1. 1920’s
The Good, The Bad,
And the Ugly

2. 1920’s
  The decade of the 1920s is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of bath tub gin, the model T, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It is often seen as a period of great advance as the nation became urban and commercial.

3. The Good

4. Harlem Renaissance
Between an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African-Americans occurred in all fields of art. It was a celebration of African American culture in literature and art

5. Harlem Art
Aaron Douglas

6. Poets, Musicians, and Artists
Langston Hughes
DREAMS
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow

7. Music
Jazz was hot. It was exciting and fun, and it provoked all the wildness the youth in the 1920's strived for. It's off-beat rhythms and improvised melodies were a welcome new beginning for music. New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, but it quickly spread and became extremely popular in New York City’s Harlem district.

8. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong http://www. youtube. com/watch

9. Bessie Smith http://www. youtube. com/watch

10. Dance Crazes Charleston Black Bottom Shimmy

11. Flappers
Now that women had the right to vote, they became more independent demanding more and more rights. Flappers were a "new breed" of young women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms

12. Fashion for Shebas Cloche Flapper Bob

13. Century: Boom to Bust

14. Movies
The film industry really bloomed in the 1920’s. The first movies were filmed in New Jersey. Films of the 1920's were in major demand. Most of the productions were silent and theaters were packed every night. The Big 5 included MGM, Fox, and Warner Brothers. Minor studios at the time were Universal Studios, United Artists, and Columbia Pictures.

15. Clara Bow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxo_99eaEEA
Clara Bow stared in “It”
and “Wings”. After starring
in the movie “It” she was
called the “It” Girl. Mary
Pickford and Gloria
Swanson were
also popular. When talkie
movies became popular
Clara lost her job.

16. Betty Boop
Banned now this Betty Boop cartoon showed how racism existed in the 1920’s

17. Charlie Chaplin One of the greatest comedians of all time.
Rudolph Valentino-Lawrence of Arabia
Douglas Fairbanks-Zorro
Robin Hood

18. Fashion for Sheiks

19. Radio
An invention, which soon after became a popular fad, was the radio. The radio was immensely popular. (Remember: there is no TV at this time) Radio did everything the TV does for us. If you tuned in at the right time, you could catch comedy shows, news, live events, jazz, variety shows, drama, opera, you name it, the radio had it!

20. Abbott and Costello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

21. Fads Smoking in public Extreme dieting Bobbed hair Showing your knees
Marathons
Feats of Endurance-Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earheart
Flagpole Sitters

22. Arts and Architecture Skyscrapers were erected and hundreds of
architects competed for
the work. The first
successful design was
the Woolworth Building
in New York.

23. Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was prolific during this period, designing homes in California and in Japan. 

26. Surrealism
Salvador Dali

27. Dadaism
Dadaism was an art movement. The Dadaists were mainly a group of ill-organized artists experimenting with bizarre art and literature. The artists wanted to take modern art into a direction that would broaden the meaning of "what art was and could be".

29. Culture
One of the biggest cultural developments of the 1920’s was the rise of spectator sports.
Golf was at the height of its popularity in the 1920’s
Olympics were extremely popular
But the number one sport of the 1920’s was:

30. Baseball
The Babe

31. Harry Houdini

32. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon came out in 1928. Steamboat Willie

33. Pooh A book that was published was Winnie the Pooh.
Everybody enjoyed this book
and fell in love
with this cartoon character.

34. Inventions We are still benefiting from many of
the inventions of the twenties.  The
refrigerator was brought out of the
dust.  It changed  the convenience of
the world today. Can you
imagine? Always having
to run to a cellar, This could
be a pain, especially in the
middle of the winter.  
    

35. Frozen Food
Another invention for convenience was the method of freezing precooked foods.  In 1925, Clarence Birdseye created this method, which took the food industry to a whole new level

36. Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered by accident in 1928 by Alexander Fleming.  Doctors used the first samples of this antibiotic for World War II soldiers. Penicillin is still used frequently to cure illness. 

37. Cars Possibly the most significant change during the 20's was the mass
production of the Car started by Henry
Ford, he had manufactured and
sold some 15 million
Model-Ts by 1927
Nicknamed Tin Lizzie
Only available in black

38. The Bad Gangsters, Crime and Prohibition WCTU against drinking
Prohibition-18th amendment-Volstead Act
Illegal drinking establishments-speakeasies
Rise of bootlegging
Al Capone
Rise of the KKK

40. Alphonsus Capone Scarface
Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.
100,000,000 a year income
80-90% of cops on payroll in Chicago
Enemy Bugs Moran “St Valentines Day massacre
Final arrest
Dies

41. Red Scare
The First Red Scare was "a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent--a revolution that would destroy property, church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life."

42. The Ugly Sacco and Vanzetti anarchists U.S.
Anti-immigrant (xenophobic)
Found guilty and executed

43. Scopes Monkey Trial The Teaching of Evolution vs. Creationism
William Jennings Bryant/Clarence Darrow
Why has religion been discouraged
in schools?

44. Ku Klux Klan
The decade is also seen as a period of rising intolerance and isolation. The rise of the Ku Klux Klan, restrictive immigration laws, and prohibition are indications of this. Klan gained political power in the 1920’s due to resentment of cultural change coming from Northern cities. Historians usually see the 1920s as a decade of serious cultural conflict. 

46. The Century Boom to Bust Part 3

47. Can you guess what these slang terms mean?

48. Bees knees
Bump off
Cheaters
Dogs
Gams
Giggle water
Jake

49. That’s why it was called the roaring twenties