The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• The Jazz Age

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• FACTS about this decade.
• 106,521,537 people in the United States 
• 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2 
• Life expectancy  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6 
• 343,000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in
  1919) 
  
• Average annual earnings 1236  Teacher's salary 
  970 
  
• Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6 of the
  population.  
  
• Gangland crime included murder, swindles,
  racketeering 
  
• It took 13 days to reach California from New
  York  There were 387,000 miles of paved road. 

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Warren G. Harding, Rep.

• Harding died while in office, perhaps due to the
  scandals that dogged his presidency. Chief
  scandal was the Teapot Dome oil leasing by his
  Sec. Of the Interior, Albert Fall. His V.P.,
  Silent Calvin Coolidge became our next
  president.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

• Sec. Of the Interior, Albert Fall, leased the
  Naval oil reserves WITHOUT competitive bidding.
  
• He became the first presidential cabinet member
  to go to jail.

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Gertrude Ederle

• First woman to swim the English Channel (20
  miles). Broke the mens record by over 2 hours
  this record stood for 35 years!

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Calvin Coolidge - 30th Pres.Republican Party

• Kellogg-Briand Treaty was one of his
  accomplishments. The Kellogg-Briand Treaty would
  supposedly outlaw war. Ironically Adolph Hitler
  was beginning his climb to power in Germany.

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Gertrude Stein

• Woman writer who coined the phrase The Lost
  Generation to describe the Americans who moved
  to Europe (mostly France) in despair over
  conditions in America. These Americans are known
  as ex-patriots

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Henry Ford

• His Model T was also known as a Tin Lizzie or a
  flivver. He changed America forever, thanks to
  his electric assembly line to mass produce cars.

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The Model T

• Could go just about anywhere and for only around
  300 bucks!

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A model T

• But its not black!!

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The changes made by the car

• Highway system was built for cars
• Motels were created for car travelers
• Fast food restaurants were developed
• Jobs created
• service/gas stations - rubber industry (tires)
• tourism flourished - need for motels, food
• parking garages
• buses and taxi cabs

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Charles Lucky Lindbergh
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• Charles Lucky Lindberg flew from the U.S. to
  France, alone, for a 25,000 prize.
  
• He was one of the greatest heroes of the 20s.
• He plane was named THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS.

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Amelia Earhart

• Our first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
• Amelia is another symbol of womens
  rightssometimes she was referred to as Lady
  Lindy.

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• President Herbert Hoover and Amelia Earhart,
  famous aviatrix (female pilot)

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• Marcus Garvey began the back to Africa
  movement. Although the movement failed, he
  provided African Americans a new sense of pride

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Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes was a great African American
  writer and poet. He was religious and had a deep
  respect for women. He loved Harlem and lived
  there until he died in 1967.

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Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

• What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry
  upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a
  sore--And then run?Does it stink like rotten
  meat?Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy
  sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or
  does it explode?

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Countee Cullen
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Incident by Countee Cullen

• Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled,
  head-filled with glee,I saw a BaltimoreanKeep
  looking straight at me.
  
• Now I was eight and very small,And he was no
  whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked
  outHis tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
  
• I saw the whole of BaltimoreFrom May until
  DecemberOf all the things that happened
  thereThat's all that I remember.
  

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Bessie Smith, blues singer
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Duke Ellington

• One of the all time great Jazz musicians and
  composers.

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Texas Guinan - speakeasy owner
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• All Wet - Describes an erroneous idea or
  individual, as in, "he's all wet."
  
• Applesauce - an expletive (curse) same as
  horse-feathers, As in "Ah applesauce!"
  
• Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing,
  idea the ultimate.
  
• Berries - That which is attractive or pleasing
  similar to bee's knees, As in "It's the berries."
  
  
• Big Cheese - The most important or influential
  person boss. Same as big shot.
  
• Blind Date - going out with someone you do not
  know
  
• Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a
  prude
  
• Bump Off - To murder, To kill.
• Cake-Eater - An effete (sissy) ladies' man, or
  someone who attends tea parties.
  
• Carry a Torch - To have a crush on someone.
• Cat's Pajamas - Same as cat's meow.

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• Cheaters - Eyeglasses.
• Crush - An infatuation.
• Dogs - feet.
• Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a
  street corner trying to pick up girls
  
• Dumb Dora - a stupid female.
• Fall Guy - Victim of a frame.
• Flapper - A stylish, brash, hedonistic young
  woman with short skirts and shorter hair.
  
• Flat Tire - A dull witted, insipid, disappointing
  date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan.
  
• Frame - To give false evidence, to set up
  someone.
  
• Gams - A woman's legs.

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• Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage alcohol.
  
  
• Gin Mill - An establishment where hard liquor is
  sold bar.
  
• Hard Boiled - a tough, strong guy.
• Heebie-Jeebies - The jitters.
• High-Hat - To snub.
• Hooch - Bootleg liquor
• Hoofer - Dancer.
• Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing.
• Jake - OK, as in, "Everything is Jake."
• Jalopy - Old car.
• Joint - A club, usually selling alcohol.
• Keen - Attractive or appealing.
• Sheik - A man with sex appeal (from the Valentino
  movies).
  

