Roaring Twenties

1. Roaring Twenties

2. American Life Changes Boom or Bust “The Roaring Twenties” The economic boom period of the 1920s had a significant effect on the daily lives of many but not all Americans.

3. A New Popular Culture is Born New technologies helped produce a new mass culture in the 1920’s.

4. In 1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio message across the Atlantic Ocean. • Henry Ford changed the way people lived and the way businesses manufactured goods. Ford used the idea of the ASSEMBLY LINE for automobile manufacturing. • Movies were another form of mass communication, and had a deep impact on the shape of American culture. • 1927 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean • Glenn Hammond Curtiss founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. New Technology • Radio • Automobiles • Movies • Airplanes New Technology

5. New Technology * it brought advertising into American homes. During the 1920s, the radio went from being a little-known novelty to being standard equipment in every American home. * provided a source of entertainment

6. New Technology • automobiles stimulated a great expansion in the use of "credit.“ • Road construction created thousands of new jobs, as state and local governments began funding highway design. • Inspired the created of Motels, and Roadside Diners

7. New Technologies The great popularity of movies in the 1920s gave rise to a new kind of celebrity—the movie star.

8. Charles Lindbergh was a daredevil pilot who practiced his skills as an airline pilot, a dangerous, life-threatening job at the time. • Lindbergh heard about a $25,000 prize for the first aviator to fly a nonstop transatlantic flight, or a flight across the Atlantic Ocean, and wanted to win. • He rejected the idea that he needed a large plane with many engines, and developed a very light single-engine craft with room for only one pilot. • On May 21, 1927, Lindbergh succeeded by touching down in Paris, France after a thirty-three-and-a-half-hour flight from New York. • Lindbergh earned the name “Lucky Lindy” and became the most beloved American hero of the time. • A little over a year after Lindbergh’s flight, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, returning to the U.S. as a hero. • She went on to set numerous speed and distance records as a pilot. • In 1937 she was most of the way through a record-breaking flight around the world when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Pilot Heroes of the Twenties Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart

9. Though the 1920s was a time of great economic opportunities for many, farmers, sharecroppers, and underpaid factory workers did not share in the prosperity. The 1920 census showed that for the first time ever, more Americans lived in cities than in rural. New appliances and an increased reliance on electricity to run them also changed the daily lives of many Americans, particularly women What are the new inventions and how did they change everyday life? Effects of Urbanization

10. 1919: The Eighteenth Amendment begins Prohibition. The amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Bootleg liquor and speakeasies gave rise to crime. The amendment was repealed in the early 1930’s Prohibition

11. Prohibition

12. The Harlem Renaissance • The Main Idea • Transformations in the African American community contributed to a blossoming of black culture centered in Harlem, New York. • What was Harlem, and how was it affected by the Great Migration? • Who were the key figures of the Harlem Renaissance?

13. Beginning around 1910, Harlem, New York, became a favorite destination for black Americans migrating from the South. Southern life was difficult for African Americans, many of whom worked as sharecroppers or in other low-paying jobs and often faced racial violence. Many African Americans looked to the North to find freedom and economic opportunities, and during World War I the demand for equipment and supplies offered African Americans factory jobs in the North. African American newspapers spread the word of opportunities in northern cities, and African Americans streamed into cities such as Chicago and Detroit. This major relocation of African Americans is known as the Great Migration. The Great Migration

14. Push Jim Crow laws and lynchings as well as the economic hardship of sharecropping. Effects of the boll weevil Pull Job opportunities in the factories brought African Americans to the cities of the North and Midwest. African Americans after World War I

15. New York City was one of the northern cities many African Americans moved to during the Great Migration, and by the early 1920s, about 200,000 African Americans lived in the city. Most of these people lived in a neighborhood known as Harlem, which became the unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States. Writers, artists and musicians gathered together. Jazz music, which grew out of African American tradition, became the rage. Life in Harlem This movement was known as the Harlem Renaissance.

16. The Harlem Renaissance helped create new opportunities for African American stage performers, who only began being offered serious roles on the American stage in the 1920s. Musicians • Harlem was a vital center for jazz, a musical blend of several different forms from the Lower South with new innovations in sound. • Much of jazz was improvised, or composed on the spot. • Louis Armstrongwas a leading performer on the Harlem jazz scene. • Other performers included Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, and composers Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. Harlem Performers and Musicians

17. The Birth of Jazz

18. It was a group of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters during the Harlem Renaissance. Tin Pan Alley was originally a specific place in New York City, West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue.

19. The Charleston • The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina • The Charleston dance became popular after appearing along with the song, "The Charleston," by James P. Johnson in the Broadway musical Runnin' Wild in 1923.

20. Flappers •  flapper was the name given to liberated young women. • wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

21. Radio helped inflame the public passion for sports, and millions of Americans tuned in to broadcasts of ballgames and prize fights featuring their favorite athletes. Sports Heroes

22. the novel served as a snapshot of the frenzied post-war society known as the Jazz Age The Great Gatsby, published in 1925 "It's the Great American Dream," Wrote the Great Gatsby

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