1. The Roaring 20s

2. Why do you think the 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties?

3. Major Social Changes Traditional Moral Values v. Modern Values
Parties, dancing, music, art ideals are changing
Improvements in technology and urbanization created a higher standard of living for some Americans.

4. Why might all of these people be celebrating?

5. Armistice - End of WWI!

6. Time to celebrate!!!

7. …wait just a minute

8. Prohibition
Manufacture and sale of alcohol outlawed in 1920

9. …but people drank anyway

10. Bootleggers Prohibition gave rise to organized crime
Police could not stop the all of the sale of illegal alcohol

11. Al Capone
Famous Chicago mobster made money from bootlegging

12. Speakeasies
Secret bars and clubs where people went to drink

13. Modern Women Flappers Smoked and drank in public
Wore their hair and dresses short

14. Immigration Restriction v. Golden Door
Quota system - set up a maximum number of immigrants from each country
Kept out Southern and Eastern Europeans
Kept out Japanese

15. Hispanic Immigration
Hispanics took advantage of the fact that they were excluded from the quotas set, and over 600,000 moved to the US to fill the labor gap

16. Fundamentalism v. Modernism
Discourse of the 1920s between Evangelical Christians and groups that embraced science and secular values
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was brought to trial in Tennessee for teaching evolution in the classroom
He was found guilty
The high profile trial brought attention to the tension between religion and science
Anti-Evolution League book sale." Image. AP/Wide World Photos. American History. ABC-CLIO, Web. 21 Nov

17. Harlem Renaissance
Movement in art, literature, music, that centered on African-American culture

18. What kind of music would they have been dancing to?

19. Jazz
Started in New Orleans, but became a cultural force in New York

22. Louis Armstrong

23. Duke Ellington

24. Cab Calloway

25. Bessie Smith

26. But it wasn’t just music…

27. New Dances
Charleston
Black Bottom
Lindy Hop

28. Josephine Baker

29. …and new writers
Claude McKay

30. Zora Neale Hurston

31. Langston Hughes

32. …and thinkers

33. DuBois and Garvey Radical approach to civil rights
Back to Africa movement

34. The Lost Generation “Lost Generation”
Group of writers who moved to Europe
Not happy with the direction of American culture
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein

35. John Marin
Modernist artist best known for his watercolors and abstract landscape paintings

36. Edward Hopper Realist painter
Many of his paintings are dark and feature scenes of urban life
Focused on using light and shadow and on placement of his figures within his paintings to strike the proper mood

37. Leisure Time Professional sports Amusement Parks National Parks Films
Babe Ruth
Amusement Parks
National Parks
Films

38. Sports
Many spectator sports were extremely popular, including golf, tennis, boxing, and swimming
Baseball had become “America’s pass time”
Football began to gain prominence with the founding of the National Football League (NFL) in 1920

39. Silent Films
Many early films were comedies because “slapstick” provided effective visuals
Most successful actor of the 1920s was comedic star Charlie Chaplin

40. Metropolis (1927)
Silent film made in Germany which many consider to be the first significant “science fiction” film ever made
Silent movies, since they used no spoken language, could be effectively played anywhere in the world

41. The Jazz Singer (1927)
First “talkie” or film which had a synchronized soundtrack for dialogue This film’s success led to the end of the silent picture era