The Jazz Age

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The Jazz Age

• Section 1
• A Clash of Values

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Nativism Resurges

• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
• Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who
  were anarchist
• Pseudo-Scientific Racism
• Eugenics Movement
• A false science
• Human inequalities were inherited
• Ku Klux Klan
• Were against anyone who was not American, not
  Protestant, and not white
• 4 million members by 1924 due to the hiring of
  public relations people to promote membership

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Controlling Immigration

• Emergency Quota Act
• Limited immigration
• Only 3 of one ethnic group could immigrate to
  the U.S.
• The National Origins Act
• Made immigrant restriction a permanent policy
• Set new quota at 2
• Did not apply to Mexican immigrants
• Hispanic Immigration
• Employers needed agriculture, mining, and
  railroad laborers
• Two waves of immigration
• 1914 (70,000 Hispanic immigrants)
• 1924 (600,000 Hispanic immigrants)

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The New Morality

• Personal Freedom
• Women attending college
• automobiles
• Women in the 1920s
• Flapper
• Women changing behavior in the 1920s
• Smoked cigarettes
• Drank liquor
• Dressed in revealing attire

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Fundamentalist Movement

• Fundamentalist Beliefs
• Reassert the authority of the Bible
• Rejected evolution
• Humans developed from lower forms of life
• Creationism
• God created the world
• The Scopes Trial
• Clash between fundamentalism and modernism
• Arrested in Tennessee for teaching evolution

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Prohibition

• Eighteenth Amendment
• Ban on the sell of alcohol
• Led to an increase in Police Powers
• More power in the interest of public safety,
  health, and welfare
• Bootlegging
• Illegal distribution of alcohol
• Twenty First Amendment
• Repealed prohibition

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The Jazz Age

• Section 2
• Cultural Innovations

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Art and Literature

• Greenwich Village and South Side
• Many writers, intellectuals, and artists
• Bohemian
• Artistic and unconventional lifestyles
• Poets and Writers
• Eugene ONeill
• Portrayed realistic characters and situations in
  his playwrights (tragedy)
• Ernest Hemingway
• Wrote fiction about flawed individuals who had
  heroic qualities during WWI
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Created colorful glamorous characters who chased
  futile dreams

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Art and Literature

• Edward Hopper
• Conveyed disenchantment and isolation

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Popular Culture

• Rise of Hollywood
• 1927, the first talking picture The Jazz Singer
  
• golden age of Hollywood began
• Radio Shows and Music
• Commercial Radio
• KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasted the news of Warren
  G. Hardings landside victory in the presidential
  election
• Within 2 years, 400 different radio stations
  around the country
• Mass Media
• Helped spread the new ideas and attitudes of the
  1920s
• Radio, magazines, newspapers, and movies

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Popular Culture

• Sports
• Baseball
• Babe Ruth became famous for hitting hundreds of
  home runs
• Boxing
• Jack Dempsey held the heavy weight title for 7
  years
• Stores sold 90,000 in radios