1. POST-WAR AMERICA & THE INFLUENCE OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
The Roaring 20s
POST-WAR AMERICA
&
THE INFLUENCE OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

2. Popular Culture Radio: Broadcast new music – jazz – during the 1920s.
Fireside Chats during the 1930s and 1940s.
President Roosevelt gave talks through the radio to the American people to calm their fears.

3. Pop Culture Movies: New form of entertainment in the 1920s.
Provided escape from Depression-era realities.

4. Pop Culture Newspapers and magazines:
Shaped cultural norms and sparked fads.

5. Traditional Values Challenged
Religion Challenged
Darwin’s Theory leads to new scientific ideas.
Scope’s Trial – these new ideas will create conflict in education.
It’s also called the “Monkey Trial.”
Read “Fundamentalism” on pages

6. Prohibition Drinking challenged with the onset of prohibition.
18th amendment
1920
The sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol for consumption were banned.

7. The Drunkard’s Progress
People who were against alcohol used propaganda such as this to convince people that drinking was evil.

8. “Speakeasies” Underground facilities used as bars during Prohibition.
Must know password to enter.
People would use flasks, coconut shells, and garden hoses to transport liquor.
Would pay off police to turn backs during deliveries.

9. Organized Crime Mafias or Mobs and “Gangsters”
Italian immigrants didn’t trust the local crooked cops for protection in cities.
Al Capone’s mob in Chicago was one of the most famous violent mobs in America.

10. Films

11. Films

12. Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Two Italian immigrants.
Both known for being anarchists (don’t believe there should be government).
Accused of murdering a man and his assistant carrying money from their business.
Both men were found with loaded guns and plans for an anarchist rally.
They were arrested, went to trial, and executed by way of electric chair.
The case reflected American attitudes about immigrants

13. Immigration Restriction
In the early 1900s, everyone was welcome.
By the 1920s,
The Ku Klux Klan emerges again to restrict immigration.
Targeted
African Americans
Catholics
Jews
Immigrants
“Un-American”
Dies out by the end of the 1920s
Emergency Quota Act
Admission to U.S. – 3% of the total number of people of an ethnic group already in the U.S.
National Origins Act
Same as above but now 2%.

14. Immigration Restriction

15. Prohibition Repealed 1933 21st amendment
Federal government gave the STATES the power to decide whether or not to limit consumption and production of alcohol.
Which amendment was the federal government following here by giving the states the right to choose?
10th

16. Society

17. Ladies Night Out: “Flappers”
19th Amendment gave women a new freedom.
Shorter skirts
New hair styles
Excessive make-up
Sexual promiscuity
Smoking
Driving automobiles
Listening to Jazz
Often found at speakeasies

18. Jazz Age “Individualism” – focus on the individual.
New transportation and communication – cars, air travel, telephone.
Homosexuality beginning to be accepted.
Modern trends in social behaviors.
New Music that encouraged dancing in explicit ways.

19. Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration caused many African Americans to migrate to northern cities.
Centered in Harlem, NY.
The Harlem Renaissance – African-American movement in the North.
“New Negro”
Rise in African-American education and appreciation for the culture and heritage of the African-American’s history and life.

20. Harlem Renaissance Notable People
Claude McKay
Anti-racism poet
Langston Hughes
Stressed racial pride
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist – rural African American culture
Their Eyes Were Watching God

21. Consumerism
Mass production of vehicles, electronics, household goods made it much easier for people to purchase these items.
Consumers buy excessively.

22. Overall During the 1920s 1920s characterized by
U.S. becomes global power
1920s characterized by
Market BOOM – people buying a lot of products
Optimism
People investing on borrowed money
What’s going to happen to this optimism?