the roaring twenties the american age of ballyhoo the jazz age
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THE ROARING THE ROARING TWENTIESTWENTIES
The American Age of BallyhooThe American Age of Ballyhoo
The Jazz AgeThe Jazz Age
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Why were the 1920s the “Roaring Twenties”?
- time of rapid change
- people felt unsettled
- technological and scientific breakthroughs
- widening split between urban and rural life
- morality seemed to be changing in the disillusionment following WWI
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Changes and experiments in 1920 society
-Relaxed sense of morality
- the clash over evolution; the Scopes trial
- the “Noble Experiment” – prohibition
- suffragettes
- