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Society in the 1920s
• Men came back from the war disillusioned
• Women gained some independence during the war
– many had entered the workforce
– all were given the right to vote tradition
– People starting questioning tradition
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Flappers came to symbolize a new era of
freedom and
creativity
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They were rebellious and energetic
they were bold
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Grandma????????
• They disapproved of the way people behaved
• They disliked the way men flocked to them
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1920s Fashions
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1920s Fashions
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How do we change teens?
• Change for women started in WW I
• When the 19th amendment was passed women will get the right to vote
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• Hemlines rose from 9 inches above the ground to knee-length
• Amount of fabric in dresses changed from 19.5 yards to 7
• Women ‘bobbed’ their hair and heavy make-up
Society in the 1920s
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• Women began wearing make-up
• Women began smoking and drinking in public
• Before this women were proper
• Parents were enraged, a rebellion
Society in the 1920s
Women’s Liberation - 1920’s Style
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• Women were expected to quit when they married or became pregnant
• Women earned less than men in the same positions
• Not all women felt the same
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• Women were still closed out of many professional positions
• Example - women doctors were only allowed to treat female patients
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All we need is love
• All women did not agree with the new change or voting!
• 35% only went to the polls
• Many saw it as unprofessional
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• Women won the right to vote in 1920
• Only about 35% of women initially voted
• Increased as women became used to the idea
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So what do we vote on??
• most women had a hard time getting to the polls
• Families discouraged it
• Women, if they did vote what would vote on:– What their husband voted on– Women’s rights
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Sheppard Town Act
• 1st federal welfare program to promote prenatal health and women’s health
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ERA
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Jeannette Rankins- won the election for US House of Representatives
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• In addition to social changes, the US started changing demographically
• Demographics are the statistics that describe a population, such as race, ethnicity, gender and religion
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Major demographic change
• The major change for the United States was the movement away from the country side to a more urban area
• Why migrate??
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MOVE
• Well, farmers started doing poorly after the war. WHY?
• Industrial and commercial economies were booming but rural America was not part pf it
• MORE JOBS
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Come one, Come all, wait!!!
• As more people started moving into the small limits of the cities we had overcrowding problems
• Attendance at public schools went from 2.2 million to 4.4 million
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• African Americans continued to migrate north as well because of industrial growth
• Jim Crow Laws in the south were discriminating and cutting off jobs
Society in Society in the 1920sthe 1920s
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Was the North a Bowl of Candy?
• Blacks did not have it 100% better in the North
• Many whites criticized African Americans because they took their jobs away
• Cheap labor
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• Because we limited immigration many factory workers hired Mexicans and Canadians for cheap labor
• Created barrios, or Spanish Speaking communities where migrants lived
• Very congested and dirty
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Look at how Crowed!!
• Because the cities were over populated people started to look elsewhere to live
• Suburbs began to spring up
• Transportation will improve first with Electric Trolleys, then a bus system and later an affordable automobile
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• Lucky Lindy flew across the Atlantic in 1927
• His flight was 33 1/2 hours long from NY to Paris for $25,000
• He inspired a generation of aviators, including Amelia Earhart
• Plane was the Spirit of the St. Louis
• 1st born was kidnapped and murdered
Society in the 1920s
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First woman pilot
• Amelia Earhart, “America’s Fly Girl”
• First woman to fly over the Atlantic
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• Professional and amateur sports flourished in the 1920s
• Babe Ruth set home run records of 60 in a single season and 714 in his career
• Jim Thorpe, a Native American, became a professional football player after having his Olympic medals stripped
• Jack Dempsey, professional boxer
Society in the 1920s
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Sports in the 1920s
Babe Ruth Gertrude Ederle Jack Dempsey
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THE JAZZ AGE AND MASS MEDIA
Section 2
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Mass Media & the Jazz Age
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Hollywood if she could
• Hollywood was a small quiet town
• Became popular because of the different landscapes in close proximity
• Film makers started traveling there
• Actors liked it
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• Cecil B. DeMille rented a barn and began to produce silent movies
• The barn expanded into a huge movie studio
• It was located in a little known suburb of Los Angeles named Hollywood
Hollywood
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Cecil B. DeMille Films:
Sign of the Cross
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Cecil B. DeMille Films:
Unconquered
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What is Mass Media
• It includes print, film and broadcasting methods
• It communicates to LARGE numbers of people
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Before the Mass
• People knew little about what was going on around them
• Mass Media created a NATIONAL CULTURE
• Now people in one states could learn about another state be reading a newspaper or listening to the radio
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• Between 1920 - 1930 the number of movie theaters quadrupled to 22,500 from 5,000
• Tickets sales averaged 80 million each week; the countries population was 125 million
• The countries first ‘talkie’ was The Jazz Singer in 1927, Al Jolson was the star
Mass Media & the Jazz Age
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Movie Stars Greta Garbo & Lillian Gish
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1920’s1920’sGlamourGlamour
GirlGirl
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• Newspapers and magazines became larger, averaging over 50 pages in some from only 14
• Tabloids were popular for entertainment; they concentrated on sports, movies, and scandals and had few words and lots of pictures
• They replaced serious news with fun
• Many newspapers merged or were bought out by conglomerates
Mass Media & the Jazz Age
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• Frank Conrad was an engineer from Westinghouse began broadcasting recorded music and baseball scores
• The world’s first radio station, KDKA of Pittsburgh, soon followed
• The National Broadcasting System (NBC) formed to link individual stations together
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• Jazz began in New Orleans before the turn-of-the-century
• With the radio playing to millions, it would sweep the nation in the 1920s
• Duke Wellington wrote and performed over 1000 original songs
Where O Where Can Jazz Be??
