1920s

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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 advancements as the
  nation became urban and commercial.

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The Good
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Harlem Renaissance

• Between 1920-1930 an unprecedented surge 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
• What happens to a dream deferred?
• Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or
  fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it
  stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar
  over-- like a syrupy sweet?
• Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
• Or does it explode?

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Music

• Jazz was hot. It was exciting and fun, and it
  provoked all the wildness the youth in the 1920s
  strived for. Its off-beat rhythms and improvised
  melodies were a welcomed 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 Armstronghttp//www.youtube.com/w
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Bessie Smithhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?v2cngx_
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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 and demanded 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 disregard
  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 breaking social, sexual, and feminine
  norms

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Fashion for ShebasCloche
Flapper Bob
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Movies

• The film industry bloomed in the 1920s. The first
  movies were filmed in New Jersey. Films of the
  1920s 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. Smaller studios at the time
  were Universal, United Artists, and Columbia
  Pictures.

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Clara Bow http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDxo_9
9eaEEA

• Clara Bow starred 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 talkies
• became popular
• Clara lost her jobwhy?

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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
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8Qsd6FX3C0c
• Rudolph Valentino-Lawrence of Arabia
• Douglas Fairbanks-Zorro
• Robin Hood

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Fashion for Sheiks
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Radio

• When the radio was invented it became immensely
  popular, and a huge fad. (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 Costellohttp//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
  Earheart
• 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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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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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 20s 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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3/19 US II

• Goal Assess the impact of artists, writers, and
  musicians of the 1920s, including the Harlem
  Renaissance, on American culture and values.
• QOD How did the invention of the automobile
  impact American society?
• Agenda PowerPoint with notes and video
• All essays not submitted are now a zero

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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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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. The Klan
  gained political power in the South 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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• 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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• Thats why it was called the Roaring Twenties

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The Century Boom to Bust

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vRN7ftyZigYs

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