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The Roaring Twenties

• Many Americans favored traditional values while
  others favored change.
• Key terms flapper, mass media, expatriate,
  Prohibition, nativism quota system, evolution

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Sec. 4 Roaring Twenties

• May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became 1st person to
  fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean greatest
  hero of the 1920s.

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Changes for Women

• 1920s brought profound changes for women
• 19th Amendment - women vote
• - flappers symbolized the new
• woman
• What kinds of jobs were considered womens
  work?

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Entertainment

• Motion picture industry in Hollywood became one
  of countries leading businesses. What were the
  first movies like?
• Radio
• Sports Fads What fads swept the country
  during the roaring twenties?
• Mah-jongg, flagpole sitting, dance marathons
• Babe Ruth baseball hero hit 60 home runs

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The Jazz Age

• Jazz new kind of music with roots in the South
  in African American work songs in African music
  blend of ragtime and blues.
• Best known trumpeter Louis Armstrong, pianist
  composer Duke Ellington singer Bessie Smith

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Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Renaissance was the burst of creativity
  during the 1920s in the African American writers
  artists who gathered in Harlem, an African
  American section of New York City.
• Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance poet
• James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee
  Cullen Zora Neale Hurston Harlem Renaissance
  writers

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Lost Generation of Writers

• Other writers were questioning American ideals.
  Disappointed with American values in search of
  inspiration they settled in Paris. These writers
  were called expatriates.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway were
  famous expatriate writers.
• Sinclair Lewis Sherwood Anderson were writers
  who stayed in the U.S. wrote about life in
  America.

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Prohibition

• The clash of cultures during the 1920s affected
  many aspects of American life, particularly the
  use of alcoholic beverages.
• 1919 18th Amendment ratified which established
  prohibition.
• Congress passed the Volstead Act to provide the
  means of enforcing the ban on alcohol.
• The continuing demand for alcohol led to
  widespread lawbreaking.
• Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the 21st
  Amendment.

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Nativism

• The anxieties many native-born Americans felt
  about the rapid changes in society contributed to
  an upsurge of nativism.
• With this renewed nativism came a revival of the
  Ku Klux Klan.
• Congress responded to nativist fears by passing
  the Emergency Quota Act.

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The Scopes Trial

• Another cultural clash involved the role of
  religion in society.
• John Scopes deliberately broke Tennessee state
  law against teaching evolution so a trial could
  test its legality. Lawyers were Clarence Darrow
  William Jennings Bryan.

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Election of 1928

• 1927 Pres. Coolidge shocked everyone by
  announcing he would not run for a second full
  term.
• Herbert Hoover declared his candidacy for the
  Republic nomination. How had Hoover won respect
  during WWI?
• Hoover won the 1928 election by a landslide due
  to Republican prosperity of the 1920s prejudice
  against democratic candidate Alfred Smith.