your money.
An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict
1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age" in sum, a period of great change in American Society - modern America is born at this time for first time the census reflected an urban society - people had moved into cities to enjoy a higher standard of living
Age of Prosperity Economic expansion Mass Production Assembly Line Age of the Automobile Ailing Agriculture…
U.S. farmers lost markets in postwar Europe at same time agri. efficiency increased so more food produced (more food = lower prices) and fewer labourers needed so farming was no longer as prosperous, and bankers called in their loans (farms repossessed) so American farmers enter the Depression in advance of the rest of society
Black Americans in this period continued to live in poverty sharecropping kept them in de facto slavery 1915 - boll weevil wiped out the cotton crop white landowners went bankrupt & forced blacks off their land
Blacks moved north to take advantage of booming wartime industry (= Great Migration) - Black ghettoes began to form, i.e. Harlem within these ghettoes a distinct Black culture flourished But both blacks and whites wanted cultural interchange restricted
Consumer Economy
Culture of the Roaring 20’s Radio KDKA Pittsburgh GE, Westinghouse,& RCA form NBC Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin “Talkies” The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”
Celebrities Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis Jack Dempsey
The 20’s is The Jazz Age The Flappers Writers Musicians make up cigarettes short skirts Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington
1920's also brought about great changes for women... 1920 - 19th Amendment gave them the federal vote after 1920, social circumstances changed too as more women worked outside the home and more women went to college and clamoured to join the professions women didn't want to sacrifice wartime gains - amounted to a social revolt characterized by the FLAPPER/ "new woman" (bobbed hair, short dresses, smoked in public...)
A Society in Conflict Anti-immigrant National Origins Act Discrimination
The Ku Klux Klan In power Great increase Anti-black Anti-immigrant Anti-Semitic Anti-Catholic Anti-women’s suffrage Anti-bootleggers
High School Biology teacher Scopes “Monkey” Trial Evolution vs. Creationism Science vs. Religion Famous Lawyers Dayton, Tennessee John Scopes High School Biology teacher
Prohibition Volstead Act untouchables Gangsters 18th Amendment Al Capone
PROHIBITION - on manuf. and sale of alcohol adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT an outgrowth of the longtime temperance movement in WWI, temperance became a patriotic mvmt. - drunkenness caused low productivity & inefficiency, and alcohol needed to treat the wounded a difficult law to enforce... organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers were on the rise Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period - capitalism at its zenith… Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w/ the 21st Amendment forced organized crime to pursue other interests…