The TwentiesPart One

A Turbulent Decade

Post World War I Issues

● Fear of Communism● Limiting Immigration● Labor Unrest

You Tube: First Red Scare

Fear of Communism

● The Red Scare● The Palmer Raids● Sacco and Vanzetti● YouTube - Sacco

and Vanzetti - song by Woody Guthire & David Rovics

Sacco and Vanzetti

Palmer RaidsA. Mitchell Palmer

Immigration to the United States 1880-1920

Limiting Immigration

● Nativism● The Klan Rises Again● The Quota System-

sharply reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe as well as Asia.

Labor Unrest● In 1919, unions called

for more than 3000 strikes involving more than 4 million workers

● Employers refused demands for higher wages/shorter hours/right to join unions

● Employers labeled strikers as communists

John L. Lewis

Republicans in Power

Warren Harding 1921-1923

Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

*Election of pro-business presidents Harding and Coolidge*Isolationist philosophy*Immigration quotas*Tariffs on imports to discourage foreign business competition*Corruption in Harding's administration

Business and TechnologyYou Tube: Henry Ford and Model T

● Growth of automobile industry

● Advertising gains popularity

● Widespread use of electricity

● Increased production of consumer goods

● Buying on credit● Superficial prosperity

The TwentiesPart TwoJazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald●Coined the term “Jazz Age”●Author of The Great Gatsby

Changing Ways of Life

● Prohibition● Science and Religion

Clash● The Twenties Woman● Sports● Music and Dance● Harlem Renaissance

Charles Lindbergh

Prohibition

● The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverage (18th Amendment)

● Speakeasies and bootleggers

● Organized Crime● YouTube

- Paper Lace-The Night Chicago Died

Al Capone

Science and Religion Clash

● Battle between fundamentalist religious groups and secular thinkers over the validity of certain scientific discoveries

● Fundamentalists contest Darwin's theory of evolution

● Scopes Monkey Trial

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan

The Twenties Woman● The Flapper● New Work

Opportunities● Right to Vote

(19th Amendment)

● YouTube-19th Amendment

Sports Heroes of the 1920's

Babe Ruth

Jim Thorpe

Helen Wills

Gertrude Ederle

Jazz Age

As jazz music was sweeping the nation via the phonograph, radio, and the movies, young men and their flapper partners shocked their elders by dancing cheek-to-cheek fox-trots and the Charleston.

The Charleston Dance

Louie Armstrong

George Gershwin

Harlem Renaissance A literary and artistic

movement celebrating African-American culture.

YouTube - Harlem renaissance

Langston Hughes

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes

I, too sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.

Tomorrow,I'll be at the table When company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,“Eat in the kitchen,”Then.

Besides,They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed-I, too, am America.

Youth in the Roaring Twenties

Flagpole Sitting

Dance Marathons

Oxford Bags

Bobbed Hair

Applesauce- an expletive same as horsefeathers, As in "Ah applesauce!"

Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea; the ultimate

Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; The best or greatest, wonderful. Copacetic - Wonderful, fine, all right

Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls

Egg - a person who lives the big life Flat Tire - A dull witted, insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan

Heebie-Jeebies - The jittersHotsy - Totsy - Pleasing Real McCoy - The genuine articleRitzy - Elegant (from the hotel)

Cheaters - Eyeglasses

Dumb Dora - a stupid female

Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol

Wet Blanket - a solemn person, a killjoy

1920’s Slang Language Sampler