Kent Chronicles

April 2013

When you think of the 1920s, what do you think of?

April 15, 1921

The Music• It is the JAZZ AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!– Ragtime– Louisiana Creole music

• Started in New Orleans– Spread to Chicago– Then New York

•Stars of Early Jazz Joe Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Bessie Smith How bout this one?

The Dance

• The Charleston– For Real

• The Fox Trot

New Women

• As opposed to the “Old Women?”

• Um. Kind of…

Warren G. Harding• Key Quality- NOT WILSON• Cut Taxes• Cut Government Spending• Pro-Business• Farm Relief

What Harding is Remembered for (When he is remembered at all)

• The Ohio Gang• Teapot Dome

Changes in Society

• Car Culture– The Ford Model T

• Radio

The Plight of the Farmers

• Farmers mass produced during WWI.

• War ravaged Europe started growing again.

• American farmers over produced, lower prices.

• American Tariffs, that protected manufacturing hurt agriculture.

Concerns about Immigration

• New Immigrants– South East Europe– Asia– Different culture– Different religion– Different political ideas

• Political Solution– Immigration Quotas

Nativism

• Palmer Raids

• Sacco and Vanzettii

• 2nd Rise of the KKK

Taking the Mind off the Troubles

• Sport

• Pro Baseball

• Local Ball– Town Pride is on the

line here!

Other SportJack Dempsey Man o’ War

Knute Rockne

National Football League