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ROARING TWENTIES

ROARING TWENTIES. CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION. JAZZ. Harlem Renaissance. FLAPPERS. “bobs”. Underground drinking. Organized Crime. For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!. By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business.

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ROARING TWENTIES

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  1. ROARING TWENTIES

  2. CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION JAZZ Harlem Renaissance

  3. FLAPPERS “bobs”

  4. Underground drinking

  5. Organized Crime For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!! • By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business • Organized crime came to control distribution of liquor & violent gang feuds started Al Capone

  6. RURAL LIFE Fundamentalists • People that tried to preserve old values • Anti-new (Baptist, Methodist)

  7. Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) 1925 • Tennessee teacher was arrested and found guilty for teaching evolution in school

  8. City life recreation

  9. 1920’s FAST FACTS

  10. 106,521,537 people in the United States  • 2,132,000 unemployed, • Unemployment 5.2%  • Life expectancy:  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6  • 343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919)  • Average annual earnings $1236;  Teacher's salary  $970  • Dow Jones High 100  Low 67   • Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the population.   • Gangland crime included murder, swindles, racketeering  • It took 13 days to reach California from New York  There were 387,000 miles of paved road. 

  11. 1920’s Slang

  12. Warren G. Harding • Believed in less government control of business • Raised tariffs to highest level ever • Presidency tarnished by scandal • Secretary of Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserve to private companies • Harding dies of a stroke

  13. Calvin Coolidge • Continues Harding’s laissez-faire policies • Economy booms

  14. Booming Economy • GNP • Model T; black • Airplanes, plastics, appliances

  15. Post-war Farming • Loss of European markets • Blacks move north, looking for jobs

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