The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• A decade of diverse and changing culture

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National News

• Leopold and Loeb Trial

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National News

• The Scopes Trial

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Trends and Patterns in the 1920s

• The Red Scare
• The growth of professional sports Babe Ruth
  ends the dead ball era the NFL founded in 1920
• Excesses purchasing stock on margin flappers
  living for today and living large
• Prohibition and with it, organized crime and
  bootlegging (bath tub gin, rum runners speak
  easies)

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Trends and Patterns in the 1920s

• The motion picture industry takes off and the
  introduction of the talkie (The Jazz singer,
  1927) between 1922 and 1929, the number of
  regular weekly movie goers increased from 40
  million to 80 million
• Harlem Renaissance
• Great Migration
• Radio enters the American home (from 1922 to
  1929, the number of households with radios
  increased by 16,983 60,000 to 10,250,000
• Boom in newspaper and magazine circulation
• The birth of mass media

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Marketing and the Open Road

• Magazine circulation increases brought new
  advertising opportunities for American businesses
• People could see and learn about new technologies
  and ideas
• The automobile now being mass produced and
  affordable brought transportation to the
  doorstep of many Americans
• Billboards appear

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Migration

• Blacks moving in great numbers to northern cities
• Farm prices drop and the dust bowl begins forcing
  farmers to head west along Route 66 (Bobby Troupe
  wrote a song about the legendary road get your
  kicks on Rt 66)

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All That Jazz

• The New Orleans sound of Ragtime or Creole music
  evolves into jazz, blues and swing music
• Brought north with the Great Migration
• Jazz clubs and music halls
• New dances the Lindy Hop and the Charleston
  (named for the city in SC)
• Jazz became the soundtrack of the 1920s
• Yet it scared traditional white America