The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• As America recovers from World War I and goes
  back to its isolationist roots, the people of
  America look to find a new direction in life.

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How We Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm After
Theyve Seen Pari (Paris)?

• After the war, the whole world was
  shell-shocked as to how much destruction had
  been done. Soldiers came back with a sudden
  realization there were no guarantees that a
  person would live a long life- if another war
  began. So live for today became the motto
  enjoy life because you may not be around if war
  breaks out again. So, the Roaring Twenties were
  a Party Hardy Decade on the surface, but there
  was also some fear that most people felt that
  life could end unexpectedly.
• FYI The title of this slide was the 1 song in
  the early 1920s!

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Womens Rights Fashion Sense

• In 1920, women suffragists finally got the right
  to vote for women. The elections of 1920, 1924,
  1928 were the first elections that women voted.
  Rebecca Felton, a Georgian, was the 1st female to
  serve in the U.S. Senate for one day after
  Senator Tom Watson had passed away this was an
  honor for all her work for Georgia during the
  Progressive Era. (The governor of Georgia then
  later chose a permanent replacement for Senator
  Watson).

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Flapper The New Womana somewhat foolish girl,
full of wild surmises and inclined to revolt
against precepts and admonitions of her
elders. H.L. Mencken
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Bessie Crowell Viola Napier

• These two women were the first to serve in the
  Georgia General Assembly.
• Women broke many social traditions shorter hair,
  shorter skirts, etc. Urban life became radically
  different from rural life.

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Prohibition Era
Al Capone
Elliot Ness

• One of the great experiments of the 20th century
  was Prohibition. This constitutional amendment
  outlawed the making and selling of alcohol. This
  amendment came out of the Temperance Movement
  from the Progressive Era. But people refused to
  stop drinking and they bought alcohol supplied by
  gangsters like Al Capone. The Federal Bureau of
  Investigation (FBI), led by Elliott Ness J.
  Edgar Hoover, fought to stop the gangsters like
  Capone. By the end of the decade, Prohibition was
  repealed, making it the only amendment to the
  U.S. Constitution to be removed from law.

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Prohibition Era
A Speak-Easy
"The Charleston"
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New Language Slang

• Hey, that flapper is standing by the tin lizzy.
  If her dogs are tired, then, maybe shell let me
  take her to the speak-easy for some giggle water!
  Maybe we can cut a rug as well! I hope so,
  because shes the cats meow! I just hope she
  thinks Im dapper the bees knees and not just
  a flat tire.
• This uses 8 different phrases from the 1920s
  what do you think it means?

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New Language Slang Translation

• Hey, that pretty girl is standing by my car. If
  her feet are tired, maybe shell let me drive her
  to the restaurant for some dinner and drinks. We
  might even dance the Charleston! Shes the most
  beautiful girl ever! I hope she thinks Im cool,
  and not just a boring person!

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Music of the 1920s

• Jazz music has been called spur of the moment
  magic because of the improvisation of the band.
  Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous
  musicians of the era.
• Blues music also was created during this era.
  Itis about lost love, loneliness, poverty, or
  jealousy. Ma Rainey, from Georgia, was known as
  Mother of the Blues.

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The Great Migration

• During the 1920s, there was a movement of
  African-American citizens to leave their job as
  tenant farmers and to move North- to cities like
  Chicago and Detroit, looking for work. In this
  time of Separate But Equal, people were looking
  for a chance for true equality in jobs.

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Technology of the 1920s
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Heroes of the 1920s

• In 1927, Charles Lindbergh, a 25 year old pilot,
  became the first person to fly a non-stop solo
  flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew from
  New York to Paris, with only sandwiches and
  coffee for the 33 ½ hour flight. He became an
  international hero on both sides of the Atlantic
  Ocean. Six months later, he flew to Atlanta and
  was greeted by 20,000 people. (Lindbergh Drive
  was also named for him).

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Heroes of the 1920s

• Ben Epps was known as the Father of aviation in
  Georgia. A native of Athens, he was inspired by
  the Wright brothers and built a light monoplane
  (one wing) that he hoped would be a model for
  passenger planes in the future.

