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CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 23. JAZZ AGE. Section 1. Boom Times. OBJECTIVES. Evaluate how the economic boom affected consumers and American businesses Examine how the assembly line spurred the growth of the automobile industry Explain how widespread automobile use affected the daily lives of many Americans

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CHAPTER 23

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  1. CHAPTER 23 JAZZ AGE

  2. Section 1 Boom Times

  3. OBJECTIVES • Evaluate how the economic boom affected consumers and American businesses • Examine how the assembly line spurred the growth of the automobile industry • Explain how widespread automobile use affected the daily lives of many Americans • Discuss how American industries encouraged changes in consumer practices

  4. ECONOMIC BOOM FOR CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES • Economic prosperity – led to wage increases for workers • Workers – increased their purchasing power – created a market for new products • More electrical appliances

  5. ASSEMBLY LINE AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY • Assembly line cut production time and costs • Manufacturers were able to reduce car prices – this allowed greater numbers of consumers to buy cars

  6. FORD CHANGED WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE 1920’S • Developed the assembly line • Shortened the work day • Increased wages

  7. AUTOMOBILE’S AFFECTS ON DAILY LIFE THE AMERICANS • Linked rural areas to urban areas • Contributed to the growth of suburbs • Replaced horse-drawn vehicles • Reduced the use of the trains/trolley cars • New social opportunities for teenagers

  8. Horse-drawn vehicle was replaced

  9. Henry Ford’s Model T

  10. CHANGES IN CONSUMER PRACTICES • Installment buying – making monthly payments • Advertising – magazines, newspapers, billboards, and radio • Retail chain stores – A & P Grocery chain store

  11. SECTION 2 Life in the 1920’s

  12. OBJECTIVES • Analyze the impact prohibition had on crime • Describe the characteristics of the new youth culture • Explain how new forms of popular entertainment created a mass culture • Examine what the Scopes trial and the religious movement of the 1920’d revealed about American society

  13. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919 • Volstead Act (enforced the 18th Amendment) • Speakeasies (bars) • Bootleggers (alcohol smuggled in from Canada, Mexico, West Indies) • Al Capone (Chicago mobster) • Eliot Ness (Prohibition Bureau special agent) • Untouchables (Ness and his detectives) • 21st Amendment (Repealed Prohibition in 1933)

  14. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919

  15. Prohibition from 1919 to 1933 (18th Amendment)

  16. Prohibition from 1919 to 1933

  17. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Volstead Act (enforced the 18th Amendment)

  18. Volstead Act Enforced Prohibition

  19. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Speakeasies (bars)

  20. Speakeasy was an illegal bar during Prohibition

  21. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Bootleggers (alcohol smuggled in from Canada, Mexico, West Indies)

  22. Bootleggers and their equipment to make moonshine

  23. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Al Capone (Chicago mobster)

  24. Gangster “Scarface” Al Capone

  25. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  26. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Eliot Ness (Prohibition Bureau special agent)

  27. Eliot Ness Prohibition Bureau Special Agent

  28. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • Untouchables (Ness and his detectives)

  29. The Untouchables (Ness and his detectives)

  30. IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON CRIME • 21st Amendment (Repealed Prohibition in 1933)

  31. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • Women seeking social and economic independence • Participated in sports • Held jobs • College life’s fashions • Leisure activities in college

  32. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • Dress of the females changed (wore shorter skirts and silk nylons) • Wore bobbed hair

  33. Bobbed hair in the 1920’s

  34. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • Flappers were women that did not conform to society (had bobbed hair, drove cars, smoked in public, and participated in sports)

  35. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • New jobs for the women (ran telegraph lines, stenographers, flew airplanes, hauled freight in trucks, nurses, teachers, etc)

  36. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • Collegiate look for the youth was baggy flannel shirts and sport jackets

  37. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YOUTH • Leisure activities (dance marathons, beauty contests, and flagpole sitters)

  38. Women in Sports

  39. College Life in the 1920’s

  40. NEW FORMS OF POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT • Radio – KDKA in Pittsburgh/WWJ in Detroit • NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

  41. Radio – KDKA at Pittsburgh in 1920

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