Prohibition and the Flappers The Roaring 20 s
Prohibition and the Flappers The Roaring 20 s!!!
Charleston https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=SJ 70 THd. Dnew 1) What can you infer about the 1920 s based on this video? 2) How does the music reflect the times? 3) What kind of name would you give this era based on the music and dance? “The _____ 20 s”
Aim: Should the 1920 s be considered a cultural shift or a revolution? Key Terms: 18 th Amendment Volstead Act Charleston Racketeers Al Capone “Speakeasies/Tea Parties/Bathtub Gin” KKK support for Prohibition Essential Questions: (1) Who can we consider the corrupt ones, the law makers or the law breakers? (2) Were the law breakers and flappers revolutionaries in their own right? Why or why not? (3) Are flappers a version of feminists?
General Mood… • 1920 s dominated by conservative Republican presidents • Americans experienced an unprecedented burst of consumer activity due to mass-production commodities available • Tensions prevailed between rural and urban America • Feelings of nativism and racism ran high • U. S. government persecuted radicals in the red scare.
1920 s Lingo: Tin Lizzie (1915) – automobile. “Let’s go for a ride in my tin lizzie. ” Sheik (1919) – ladies’ man (dreamboat, heartthrob) Know One’s Onions (1922) – to be thoroughly knowledgeable or competent in a subject area. “That Plumber really knows his onions. ” Hotsy-totsy (1926) – pleasing, perfect, fine, sometimes used ironically… “Once I got bumped up to first-class, everything was hotsy-totsy. ” Ankle (1926) – to walk. “She ankled over to the popsicle stand. ” All-Wet (1923) – completely wrong, in error. “He’s all wet on those dotcom stocks. ” The Bee’s Knees (1923) – extraordinary person or thing, unparalleled excellence. “This APUSH class is the bee’s knees. ” The Berries (1917) – something or someone unusually attractive, pleasing, or excellent. “My new boyfriend/girlfriend is the berries. ”
Prohibition
Al Capone
NYC’s 21 Club When cops would raid, the bartender would press a button, flipping the bar’s shelves upside down and smashing the bottles of booze directly into the NYC sewer system.
'21's Wine Cellar was, and still is, in 19 West 52 nd Street. During Prohibition, '21' did not own the building at 19 West 52 nd Street, they just rented the cellar. Because of this, when employees were asked by Federal agents if there was liquor on the premises, they could truthfully answer "No, sir!"
Cover of Life, 2/18/1926 Illustration by John Held. How to do the Charleston.
Popular Art MOMA opens in 1929 and was known for avant garde* styles. avant garde: new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts.
ESSAY Prep and 1920 s Life Use all of your materials from your 1920 s days!!!
Introduce DBQ Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of the following Documents and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period.
“The economic prosperity of the 1920 s failed to prevent the social, cultural, and political divisions of the United States. ” Assess the validity of this statement using the documents and your knowledge of the period of the 1920 s. DBQ…
Economic Prosperity • Job Availability : decrease in immigration, increased production • Assembly line: increase in jobs, production cheaper products = increased consumerism • Decreased work hours; increased wages; disposable income increased consumerism • National Creditors; collecting foreign debts • Credit purchases • Government lifting control on businesses • Technology – radio/ads = increased purchasing • Unfair business dealings…greed…oil… • Focus on big business again; Calvin Coolidge – decreased taxes, decreased welfare spending (reduction in money to veterans). • Welfare Capitalism anti- union. Division b/t workers and businesses.
Economics of 1920 s… • Labor advances being taken back by having the government first control the industry (for war purposes) and then allowing private business to take control again. Harding gets rid of War Industries Board. Therefore, the post war prosperity was a temporary gain b/c private business was looking out for its own interest and not those of the people…(proof? ) because business owners were once again going against laborer interests…(sp. ? ) which left us divided as in the Progressive era…
Social and Cultural Social – relationships between people Cultural – relating to life; music, religion, clothes, dance, language.
Economic Prosperity - unified Economic prosperity did not do enough, divisive Social/Cultural Unity Social/Cultural division (1) Mass culture/consumption a) Everyone had radios – listened to same music, interested in baseball, all go news. b) Ads & physical focus. c) Less work hours leisure time d) Jazz – unified races/bought records (2) People were able to become who they wanted to be b) Women – rt. To vote c) Harlem Renaissance music/dance (1) Fundamentalism vs. Modernism a) Prohibition – KKK supports prohibition…Wets vs. Drys b) Evolution c) Women roles - Nat. Womens’ Party, Alice Paul militant radical, total equality (Equal rights amendment) d) Scopes “Monkey” Trial Jennings Bryan= Fundamentalist. e) youth culture (2) Racism Nativism a) Red scare- anti-communism sentiment. /immigration ( Sacco & Vanzetti. ) b) Palmer Raids c) Quota Acts 1921; Johnson Reed Act of 1924 d) Harlem Renaissance – rejection of white culture
Economic Prosperity - unified Economic prosperity did not do enough, divisive Political Unity Political Division (3) Women unified [SOCIAL/POLITICAL] (3) Rural vs. Urban [SOCIAL/POLITICAL] a) Rt. to vote, 19 th Amendment – Cady Stanton a) Gov’t buys farm surplus; farms b) Christian Temperance Union – run by struggling. Farmers Marketing Act political women. b) Urban growth (due to job opportunity c) New style/flapper and immigration) causes responses d) Fought for rts. – Margaret Sanger/birth such as Quota Acts, Prohibition focus control (4) Party politics/Conservatism (4) Isolationists a) Political Scandals – Tea Pot Dome a) post war nationalism b) Big business vs. laborers; Eschb) Japan – War of Words Cummins Transportation Act of 1920 c) 5 Power Treaty – reduction of arms; gave RR back to private ownership and Washington Arms Conference. Harding gets rid of War Industries Board shows resurgence of big business, and d) Interested in “Return to normalcy” losses to laborers and Progressive sucesses. Warren G. Harding e) Communism brings about nationalistic feelings.
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