Post on 15-Jul-2020
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Notes by your peers separated by movie clips, music, and cartoons!!
The Flapper
• Flapper - Brash women who
wore short skirts, cut their
hair, wore make up, listened
to jazz, breaking social
norms
Significance:
Many
women felt
freer to
experiment
with bolder
styles and
manners
Automotive
• Mass Production –faster, more
efficient means of producing
identical products
• Henry Ford – mass produced the
Model T (automobile) – makes it
affordable to everyday Americans
• Assembly Line – a means of
production in which the product is
on an conveyor belt and assembled
piece by piece
Significance:
Increase
production &
advance
economy
people buying
on credit &
installment
plans
Henry Ford regarding the Model T,
“You can buy any one you want…so long as its black”
Mass Media • The Jazz
Singer – first
movie with
sound
• Talkies –
movies with
sound
• NBC –
(National
Broadcasting
Company)
national radio
station
Significance:
Increase
communication,
create national
unity/culture
Hate Groups
• Knights of Mary Phagan –
lynched Leo Frank (Jew) in
Marietta, part of the recreation of
the KKK
• KKK – white supremacist group –
terrorize anyone who is NOT
white and protestant
• Red Summer – race riots break
out in 25 cities after WWI
Significance:
Discrimination
prevails –
we’re not
progressing
racially as a
nation.
Prohibition
• 18th Amendment –
prohibition of alcohol
• Speakeasies – illegal bar
where you can buy alcohol
• Al Capone – notorious
gangster who is going to
profit from prohibition
Significance:
Causes crime /
illegal activity
- Gangs control
the cities
Immigration
• Communism – gov’t system where the gov’t owns everything, and everyone shares (anti-capitalism)
• Sacco and Vanzzetti – known Italian-born radicals, Mass. court convicted them of robbery & murder, case somewhat shaky in court, sentenced to death
• Red Scare – people are afraid of the spread of communism
Significance:
Fear of
communism
immigrant
discrimination
& restrictions
Jazz Age
• improvisation - spontaneous ("on the fly“) composing music
• Louis Armstrong – famous jazz trumpeter, becomes a leader in the jazz movement
• Cotton Club – club for white people to see jazz singers, brings AA culture into mainstream America
Significance:
New cultural
expression,
reduce racial
tension
Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem Renaissance – home
to AA literary awakening
• Langston Hughes – poet of
Harlem, wrote about the good
and bad of AA lives
• The New Negro – book written
by Alain Locke, celebrate AA
culture
Significance:
Develop of AA
culture,
encourage
black pride
Popular Music • Irving Berlin – song writer who made
a new kind of music that changes America ( I’m dreaming of a white Christmas & Anything you can do I can do better)
• Tin Pan Alley – producers of jazz music, birthplace of American popular music
• Charleston- new dance, with beats of popular ragtime music
Significance:
Development
of American
culture / unity
Presidential Policy Contributing to U.S.
ProsperityWarren Harding (1921-23)
His promise was a "return to normality". He reduced taxes to give businesses more money to grow and to put more money in the pockets of ordinary Americans. Harding was pro business, anti tax, anti regulation. In 1922, he introduced the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act which imposed a tax on goods from foreign countries. This made foreign goods more expensive than domestic goods, and so this encouraged Americans to buy American goods only. The name for this policy was protectionism.
Calvin Coolidge (1923-29)
"Business is America's business," said Calvin Coolidge. He stuck to the same policy as Harding. Although he didn’t do much (his nickname was 'Silent Cal'), Americans believed he was a good President because of the strength of the economy. He had a huge respect for businessmen and adhered to the laissez-faire policy. He gave businessmen the freedom to make a profit and become rich. Even the Wall Street Journal praised this policy: "No government ever before, either here nor in any other country, has succeeded in uniting so thoroughly with the business world."
Herbert Hoover (1929-32)
He became President in 1929 following his promise to "put a chicken in every cooking pot, and a car in every garage". Hoover believed less in laissez-faire and more on rugged individualism. This meant that people should not depend on the government for help - they should solve their own problems by working harder. Hoover lost the next Presidential election in 1932 because of this viewpoint - it was perceived as too severe given the state of the US and World economy. Blamed for The Great Depression.
Now Let’s Answer the
EQ!!!
Does the term ‘Roaring 20s’ appropriately
describe the time period?
i.e., what are the positives and negatives
associated with the 20s?
Yes (positives) No (negatives)
Soc/art 1. Flapper = freer behaviors and styles… independent woman
2. Mass Media: NBC creates national culture (American unity)
3. Popular music: blending of black and white culture; dance focuses on individual
4. Jazz Age: blending of black and white culture
5. Literature: Harlem celebrates black culture
1. Flapper: inept/ drunk/ strumpets/ not working
2. Mass Media – reinforces stereotypes (lil sambo – jazz singer)
3. Hate Groups: rise of KKK and race riots
4. Immigrant relations: red scare leads to discrimination of immigrants
Pol 5. Prohibition leads to organized crime and gang control of city… backlash to progressives
Eco 6. Mass Production: inc in credit and consumerism… affordable cars inc suburban sprawl