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The Roaring 20’s

The Roaring 20’s . An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict. SLANG of 1920s. Beat one’s gums Beeswax Bimbo Clam Cash Goofy Gams. Slang. Giggle water Joe Jalopy Pinch Pipe Down Real McCoy Sap. 1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age"

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The Roaring 20’s

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  1. The Roaring 20’s An era of prosperity, Republican power, and conflict

  2. SLANG of 1920s Beat one’s gums Beeswax Bimbo Clam Cash Goofy Gams

  3. Slang Giggle water Joe Jalopy Pinch Pipe Down Real McCoy Sap

  4. 1920's collectively known as the "Roaring 20's", or the "Jazz Age" • a period of great change in American Society - modern America is born at this time

  5. Ageof Prosperity • Economic expansion • Mass Production • Assembly Line • Age of the Automobile • Ailing Agriculture…

  6. Republican Power • President Harding • Elected 1920 • Legacy of Scandals • “Teapot Dome” • Died in office

  7. President Coolidge“The business of America is business.” • Fordney-McCumber Tariff • Smoot-Hawley Tariff • No help for farmers • Foreign Policy

  8. Consumer Economy

  9. Culture of the Roaring 20’s Radio KDKA Pittsburgh GE, Westinghouse,& RCA form NBC Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin “Talkies” The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”

  10. Celebrities Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis Jack Dempsey

  11. The 20’s isThe Jazz Age The Flappers make up cigarettes short skirts Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Musicians Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington

  12. 1920's great changes for women... • 1920 - 19th Amendment • more women worked outside the home • women went to college • characterized by the FLAPPER/ "new woman" • (bobbed hair, short dresses, smoked in public...)

  13. Anti-immigrant National Origins Act Discrimination Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Italian immigrants Unfair trial A Society in Conflict

  14. for immigrants – the point of origin had shifted to S & E Europe and new religions appeared: Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic • N. European immigrants of early 19c. feared this shift and felt it would undermine Protestant values • this fear was known as NATIVISM • many wanted Congress to restrict immigration, leading to a quota system that favoured n. areas of Europe • fear of immigrants (from SE Europe) led to a sentiment known as the Red Scare (fear of comm. post-Bolshevik Rev.) • basic comm. advocates a int'l revolution by the proletariat/workers - fears that this ideology could find its way into the U.S.

  15. at this time, W. Wilson was gravely ill following a stroke • his Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, wanted to take a shot at the presidency - he used fears of both immigrants and communism to his advantage • he had J. Edgar Hoover round up suspected radicals, many of which were deported (Palmer Raids)

  16. The Ku Klux Klan Great increase In power Anti-black Anti-immigrant Anti-Semitic Anti-Catholic Anti-women’s suffrage Anti-bootleggers

  17. Scopes “Monkey” Trial Evolution vs. Creationism Science vs. Religion Dayton, Tennessee Famous Lawyers John Scopes High School Biology teacher

  18. Prohibition 18th Amendment Volstead Act Gangsters untouchables Al Capone

  19. PROHIBITION - on manuf. and sale of alcohol • adopted in 1919 - 18th AMENDMENT • an outgrowth of the longtime temperance movement • in WWI, temperance became a patriotic mvmt. - drunkenness caused low productivity & inefficiency, and alcohol needed to treat the wounded • a difficult law to enforce... organized crime, speakeasies, bootleggers were on the rise • Al Capone virtually controlled Chicago in this period - capitalism at its zenith… • Prohibition finally ended in 1933 w/ the 21st Amendment • forced organized crime to pursue other interests…

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