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Roaring TwentiesBy: Jacina Steele
Popular Music Jazz on radio & phonographs Musicals Lights on Broadway: –No-no Nanette –Show Boat –Rosalie –Runnin’ Wild
MoviesThe Jazz SingerBroadway Melody
Singers Sophie Tucker Fanny Brice Helen Morgan *Paul Whiteman “King of Jazz” #1 Hit.
18th Amendment went into effect ; selling possession, consumption of alcoholic beverages
End of World War I U.S political focused on social and cultural
issues1913-1921-Woodrow Wilson 1921-1923-Warren G Harding 1929-1933- Herbert Hoover
Overseas: There was war & Resolutions Home: Strikes, growing fear of radicals & terrostist
Speeches 1920 > Crystal Eastman “Now We Can
Begin” 1921/1922> Margaret Higgins Sanger
“The Morality of Birth Control” 1924> Clarence Seward “Mercy for
Leopold and Loed” 1925>Margaret Higgins Sanger “The
Children Era”
Women August 23 > Tennessee Legislator The
Federal Suffrage Amendment –Women fight over their rights *Freedom is a large word in the 1920’s
Feminist are socialist , many were communist
Women weren't treated right Wanted Freedom Wanted to be
independent just like the men
Businesses Large New Profit ; Factories and Wages
Rises Henry Ford – discount grocery store
Incomes Increased The Number of Millionaires grew upon
tax reports, 21 Individuals with income over 1 Million Dollars in 1921 , 75 in 1924 207 in 1926 15000 in 1927
Scientist Diabetes: Frederick Grant Banting ( 1891-1941)
and Charles Herbert Best ( 1899-1978) >Insulin: which regulates blood sugar levels, ricks of Coma and Death
Albert Einstein(1879-1955): won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) , Soon published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
-Migrated to the U.S in 1933 , Taught at Princeton University
-Vitamin E was discovered : Dr. Herbert McLean EvansIn antioxidants , foods
Facts Tutankhamens Bomb: Nov 4,1922 Baby Austin (1922-1941) British Broadcasting Company (1922) Innovation of Immunization (1923) Beginning of Frozen Food (1925) Television (1926) Penicillin Discovered (1928)
Books The Diary of a Young Girl by : Anne
Frank The Screwtape Letters by : C.S. Lewis Ulysses by : James Joyce The Age of Innocence by : Edith
Wharton The Mysterious Affair At Styles
( Hercules Poriot #1 ) by : Agatha Christie
The Side of Paradise by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Historical Events American Art Deco – Exhibiitions,
furniture , silver, ceramics, textiles. Architecture , jewerly, painting and Black and White illustrations
Art Movemenets 1925 Year in Review – Texas net
Museum of Art
106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed , unemployed 5.2% Life epectancy : Male 53.6 , Female : 54.6 Average annual earnings $1236 Teachers salary $970 Gangland crimes murder , swindles and
racketeering Took 13 days to reach California from New
York
Then (1920’s) Now (2013)
Gas Prices $0.13 $3.66
Bread $0.12 $1.88
Milk $0.33 $2.79
Eggs $0.47 $1.54
Movie Tickets $0.25 $7.00
Music $1.00-1.50 $30.00
High School Requirements
Only 17 guns fro 1920 to 1929 in the Military Factory
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1920.html