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THE ROARING TWENTIES

U. S. HISTORY. THE ROARING TWENTIES. AMERICAN LIFE CHANGES. NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN Cultural Changes! New Opportunities: voting, running for office, changes in the workplace New Family Roles : more women sought equality with men

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THE ROARING TWENTIES

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  1. U. S. HISTORY THE ROARING TWENTIES

  2. AMERICAN LIFE CHANGES NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN Cultural Changes! New Opportunities: voting, running for office, changes in the workplace New Family Roles: more women sought equality with men The Flapper: young women who defied traditional ideas of dress & behavior

  3. EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION 1920’s time of great economic prosperity Distances between rural and urban areas “shrank” with cars, education, population, communication

  4. CONFLICTS OVER VALLUES VALUES: key ideas and beliefs one holds Different “values” between urban and rural America Rise of Fundamentalism (literal interpretation of the Bible): Billy Sunday, Aimee McPherson SCOPES TRIAL: regarding teaching evolution

  5. PROHIBITION Always important in American history – drive to outlaw alcohol grew in early 1900’s 18th Amendment (1919): making, transporting, selling alcohol illegal VOLSTEAD ACT: law to enforce amendment Smuggling, bootleggers, crime

  6. HARLEM RENAISSANCE Many blacks migrated to Harlem, New York (also to Chicago, Detroit, other urban areas) Racial tensions high, even in North Deadly riots

  7. IMPORTANT BLACK AMERICANS In the 1920’s… W. E. B. DuBois: helped found NAACP Marcus Garvey: founded Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Other Harlem writers, poets, artists, performers, musicians: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith

  8. NEW POPULAR CULTURE BORN MASS ENTERTAINMENT in the 1920’s: Radio Movies ERA OF HEROES: Film Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Valentino Pilots: Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart Sports: Red Grange, Babe Ruth Arts: F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin

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