Roaring Twenties

Bell RingerWhat are some things you do that your parents dont approve of/drives them nuts?The Jazz AgeGlamour, culture, and excitement!

The New MoralityThe struggle between tradition and modernityThe New MoralityA shift in the beliefs of many Americans during the 1920s on their ideas of family, relationships, gender roles, religion, and especially, war.

World War IIncreasing role of women in politicsMass MediaCauses for the New Morality

5The Lost GenerationFinding a new meaning of life in postwar AmericaThe Lost GenerationCoined by poet Gertrude SteinMostly writers, musicians, and painters Questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the futureSettled in Paris

ExistentialismThere is no universal understanding or meaning to life. Each person creates his or her own meaning in life through actions and choices taken.Gertrude SteinTender Buttons: objects, food, rooms

A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

GLAZED GLITTER.

Nickel, what is nickel, it is originally rid of a cover.

Lost Generation WritersErnest Hemmingway known for stoic male characters and disillusionment with youth and heroism; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to ArmsWilliam Faulkner popularized the stream of consciousness style and focused on the Southern experience; The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying

F. Scott FitzgeraldThe epitome of the youthful, glamorous lifestyle of the eraCoined the term the Jazz Age The Great Gatsby

La Vie Boehme!"Bohemian" is applied to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives.Greenwich Village (NYC)Sought to break social barriers, refuting traditional gender norms and sexual stereotypes.

Redefining FemininityThe New Morality for WomenChanges in SocietyWomen in the workforceDuring the war, women took over jobs men left behindAfter the war, some women remained in the workforce, in subservient positionsWomens collegesBefore WWI, there was a genuine fear that college made women unfit for marriage and motherhood.Revealed the new image of the modern women: intelligent, independent, and not interested in the domestic life.

Margaret SangerFounded the American Birth Control League (would later become Planned Parenthood)Believed that families standard of living would improve if they limited the number of children they had.Would later become one of the driving forces for the FDA approval of The PillWas also a proponent of eugenics, believing that birth control was the best method of stopping the increase of the unfit in society.

New Roles in the Home and FamilyWomen and consumer cultureBecame the purchasing agent of the familyHousehold tasks become much easier with electric appliancesNo less time spent on houseworkDecrease in domesticsRomance and relationshipsHighly inspired by the romances on the silver screen

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Enjoy Now, Pay Later!Inventions and their effect on cultureA New Consumer CultureExciting new products become available More disposable income.Advertised on the radioPeople began buying on credit enjoy now, pay later!Credit was being applied to all purchases, inflating ideas of the public wealth and security of purchases

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Pantages TheatrePutting America on the MoveHenry Ford produced the first affordable automobile by using the assembly line.1913: Workers could build a car every 93 minutes. Sold for $490.1925: Workers finished a new Ford every 10 seconds. Sold for $295.

Model T was nicknamed the Tin Lizzie or Flivver

You can get the Model T in any color you wish, as long as that color is black.Effects of the AutomobileThe automobile gave American youth the opportunity to pursue interests away from parents.Allowed people to move farther away from the cities

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The RadioMore than any other invention of the age, the radio changed the very nature of how Americans communicatedIt created a homogeneous American culture:SportsEntertainmentNewsAdvertisingStandardized speech patterns

Babe RuthJack DempseyNFL

Orteig Prize

Charles LindberghIn 1919, a New York City hotel owner offered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize. An American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927.

Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours. Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle." Americans and Europeans idolized the shy, slim young man and showered him with honor.

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Amelia EarhartBell RingerHow did flappers reflect the new morality of the Jazz Age? What conflicts may come as a result of this new image?The Jazz Age Starts SwinginAmericas Social Revolution

The MoviesHunks and Hams

RudolphValentinoDouglasFairbanksFattyArbuckleCharlieChaplinGlittering Starlets

Mary PickfordMarion Davies

The UltimateFlapper!The first"It"girlClara BowThe Jazz Singer The first Talkie

The Great Experiment

Moonshining and BootleggingWith alcohol still being a desirable product, many turned to illegal methods of obtaining itMoonshiningBootleggingSpeakeasies

GangstersEmergence of a cutthroat black market Bootleggers began using intimidation and violence to guard their territoryOrganized crime families took over in major citiesChicago, NYC

Many gangsters with colorful names began making headlines: Baby Face Nelson, Lucky Luciano, Pretty Boy Floyd, Jack Legs Diamond, Bugs Moran, and John Dillinger

The most influential and dangerous gangsterLeader of Chicagos Southside gangSuspected of orchestrating numerous murders, but unable to be pinned for the crime. St. Valentines Day MassacreEventually convicted of tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz

Al Capone

St. Valentines Day Massacre

The Harlem RenaissanceBringing African American culture into the forefrontMarcus GarveyA dynamic leader from Jamaica, he promoted Negro Nationalism, which glorified black culture and the traditions of the pastBack to Africa MovementBlack Star LineImprisoned and deported for fraud

LiteratureLiterature of the Harlem Renaissance reflected the struggles and contributions of African Americans.Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching GodRelates the story of fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.

LiteratureWhat happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?-Langston Hughes

Jazz and BluesBluesBessie Smith Empty Bed Blues

I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bed

Bought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findOh, he could grind my coffee, 'cause he had a brand new grind

Louis Armstrong Satchmo

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin