1920

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1920s

• The Good, The Bad,
• And the Ugly

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1920s

•   The decade of the 1920s is often characterized
  as a period of American prosperity and optimism.
  It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of bath
  tub gin, the model T, the 5 work day, the first
  transatlantic flight, and the movie. It is often
  seen as a period of great advance as the nation
  became urban and commercial.

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The Good
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Harlem Renaissance

• Between 1920-1930 an unprecedented outburst of
  creative activity among African-Americans
  occurred in all fields of art. It was a
  celebration of African American culture in
  literature and art

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Harlem Art

• Aaron Douglas

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Poets, Musicians, and Artists

• Langston Hughes
• DREAMS
• Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is
  a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold
  fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a
  barren field Frozen with snow

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Music

• Jazz was hot. It was exciting and fun, and it
  provoked all the wildness the youth in the 1920's
  strived for. It's off-beat rhythms and improvised
  melodies were a welcome new beginning for music.
  New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, but it
  quickly spread and became extremely popular in
  New York Citys Harlem district.

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Louis Satchmo Armstronghttps//www.youtube.com/
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Bessie Smithhttps//www.youtube.com/watch?v6MzU8
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Dance Crazes

• Charleston
• Black Bottom
• Shimmy

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Flappers

• Now that women had the right to vote, they became
  more independent demanding more and more rights.
  Flappers were a "new breed" of young women in the
  1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed hair,
  listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for
  what was then considered acceptable behavior.
  Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive
  makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual
  manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and
  otherwise flouting social and sexual norms

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Fashion for ShebasCloche
Flapper Bob
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Century Boom to Bust

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfoooDFF9Dgs

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Movies

• The film industry really bloomed in the 1920s.
  The first movies were filmed in New Jersey. Films
  of the 1920's were in major demand. Most of the
  productions were silent and theaters were packed
  every night. The Big 5 included MGM, Fox, and
  Warner Brothers. Minor studios at the time were
  Universal Studios, United Artists, and Columbia
  Pictures.

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Clara Bowhttps//www.youtube.com/watch?vwqYkjmbW
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• Clara Bow stared in It
• and Wings. After starring
• in the movie It she was
• called the It Girl. Mary
• Pickford and Gloria
• Swanson were
• also popular. When talkie
• movies became popular
• Clara lost her job.

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Betty Boop

• Banned now this Betty Boop cartoon showed how
  racism existed in the 1920s
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNIxHfwhckcs

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Charlie Chaplin

• One of the greatest comedians
• of all time.
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vIxWhaFrBz64
• Rudolph Valentino-
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Douglas Fairbanks-Zorro
• Robin Hood

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Fashion for Sheiks
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Radio

• An invention, which soon after became a popular
  fad, was the radio. The radio was immensely
  popular. (Remember there is no TV at this time)
  Radio did everything the TV does for us. If you
  tuned in at the right time, you could catch
  comedy shows, news, live events, jazz, variety
  shows, drama, opera, you name it, the radio had
  it!

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Abbott and Costellohttps//www.youtube.com/watch?
vJ_gSWTQKE-0
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Fads

• Smoking in public
• Extreme dieting
• Bobbed hair
• Showing your knees
• Marathons
• Feats of Endurance-Charles Lindbergh
• Amelia Earhart
• Flagpole Sitters

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Arts and Architecture

• Skyscrapers were erected
• and hundreds of
• architects competed for
• the work. The first
• successful design was
• the Woolworth Building
• in New York.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Frank Lloyd Wright was prolific during this
  period, designing homes in California and in
  Japan. 

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Surrealism

• Salvador Dali

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Dadaism

• Dadaism was an art movement. The Dadaists were
  mainly a group of ill-organized artists
  experimenting with bizarre art and literature.
  The artists wanted to take modern art into a
  direction that would broaden the meaning of "what
  art was and could be".

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Culture

• One of the biggest cultural developments of the
  1920s was the rise of spectator sports.
• Golf was at the height of its popularity in the
  1920s
• Olympics were extremely popular
• But the number one sport of the 1920s was

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Baseball

• The Babe
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vxyFaLT-L2uk

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Harry Houdini
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• The first Mickey Mouse cartoon came out in 1928.
  Steamboat Willie

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Pooh

• A book that was published
• was Winnie the Pooh. 
• Everybody enjoyed this book
• and fell in love
• with this cartoon character.

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Inventions

• We are still benefiting from many of
• the inventions of the twenties.  The
• refrigerator was brought out of the
• dust.  It changed  the convenience of
• the world today. Can you
• imagine? Always having
• to run to a cellar, This could
• be a pain, especially in the
• middle of the winter.  
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Frozen Food

• Another invention for convenience was the method
  of freezing precooked foods.  In 1925, Clarence
  Birdseye created this method, which took the food
  industry to a whole new level

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Penicillin

• Penicillin was discovered by accident in 1928 by
  Alexander Fleming.  Doctors used the first
  samples of this antibiotic for World War II
  soldiers. Penicillin is still used frequently to
  cure illness. 

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Cars

• Possibly the most significant change
• during the 20's was the mass
• production of the Car started by Henry
• Ford, he had manufactured and
• sold some 15 million
• Model-Ts by 1927
• Nicknamed Tin Lizzie
• Only available in black

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The Bad

• Gangsters, Crime and Prohibition
• WCTU against drinking
• Prohibition-18th amendment-Volstead Act
• Illegal drinking establishments-speakeasies
• Rise of bootlegging
• Al Capone
• Rise of the KKK

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfoooDFF9Dgs
• Start at the beginning

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Alphonsus Capone

• Scarface
• Capone had a leading role in the illegal
  activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a
  lawless city.
• 100,000,000 a year income
• 80-90 of cops on payroll in Chicago
• Enemy Bugs Moran St Valentines Day massacre
• Final arrest
• Dies

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Red Scare

• The First Red Scare was "a nation-wide
  anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear
  and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in
  America was imminent--a revolution that would
  destroy property, church, home, marriage,
  civility, and the American way of life."

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The Ugly

• Sacco and Vanzetti
• anarchists
• U.S.
• Anti-immigrant (xenophobic)
• Found guilty and executed

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Scopes Monkey Trial

• The Teaching of Evolution vs. Creationism
• William Jennings Bryant/Clarence Darrow
• Why has religion been discouraged
• in schools?

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Ku Klux Klan

• The decade is also seen as a period of rising
  intolerance and isolation. The rise of the Ku
  Klux Klan, restrictive immigration laws, and
  prohibition are indications of this. Klan gained
  political power in the 1920s due to resentment
  of cultural change coming from Northern cities.
  Historians usually see the 1920s as a decade of
  serious cultural conflict. 

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The Century Boom to Bust Part 3

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsPP7FE8RIbY

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• Can you guess what these slang terms mean?

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• Bees knees
• Bump off
• Cheaters
• Dogs
• Gams
• Giggle water
• Jake

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• Bees knees- awesome
• Bump off-kill
• Cheaters-eyeglasses
• Dogs-feet
• Gams-legs
• Giggle water-alcohol
• Jake-ok

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• Thats why it was called the roaring twenties