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The Roaring ‘ 20’s

The Great Migration • A. African Americans move from the South to the North • 1. Looking for work / opportunity in major cities of the North • 2. New York, Chicago, Detroit

Immigration Restrictions • A. Immigration Quotas • 1. Limit the number of immigrants coming to America • 2. Labor Union driven in some cases • 3. Restricted or even banned immigrants from Eastern Europe due to the Red Scare

• III. 18 th Amendment • A. Prohibition • IV. 19 th Amendment • B. Women’s right to vote

Mass Production • A. Ford Motor Company • 1. Henry Ford • 2. Use of the assembly line to mass produce cars • 3. “Buying on credit” – Installment plane • a. pay as you can, make the automobile affordable to the common citizen

Mass Media A. Radio 1. KDKA – Pittsburg a. 1 st radio broadcast nationally • B. Film • 1. Rise of Movies – moving pictures • 2. Edison creates the 1 st projector • 3. Hollywood • a. Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin

Sports – Mass Media contributes to • 3. Boxing the popularity of sports • a. Jack Dempsey • 1. Baseball • a. Babe Ruth • b. 1 st to have an agent • c. 1 st to do promotions / ads for consumer products • d. saved the “national pastime” • https: //www. biography. com/video/ba be-ruth-sultan-of-swat-2087064310 • 2. Football • a. emergence of Professional Football • b. Red Grange • 1. “Legitimized” professional football • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=O r 6 gj. Ypi. UGY • American’s first Heavy Weight Champion of the World • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Z b 6 VZBl_xak • 4. Tennis • a. Helen Willis - Moody • 1. 1 st American woman to win Wimbledon • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=C Lhrr 58 ka. Og • 5. Golf a. Bobby Jones b. helps establish the PGA http: //www. hickorygolf. net/vi deo/video-bobby-jones-2/

Literature • 1. Harlem Renaissance • a. African American literature that emerges from New York • b. art and literature that reflects the life and struggles of African Americans in the US • c. Claude Mc. Kay, Langston Hughes • 2. The Lost Generation • a. Earnest Hemmingway • b. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Great Gatsby

Music • Ragtime • Jazz • 1. Duke Ellington – Pianist, Bandleader • 2. Louis Armstrong – Trumpeter, Singer

Prohibition • 1. Organized Crime • a. Bootleggers • 1. Produce illegal alcohol • b. Speakeasies • 1. Hidden or secret bars that serve illegal alcohol. • c. Al Capone – the Mafia • 2. 18 th Amendment - prohibition • 3. 21 st Amendment – over turns prohibition