1. The Roaring Twenties
Changes that occurred in American life following WWI
The Great Migration North
The Red Scare
Inventions and Technology
The effects of the automobile on American society and culture
Music, art, and literature,
Key individuals

2. Changes in America following WWI
Labor saving products
Electric lighting
Movement to the suburbs
Entertainment
Improved communication

3. Labor Saving Products = Freedom
Labor saving products came on the scene and changed daily life.
People now had more leisure time. Some examples of these products are –washing machines and vacuum cleaners.

4. Electric Lighting
By the 1920s, more than 60% of American households had electricity.

5. Movement to the Suburbs
Cars contributed to the spread of suburbs. People could live in a suburb and still have a job in the city.

6. Entertainment Movies Radios Offered entertainment Offered escape
Were black and white
Were called talkies
First talkie – The Jazz Singer
Radios
First commercial radio broadcast – KDKA in Pittsburgh
Programs included
News
Concerts
Sporting events
Comedies
Music

7. The Great Migration North
During WWI, more than 500,000 African Americans had left the South for new jobs in the North. Why?
Low-paying jobs in the south
Discrimination and violence in the south
Better employment opportunities in the north
Segregation in the south
This northern migration caused
Race riots
Discrimination
Violence -
all in the north

8. The Red Scare -
was a period when the government went after “Reds” - as communists were known, and others with radical views such as anarchists.
Anarchists – people who believe there should be no government
In the early 1920s, the government deported – expelled about 500 aliens it had arrested because they were considered dangerous.

9. Inventions and Technology
Wider availability of consumer goods
Assembly line
Radio
Increased demand for electricity
Higher standard of living
Advertising
Brand
Names
Installment buying
More leisure time for me!!

10. The effects of the automobile on American society
Detroit, Michigan became the automobile manufacturing center of the world.
The automobile
Increased mobility
Allowed movement to the suburbs
Provided new jobs
Supported industries such as:
Steel
Road construction
tourism
Oil

11. Music, Art, and Literature
The Harlem Renaissance - a burst of creativity in Harlem during the 1920s

12. Music- -The Age of Jazz Louis Armstrong – jazz composer
Duke Ellington – jazz composer
Aaron Copeland – composer
Bessie Smith – blues singer
George Gershwin - composer

13. Georgia O’Keefe – artist Jacob Lawrence - painter

14. Literature Langston Hughes – poet F. Scott Fitzgerald – novelist
John Steinbeck - novelist

15. Key Individuals who impacted the 1920s
Henry Ford – model T
Clarence Darrow –
defense attorney for the
Scopes Trial
Gugelielmo Marconi-
the father of radio
David Sarnoff – head of
RCA ,began broadcast
journalism

16. Prohibition – the forbidding by law of the making or selling of alcoholic beverages
The Temperance Movement worked to rid alcohol in America.
The 18th Amendment made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages in our country It was passed in 1919.
Because the 18th Amendment didn’t work, Congress voted to pass the 21st Amendment which repealed the 18th Amendment.

17. The following resulted from the 18th Amendment
Moonshine – homemade alcohol
Bootleggers – people who made and sold alcohol illegally
Speakeasies – clubs where alcohol was sold illegally
Organized
crime

18. Changing Role of Women
The symbol of the 1920’s American women was the flapper. (women who were eager to try something new)
Women discovered more personal freedom in the 1920s.
drove cars
played sports
went to college
had new job opportunities