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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

• n an conveyor belt and assembled

piece by piece

Significance: Increase production & advance economy  people buying

• n 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
• ut 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

• f American

culture / unity

Presidential Policy Contributing to U.S. Prosperity

Warren 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