1. THE ROARING TWENTIES The American Age of Ballyhoo The Jazz Age

2. Why were the 1920s the “Roaring Twenties”? - time of rapid change - people felt unsettled - technological and scientific breakthroughs - widening split between urban and rural life - morality seemed to be changing in the disillusionment following WWI

3. Changes and experiments in 1920 society -Relaxed sense of morality - the clash over evolution; the Scopes trial - the “Noble Experiment” – prohibition - suffragettes - Margaret Sanger -Urbanization - racial tensions; the Klun Klux Klan’s resurgence - the Harlem Renaissance

4. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre King of the Bootleggers, Al Capone

5. Suffragettes marching infavor of the 19 th Amendment

6. John T. Scopes Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan

7. Marcus Garvey Madame CJ Walker Duke Ellington W.E.B. DuBose Zora Neal Hurston Langston Hughes

9. Education and Entertainment -Changes in public schools - the challenge of immigrant children in schools - the popularity of silent movies - Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino -Important films -1903 The Great Train Robbery -1915 Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith) - 1927 The Jazz Singer - Odd fads

10. The “It Girl” – Clara Bow Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Charlie Chaplin The Little Tramp

12. -The mass media continued to expand - more magazines and newspapers - the importance of radio - 1920s literature included several key themes - materialism; F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis, Main Street and Babbitt - anti-war themes; Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms - dehumanization of modern era; T.S. Elliot, The Wasteland

13. 1920s Heroes Charles Lindbergh- solo flight across Atlantic Ocean Herman “Babe” Ruth – Sultan of Swat Red Grange – the “Galloping Ghost” Knute Rockne- Notre Dame coach Jack Dempsey – boxing champion Bobby Jones – golf champion Tennis and horse racing also popular sports Spectator sports became an American passion

14. Charles Lindbergh And Babe Ruth