1. THE 1920s Changing culture

2. ESSENTAIL QUESTIONS • What Social, political and economic changes occurred in America in the 1920s? • To what extent did the political and economic policies of the 1920s differ from those of the progressive era? • How did the rapid changes of the 1920s highlight the clash between modern and traditional values? • How did these changes both unite and divide Americans?

3. MODERN ISSUES THAT DIVIDE • Kim Kardashian • The Super Bowl • Health Care • Monsanto and the soybean • Gay Marriage • Legal ization

4. Homogenization through Technology • Film: • Radio: • Cars: • Americans had more leisure time, and higher wages led to money spent on entertainment

5. Film and Radio in the 1920s • Created common fashion icons • Allowed for the growth in popularity of major league sports • Allowed for a national “conversation” about social, economic, and political events

6. FILM

7. Changing Roles of Women • Some women embraced the more modern ideas of the 1920s using their newly achieved right to vote to explore the possibilities of freedom and political power.

8. The Vamp

9. The “It Girl” • Lara Bow known as “The It Girl” • Women smoked, drank, and danced • Clashed with conservative views of morality

10. FLAPPERS

11. Mass Production • Henry Ford brings automobile to the masses with assembly line production • With new assembly prices could drop low enough for workers to afford

12. CONSUMERISM • People now had money to worry about things they had never had time to worry about before • New ideals of fashion and beauty allowed for advertising like this

13. CONSUMERISM • Movie star and sports hero culture contributed to the advent of celebrity promotion

14. CONSUMERISM • Electricity and industrial production led to the invention of time saving devices that became symbols of the middle class

15. Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities after WWI • The “Jazz Age “ begins. • Art, poetry and music transforms mainstream American culture as well as African American culture

16. 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?

17. Music • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SQdSLW27Q • Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith • Blues and Jazz began to make there way into mainstream “White” music and dance clubs

18. CULTURAL CLASHES OF THE 1920s

19. Prohibition • Some women saw new freedoms as renewed responsibility to safeguard the morality of America and Americans • 18th amendment made alcohol illegal

20. PROHIBITION AND VIOLENT CRIME • “I make my money from supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers, who number hundreds of the best people in Chicago, are as guilty as I am. The only difference between us is that I sell and they buy. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman”—Al Capone

21. Fundamentalism • Scopes “monkey trial” 1925 • Teacher put on trial for teaching about evolution • http://movieclips.com/u54X-inherit-the-wind-movie-a-plea-against-fanaticism-and-ignorance/

22. NATIVISM • Immigration act of 1921 • 3% of those of a given nationality living in the US in 1910 could immigrate • Later Changes to 2% of those living here in 1890

23. NATIVISM AND THE KKK

24. Red Scare and Anti immigration • The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed