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Welcome to the Roaring Twenties. An Age of Prosperity. The 1920s were a prosperous time known as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, or the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. . Prohibition.
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An Age of Prosperity • The 1920s were a prosperous time known as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, or the Age of Wonderful Nonsense.
Prohibition • In 1919, the 18th Amendment passed the Act of Prohibition, which made the making of, the transportation of, and the selling of alcohol illegal. The intent of the Amendment was to lower the crime rate and to improve the general way of life, but the opposite happened.
Prohibition Continued… • Crime increased as people rebelled against not being able to buy alcohol, and people began to make their own. This was oftentimes called bathtub gin.
Prohibition Continued… • Numerous illegal bars called speakeasies were created to provide drinks for the people who wanted alcohol.
Prohibition Continued… • Gangsters profited during this decade by smuggling alcohol and distributing it to different illegal businesses. • Chicago’s Al Capone was one of these gangsters. He made $105 million a year smuggling alcohol.
Fashion • Flappers were considered reckless rebels. They had short sleek hair. They wore a shorter than average shapeless shift dress. They wore make-up and put it on in public. They exposed their legs in public. They put their cigarettes in long holders to smoke them. They enjoyed doing the new dances, such as the Charleston, in the jazz clubs. Flappers
Important Figures • Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to fly solo. She disappeared in 1937 in an attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world. No trace of Earhart or her plane have ever been found.
Important Figures Continued… • Babe Ruth was the greatest slugger in baseball history. His record of 714 regular-season home runs wasn't broken until 1974 by Hank Aaron. He was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. His famous “Called Shot” homerun captured the imagination of an entire country and remains a mystery to this day. Babe Ruth's "Called Shot"
Important Figures Continued… • Red Grange was one of the greatest football players of all time. He became known as the Galloping Ghost when he scored five touchdowns on his first five carries in one game.
Important Figures Continued… • In the early 1920s, Louis Armstrong joined King Oliver in Chicago -- playing solos with Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York and making jazz history with the Hot Five. It was in Chicago that he initiated his "scat" singing -- singing nonsense syllables in place of words and vocally simulating instrumental sound. Louis Armstrong
Important Figures Continued… • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was one of the great writers of the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald began his career as a writer of stories for mass-circulation magazines. He was one of the main writers for “The Saturday Evening Post.” The publication of his novel This Side of Paradise made him famous overnight.
Much has been made (and will continue to be made) about the many, many examples of symbolism in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The symbolism starts with the novel’s cover. Take a look at the cover of the book you have in front of you (and a slightly different version on this screen), and think about the symbolic images you see. What images stand out the most to you? What do you think they represent? Where do you think the events of the novel take place? What will this novel be about?
