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Pump-Up
• Remember that the U.S. emerged from WWI as
a world power. Predict how this new status will
affect the U.S. economy in the 1920s.
The Roaring Twenties
Today’s Vocabulary
• Flappers
– Women’s lifestyle of the 1920s that suggested
independence and freedom.
• Speakeasies
– Illegal bars in the 1920s.
• Scopes Trial
– The “Monkey Trial” that said it was illegal to teach
evolution in schools.
• Harlem Renaissance
– Revival and rebirth of African American culture in the
1920s.
Mass Production
• Cars
– $850 in 1908
– $290 in 1927
• Radio
– Mass Advertising
• Movies
– “Talkies”
– The Jazz Singer
• Connected rural areas to urban
areas.
Stars
• Charles Lindbergh
– 1st transatlantic flight
Charles
Lindbergh
• Babe Ruth
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
– “Bernice Bobs her Hair”
– The Great Gatsby
• Sinclair Lewis
– Babbitt
• Ernest Hemingway
– A Farwell to Arms
– “Lost Generation”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Roles for Women
• Margaret Sanger
– Birth control
• Flappers
– Challenged traditional ideas of
proper dress and behavior.
– Lived a life of great
independence and freedom.
The Real Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Bootleggers
– Liquor smugglers.
• Speakeasies
– Illegal bars where alcohol
was served.
Murder Rate 1920-1940
Fundamentalism vs Modernism
• Revival of the KKK.
– Now also targeted immigrants and
other religions.
– Fighting for “Americanism.”
• Fundamentalism
– Believed every word of the Bible was
literal truth.
• Billy Sunday & Aimee Semple
McPherson
– Creationism.
The Scopes (Monkey) Trial
• Modernism
– Believed in science over
religion.
• Fundamentalists disagreed
with the theory of evolution.
• John Scopes arrested and
taken to trail.
– Convicted.
European Immigration, 1900-1924
Limiting Immigration
• National Origins Act
– Quota of 2% of each national
group represented in the
1890 census allowed in the
U.S.
Sacco & Vanzetti Case
• Sacco & Vanzetti were
arrested for armed robbery
and murder.
– Italian immigrants.
– Anarchists.
• On trial for their political
beliefs.
– Convicted and executed.
Harlem Renaissance: Literature
• Langston Hughes
– Wrote of African America
defiance in the face of
white prejudice.
• Zora Neale Hurston
– Described the rich culture
of African American life.
Harlem Renaissance: Music
• Harlem was the center for jazz.
– Cotton Club
• Louis Armstrong
Marcus Garvey
• Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA).
– Promoted self-reliance for African
Americans.
• Believed in separation of the
races.
– “Back to Africa” Movement.
Classwork
• Today you will read three articles that were
written about flappers. From these articles you
will interpret American feelings towards flappers
in the 1920s.
• Then you will compare/contrast flappers of the
1920s with the youth of today.
Reflection
• Explain how America entered the
“modern” world during the 1920s.