The Roaring 20’s · The Red Scare • Russian Revolution causes fear of the spread of Communism...
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The Roaring 20’s
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Youth set the Scene • Fads of the time: Dance marathons, flagpole sitting, gold fish swallowing,
telephone booth packing, crossword puzzles, roller skating…
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Jazz Music • Grew out of the African American community, rarely written down. Early
pioneers were • Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith Billie Holiday Glen Miller
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Jazz Music cont • Dance clubs opened e.g. The Cotton Club • New dances developed e.g. the Charleston • Radios transmitted music, phonographs played jazz music
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Cars • Played a new role in the freedom of youth, gave them mobility. Birth of
“parking”
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Flappers • Characteristics
– Short skirts, makeup, drinking and smoking in public, “bobbed” hair, skinny
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Men’s Image • Reckless, drive cars, raccoon coats, zoot suits, golf socks, public drinking
and smoking
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Results of the Jazz Age • Some new freedoms for women (voting), only a smaller section of the
population made many changes
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The Red Scare • Russian Revolution causes fear of the spread of Communism • Post WWI any strikes, labor movement, leaders were associated with
Communism or Socialism • Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer conducts raids on foreigners,
anarchists, communists. Deports many. No regard for civil liberties, eventually runs out of steam and credibility
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Postwar American Attitudes • Ended Progressive Ideals, people became more cynical and there was a
disconnection with American Intellectuals • Lost Generation – Groups of writers who left the country or wrote about
disillusionment with materialism and outdated moral values. • Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Gertrude Stein
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Postwar American Attitudes cont • Fear of foreigners led to passage of the National Origins Act. Restricted
immigration numbers.
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PAA cont. • Sacco and Vanzetti Case
– Two Italian anarchists who were convicted and executed for murder and robbery of a payroll guard. Little evidence and the trial was prejudiced.
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PAA cont • Rise of Nativist Movement led to the growth of the KKK. Over 5 million
members by 1925. Targeted Af. Am, foreigners, Jews, Catholics, communists, evolutionist.
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Movements of the 20’s • Prohibition – Volsted Act (18th Amendment) prohibits the sale, manufacture,
consumption or transportation of alcohol.
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Movements cont • Fundamentalism vs. Modernism came to a head in the Scopes Monkey
Trial. William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow debating the teaching of Evolution in schools in Dayton, Tennessee.