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How is it different??
• Jazz used improvisation, which was really just “feeling” the music
• No note sheets etc.
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Black performers
played
jazz
for white
audiences
Most Jazz Clubs were in Harlem, New York.
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Shall we dance???
• Many danced the Charleston which was filled with kicks, twists
• Wasn’t unusual to see in Harlem
• Paintings reflected old and traditional times– O’Keefe
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Edward Hopper
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The Jazz AgeThe Jazz Age• The “lost generation” was a group of
artists and writers that were disillusioned with America
• Disliked conservative politics, prohibition, consumerism, and conformity
• Most of them spent the 1920s in Europe
• The Great Gatsby was written about the self-centered, shallow people in the USA
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The Jazz AgeThe Jazz Age
• In the Harlem Renaissance, people like Langston Hughes wrote about the difficulties of being black, being human, and being an American
• The following poem is entitled Cross, by Langston Hughes
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My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
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If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
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My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
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SECTION 3
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Cultural Conflicts
• Prohibition
• Religion
• Racial Conflicts
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Prohibition was supposed to cure the social evils of the time
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Prohibition
• The 18th amendment outlawed the sale, use, and manufacture of alcohol
• People used homemade stills and made “bathtub gin” and the President did not follow the law!
• Bootlegging, or smuggling alcohol, became very profitable
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Prohibition
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• Did not stop people from drinking
• Helped to establish organized crime in the USA
• Was repealed with the 21st amendment in 1933
Prohibition
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Main Goals
• 1. Eliminate drunkenness and family abuse
• 2. get rid of saloons, prostitution and gambling
• 3. prevent absenteeism from jobs and work-related accidents
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You must obey
• The President himself was not following Prohibition
• Volstead Act was implemented to enforce the 18th Amendment
• The 18th Amendment split the country:– Only 5% of people in NY obeyed– Yet 95% of people in Kansas obeyed
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The new criminal
• The bootlegger was the new criminal
• They sold illegal alcohol
• Some made it from food and others smuggled it from Canada and the Caribbean
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Speakeasies
• They were places where people went to get illegal booze
• Most had gates where you would show your ID
• Most were disguised as flower shops etc
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Come together
• Most criminals could not keep up with the demand
• They decided to merge
• Became so large that they bribed government officials and cops
• Begin of organized crime
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• Al Capone- also known as Scarface murdered his way up the chain in Chicago
• The FBI was later created for the purpose of stopping organized crime
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Religion
• Science and religion were in conflict
• Scientists believed in evolution, or the development of the world over time
• Fundamentalists interpret the bible literally; the bible says that the world was created by God in 6 days
• Clashes between the 2 groups continue to this day
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Scopes Trial• John T. Scopes was arrested for
teaching evolution in the classroom in 1925
• He was found guilty and fined $100
• This ‘trial of the century’ was the 1st to be broadcast on the radio
• This sparked an intensive debate on the roll of religion in public education
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Winner of the 1920Eugenics Society Perfect Baby
Contest
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Racial Tensions
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Racial Tensions• Race riots killed hundreds of
people in northern cities
• The KKK, which had died out after Reconstruction, was revived in 1915
• Between 1922-1924 its membership grew to 4 million
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Racial Tension
• NAACP and other groups fought for anti-lynching legislation
• Marcus Garvey called for a separation of the races and urged African-Americans to return to Africa
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Postwar Social Change
In spite of the many societal conflicts, the mood of the country was upbeat and hopeful, giving rise to the nickname
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Music Credits:Music Credits:
• It Don’t Mean a Thing by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
• Stormy Weather by Billie Holiday
• Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong
• Dream a Little Dream of Me by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
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The End!The End!