Cultural Change of the 1920s

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Cultural Change of the 1920s
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Prohibition

• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
• Leads to illegal alcohol sales
• Speakeasies
• Gangsters and bootleggers

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Nativism
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Immigration Quotas
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The KKK

• Targeted and terrorized the un-American
• Gained strong political influence during the 1920s

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The Flapper

• Short skirts
• Bobbed hair
• Listened to jazz music (unconventional)
• Disdain for the socially acceptable

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The Harlem Renaissance
Duke Ellington
Alain Locke
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Marcus Garvey
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• What Do You Think?
• What, to you, is the biggest cultural change
  brought on by the Roaring Twenties?