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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties. The Improvement Of The Transportation Network of America. Henry Ford and the assembly line Made cars more affordable Because of the wide spread use of cars, the landscape of America changed to favor them Over 10,000 miles of highway were built every year

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The Roaring Twenties

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  1. The Roaring Twenties

  2. The Improvement Of The Transportation Network of America • Henry Ford and the assembly line • Made cars more affordable • Because of the wide spread use of cars, the landscape of America changed to favor them • Over 10,000 miles of highway were built every year • Bill board for advertising were built all around the country • Red and Green traffic lights were built to control the traffic

  3. New Ways of Life The Car: • Economic effects: • Tourism and travel • Suburbs created • Created many jobs • Social effects • Suburbs-community located outside the city • The car allowed for the development of the suburbs

  4. The Power of Aviation • Because of WWI, major improvements were made in aircraft • By 1929, there were already three major air transport companies, American, United, and Trans-world Airlines • In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic ocean in 33 hours(first solo non stop flight ) • He became a hero for Americans an was honored by a ticker-tape parade

  5. New Ways of Life • ERA-equal rights amendment: rights shall not be denied based on gender New rights for women • 19th amendment gave women the right to vote • League of Women voters • Women’s work: women had new opportunities at home and at work • Washing machine • Electronic irons • Vacuum cleaners

  6. Women Era of Changing Fashions: • Fad: activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short amount of time • Flappers: young women that rebelled against traditional ways of thinking • Wore dresses short • Hair bobbed • Red lipstick

  7. New Ways of Life Mass culture • A National culture created by: cars, music, radio, fads, and more • Radio • Families would gather around after dinner • News and entertainment • Movies • Charlie Chaplin • Silent movies

  8. How did they afford these new technologies? New ways: • Installment buying-buying goods on credit, paying over time • Buying on Margin: purchasing a stock for just 10% down payment of the price of the stock • Ex: Stock costs $10, the investor would put down $1, down the road the person would have to pay the remaining balance

  9. The Jazz Age • Jazz: combined West African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals and European harmonies • Louis Armstrong • Writers: • Fitzgerald • Hemmingway

  10. The Jazz Age Harlem Renaissance • Rebirth of African American culture • Large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem Writers • Langston Hughes: poet, expressing in poetry the life of African Americans of the 1920’s • ( other power point)

  11. New Ways of Life Ban on Alcohol: • 18th amendment • Bootleggers • Speakeasies • Rise of organize crime, mob and gangsters • Al Capone • (other power point)

  12. Politics and Prosperity Foreign affairs: • Communism: economic system in which all the wealth and property is owned by the community—this is being implemented by Lenin in Russia, but the government is controlling everything, not the community

  13. Trouble below the Surface Red Scare • Fear of communism spreading through America • Anarchists-people who opposed organized government • http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.php/course_locator.php?course=US History II&lesson=58&topic=1&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=Red%20Scare&skinPath=http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default

  14. Trouble below the Surface Sacco and Vanzetti • Two Italian immigrants in Massachusetts were arrested for murder • Admitted anarchists • Limited evidence against them • Convicted and put to death

  15. Trouble below the Surface Limiting Immigration • Nativism---anti-foreigners • Emergency Quota act -set up a quota system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter

  16. Trouble below the Surface Racism • 1915 rebirth of the KKK • Marcus Garvey-Universal Negro Improvement Association • http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.php/course_locator.php?course=US History II&lesson=58&topic=2&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=Nativism%20and%20Racism&skinPath=http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default

  17. Trouble below the Surface Scopes Trial • Clash between old and new values • Fundamentalist • Evolution v. Religion • John Scopes a Biology teach in Tennessee taught evolution and was arrested

  18. Trial led by Clarence Darrow and prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan. He was found guilty(was fined) but later the state Supreme Court over threw the decision on a technicality • This argument still continues today.

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