1920s The jazz Age Warm up Brain storm
1920’s The jazz Age
Warm up • Brain storm! as a group all you know about the USA in the 1920 s…. fashions, events, famous people, fads, trends etc, try for 10+! • Use phones only if you get stuck….
1920 s • Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea • Berries - is attractive or pleasing; similar to bee's knees, As in "It's the berries. " Slang • Big Cheese - The most important or influential person. Same as big shot Words • Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a prude Use 1 in • Bump Off - To murder • Carry a Torch - To have a crush on someone a • Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee's knees; The best or sentence! greatest • Cat's Pajamas - Same as cat's meow • Cheaters - Eyeglasses • Crush - An infatuation • Dogs - feet • Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls • Dumb Dora - a stupid female • Fall Guy - victim of a frame • Flat Tire - A dull insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, oilcan • Frame - To give false evidence, to set up someone • Gams - A woman's legs • Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol • Gin Mill - An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar • Hard Boiled - a tough, strong guy • Heebie-Jeebies - The jitters • Hooch - Bootleg liquor • Hoofer - Dancer • Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing
A Clash of values • 1920’s saw a clash between traditional and modern values • Post WWI America was prosperous and confident, consumerism was on the rise • Americans returned to ISOLATIONSIM: (staying apart from other Nations) and nativism.
Resurgence of nativism • Nativism: a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants • After WWI we hated and feared the Communists and immigrants. • Immigrants seen as threats. • New quotas set to restrict immigration.
The Palmer Raids 1919
Palmer Raids • 1919 After a series of bombings by ANARCHISTS, US Attorney General Robert Palmer conducts sweeping raids, arresting thousands of foreigners nation-wide. • Many were jailed and/or deported. Civil liberties were ignored. • Led into Red Scare! • Beginning of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover’s long career
The Red Scare • After WWI, people feared the spread of communism, “Workers of the world, UNITE!!” turmoil after war: gov’t price controls • (Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, 1917) • Economy in removed—led to high prices, workers’ strikes • Americans feared a communist conspiracy • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial • Two immigrant anarchist convicted of burglary and murder after a prejudiced trial I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I am an Italian and indeed I am an Italian. •
Eugenics: the “Pseudo-Science”
Eugenics • Used by nativists to argue superiority of whites. • Said human inequalities were inherited • Used to justify sterilization of mentally ill or handicapped Americans • Studies will be used by Nazi Germany in its push to create a master race and exterminate “undesirables”
Keep American • New laws restricted immigration, set quotas based on 1890 levels. • Mexican immigration— Mexico exempt from quotas; take work in agriculture. • Asian immigration: stopped almost completely
The Scopes “Monkey” Trial • • Creationism v. Evolution Old-fashioned v. Modern William Jennings Bryan v. Clarence Darrow 1925 Tennessee --- High school Science teacher John Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution. • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=vzp 3 n 51 p h. Hg
prohibition
The Volstead act • The law that enforced Prohibition • Took authority from the state governments and made the Treasury Dept responsible for enforcing Prohibition. • Increased the role of the federal gov’t in law enforcement • Most People quietly ignored this law! • They drank in Speakeasies! • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=_CE 4 u 6 j. I_ rc
The new American Hero • Sports: baseball, boxing, football, basketball
What are some of the messages of this AD?
Mass Media/advertising • Radio, newspaper, motion pictures, magazines help create a shared national culture • Advertising : Employed the use of psychological methods to encourage a type of behavior
African-American culture • The Great Migration • Hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the South moving to industrial cities looking for work and better lives.
African-American Politics • African-Americans have fewer voting restrictions in Northern cities. • Voting Blocs: greater concentration of blacks voting in the cities. More success in influencing voting. Blacks tended to vote Republican • NAACP: continues its fight against segregation, discrimination, and lynching.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance • The development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20 th Century. • Many famous African American Artists and writers came here. • VLA: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=SN 1 Wje Wz. CSk
Harlem • An area in NYC where many African. Americans settled. • Created a community of racial pride and success, political organization, and artistic development.
Harlem—Home of JAZZ • The Cotton Club, the Apollo, the Savoy
JAZZ and BLUES • A style of music that grew out of Dixieland, ragtime, and African spiritual influences. • Syncopated, soulful, swinging rhythms. • Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker
Writers and Poets of the Harlem Renaissance • Claude Mc. Kay— wrote against racism • Langston Hughes— focus on African. American pride, expectation of equality
Black nationalism • Promoted black pride and unity • Led by Marcus Garvey. • Believed African-Americans could gain economic and political power thru EDUCATION • Also pushed for separation and independence from whites • Garvey est’d the UNIA—United Negro Improvement Association • Proposed that blacks everywhere should return to Africa— “Pan-African” Movement
Marcus Garvey • Federal officials believed Garvey to be dangerous, afraid he would incite rebellion and violence. • Garvey was arrested and deported to Jamaica
Tulsa Race Riot • 1921 • Greenwood district of Tulsa destroyed– America’s “Black Wall Street” • Riot begins after Tulsa Tribune article publishes account of black man attacking a white woman in an elevator • White mobs burn Greenwood, citizens blocked fire dept from responding • Official death toll is 35, but is probably closer to 300. • No other arrests made • Dick Rowland released; Sarah Page did not press charges. • http: //www. tulsaworld. com/specialprojects/news/raceriot/multimedia. aspx
Wrap Up: • Create a Roaring Twenties Web or Graphic Organizer design depicting 20 + facts with at least 3 chains of facts linked together…. • Also design an IMAGE that illustrates something of the 1920 s…
- Slides: 37