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Delta Air Lines

• In 1924, some crop-dusting pilots in Macon, led
  by Collette Woodman, got together to form a
  mail-delivery service by the air. It soon became
  a passenger service, and now Delta (named for
  serving the Mississippi Delta region of the
  country). It is now the 2nd largest airline in
  the U.S., and its headquarters is located in
  Atlanta.

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Heroes of the 1920s

• Other Georgia heroes were Ty Cobb (The Georgia
  Peach) and Bobby Jones. Cobb was one of the 1st
  players in the Hall of Fame he had a lifetime
  batting average of .367 and he had the career
  stolen base record of 892!
• Bobby Jones won golfs Grand Slam (top 4 events)
  in one year, and one 13 championships in his
  career. He later designed Augusta National golf
  course. Later in life, Jones was stricken with a
  crippling disease. When asked about it, Jones
  said We all have to play the ball as it lies.

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Heroes of the 1920s

• Motions pictures became a huge entertainment
  business in this decade. Hollywood was created
  as the great silent, black-and-white movies of
  the day were created.
• The first millionaire actor was the legendary
  Charlie Chaplin.

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Places of the 1920s

• Atlanta also was growing in the downtown area.
  One of its greatest attractions, the Fabulous Fox
  theater, was established during this decade. Its
  wonderful ambience was saved in the 1970s when a
  campaign was done to raise money to Save the
  Fox from being torn down.

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Places of the 1920s

• In 1928, another Atlanta tradition was started
  near the Georgia Tech campus. The Varsity
  restaurant became a great place to go before a
  football game or an event at the nearby Fox
  Theater. It is still a vital part of downtown
  Atlanta today (and theres a restaurant in
  Gwinnett too)!

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Laissez-Faire An Economic Policy that means,
hands off!

• In the 1920s, the Republicans won the White
  House from Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats.
  These 3 Republican Presidents believed in
  laissez-faire economics. Laissez-faire is a
  French phrase that means hands-off, implying
  that the federal government should not tax too
  much, nor should tell people how to save, spend,
  or invest their money. That also means the
  nations economy is left to the marketplace to
  work out any problems that may arise. As more
  people began to borrow money for investing in the
  stock market, the economys motor began to
  overheat and the Great Depression was soon
  approaching.

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Warren G. Harding

• Warren G. Harding was the 1st president of the
  1920s. His election slogan Return to
  Normalcy.
• Why would this had been a good slogan for the 1st
  president AFTER World War I?
• Harding faced the Teapot Dome Scandal while in
  office some of his Cabinet members had made some
  shady land deals without his knowledge.

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Calvin Coolidge

• Calvin Silent Cal Coolidge became the next
  President after President Harding dies in office.
  Ironically, he rarely gave long speeches and yet
  he was the 1st president to be heard on the
  radio.
• FYI One time a lady met Coolidge and proclaimed
  Mr. President, I know you dont like to talk too
  much, but I know youd say three words to me!
• Coolidge replied, You lose.
• FYI Coolidge was the only president to be sworn
  in by a family member his dad was a Justice of
  the Peace, and he quickly gave his son the
  Presidential oath after word came in the middle
  of the night of President Hardings unexpected
  death. This way the country was not without a
  president for very long.

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Herbert Hoover

• Hoover was the third Republican president of the
  1920s. The continuing laissez-faire economic
  policy was setting up the country for the Great
  Depression.
• FYI Some people lost their homes and lived in
  temporary homes in public parks these were
  sarcastically called Hoovervilles.

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Stock Market Crash

• On October 24, 1929, the Stock Market crashed
  as people began to sell all of the stocks that
  they had borrowed to buy. This caused the price
  value of the stock to fall, people could not
  repay back their loans, and so banks could not
  give people their savings (because they had
  loaned them out). So, many people lost their
  money in the Stock Market Crash without ever
  having bought stocks themselves.

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Boll Weevil Adds to Georgias Misery

• Georgia also had some unexpected company when
  the boll weevil migrated from Mexico Texas.
  When these insects descended on a cotton crop to
  digest it, a farmers whole years crop could be
  destroyed and bankruptcy could soon follow. This
  Boll Weevil song tried to help people laugh
  instead of cry over their losses.

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Who Knew How to End the Great Depression?
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Who Knew How to End the Great Depression?