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• Kisser - Mouth.
• Line - Insincere flattery.
• Lounge Lizard - a guy that is sexually active.
• Moll - A gangster's girl.
• Neck - Kissing with passion.
• Ossified - a drunk person.
• Pet - Same as neck, but more so.
• Pinch - To arrest.
• Pushover - A person easily convinced or seduced.
  
  
• Ritzy - Elegant (from the hotel).
• Scram - Ask someone to leave immediately.
• Sheba - A woman with sex appeal (from the move
  Queen of Sheba) or (e.g. Clara Bow).
  

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• Speakeasy - An illicit bar selling bootleg
  liquor.
  
• Spiffy - An elegant appearance.
• Struggle Buggy - the backseat of a car. A
  parent's worst nightmare.
  
• Stuck On - Having a crush on.
• Swanky - Ritzy.
• Swell - Wonderful. Also a rich man.
• Take for a Ride - To drive off with someone in
  order to bump them off.
  
• Torpedo - A hired gun.
• Upchuck - To vomit when one has drunk too much.
• Whoopee - To have a good time.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Famous architect who believed a home should fit
  in with its environment, using natural materials
  and appearance

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Chrysler Building-NYC
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William Jennings Bryan

• Ran for president 3 times, Bryan prosecuted John
  Scopes in the Monkey Trial. He won, but the
  victory was considered hollow. He died a few
  days after the trial.

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Clarence Darrow Bryan
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Suffragettes fighting for the vote
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Margaret Sanger

• Pioneered the first birth control program in the
  U.S. Was arrested for handing out pornography

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The Flapper
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Shoeless Joe Jackson

• Baseballs first major scandal-a fix on the world
  series -
  
• say it aint so, Joe!

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The Red Scare

• The Palmer raids - many Russian immigrants were
  arrested and sent back to the U.S.S.R., even tho
  they had done no wrong. We would have another
  Red Scare in the 1950s.

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Prohibition - Volstead Act

• The 18th amendment prohibited the sale and
  consumption of alcoholic beverages. This law
  helped to increase organized crime and the rise
  of the mobsters...

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Al Scarface Capone

• One of Chicagos most notorious gangsters! He
  was responsible for the St. Valentines Day
  Massacre. He died of syphilis.

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Thompson Submachine gun

• Also known as the tommy gun-
• gangsters favorite weapon

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St. Valentines day massacre
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• Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest film
  comedians. His character, The little tramp
  combined comedy with sadness.

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The first talking picture

• The Jazz Singer was the first talking motion
  picture. Although studio executives thought
  talkies were just a temporary fad, they were
  wrong!

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George Gershwin

• Gershwin made Jazz acceptable to white audiences.
  Some of his most famous works are Porgy and
  Bess, an American opera and Rhapsody in Blue

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Babe Ruth

• One of the NY Yankees famous murderers of
  murderers row also known as the Sultan of Swat
  and the Big Bambino

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Benjamin O. Davis

• First African American to achieve the rank of
  General in the army (1940s). Taught military
  tactics at Tuskegee Institute.
  
• His son became the 1st Af. Am. Air Force General.

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Flapper fashions
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Ku Klux Klan
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Fatty Arbuckle

• One of the great Hollywood scandals of the 20s.
  Arbuckle was a popular movie star who was accused
  of raping and murdering a young starlet. Found
  innocent, his career was still ruined.

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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Found guilty!

• Of being Italian anarchists

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Considered one of the great writers of the 20s,
  Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were famous for
  their boozing and partying. His greatest work may
  be THE GREAT GATSBY.

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Harry Houdini escape artist
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The Oxford Bags
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Marion Davies (Hearsts sweetie)
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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 1st Zorro
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Mary Pickford, Americas Sweetheart
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Clara Bow it girl
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Lon Chaney The Man of 1,000 Faces
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Rudolph Valentino 30,000 women attended his
funeral
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Greta Garbo I want to be alone
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Will Rogers - humorist

• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
  to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
  
• All I know is what I read in the papers.
• A fool and his money are soon elected.
• There's no trick to being a humorist when you
  have the whole government working for you.
  
• Half our life is spent trying to find something
  to do with the time we have rushed through life
  trying to save.
  
• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to
  somebody else. The income tax has made more
  liars out of the American people than golf has.

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• We don't know what we want, but we are ready to
  bite somebody to get it.
  
• We can't all be heroes because somebody has to
  sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
  
• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government
  and report the facts.

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• I never met a man I didn't like
• All I know is what I read in the papers
• Presidents become great, but they have to be made
  Presidents first
  
• Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking
  for freedom
  
• I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars
  and there is no more humor in 'em than there is
  reason for 'em
  
• Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until
  you can pick up a rock.

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• No man is great if he thinks he is.
• Everybody is ignorant. Only on different
  subjects.
  
• If stupidity got us in to this mess, how come it
  can't get us out?
  
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run
  over if you just sit there.