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Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?

Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?. Do Now: What is the 18 th Amendment?. PROHIBITION AND CRIME. The 18 th Amendment: banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. Prohibition Support. Volstead Act: law enacted by congress to enforce the 18 th Amendment.

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Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?

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  1. Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back? Do Now: What is the 18th Amendment?

  2. PROHIBITION AND CRIME • The 18th Amendment: banned the sale and consumption of alcohol

  3. Prohibition Support • Volstead Act:law enacted by congress to enforce the 18th Amendment. • Advocates of Prohibition: Prohibition improves individuals, strengthens families, and creates a better society.

  4. Those who opposed prohibition • Speakeasies: secret drink establishment . • Bootlegger: one who sells illegal alcohol.

  5. The Mob:New bread of murders, stealing, and bootlegging.- Al Capone: Most famous mobster of the time. “I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.”

  6. New MASS CULTURE: 1920s

  7. Pop Culture • Radio : brings distant events to your home (sports, stories) • Phonograph: listen to music

  8. Movies: • Hollywood • Silent films • Charlie Chaplin (actor)

  9. Leisure • More time to enjoy life • Picnic, games, sports

  10. Age of Heroes BABE RUTH CHARLES LINBERGH Pilot Cross Atlantic (33hours) “Lucky Lindy” • Homerun hero • “Great bambino” • Baseball: America’s Pastime

  11. Women in the 1920s

  12. Social changes • Flappers: risky dressed • Easier housework (vacuum, dish washer) • Joined social clubs (book)

  13. “Flappers”

  14. Political Changes • Flappers believed they had the same rights and men • Newly elected to politics • 19th amendment

  15. Economic changes • Enter the workforce • Nurses • Secretary • Teachers • New consumer goods

  16. HARLEM RENIASSANCE : Growth in African American culture: Music literature, poetry, and arts

  17. A “New Black Conscious” • African Americans left the South for a better future • Become: ministers, Drs, lawyers, teachers.

  18. The Jazz Age • African American form of music known as jazz. • Radio and phonograph helped spread. • New Orleans • Louis Armstrong: Trumpet player “Ambassador of Jazz”

  19. Cotton Club • One of Harlem’s most famous attractions, AA played music to white audiences Bridges the gap between blacks and whites

  20. Langston Hughes • Most powerful literary voice of his time • Poetry

  21. Lasting impact Altered ways whites viewed African Americans - The Roaring 20s ends with a financial collapses

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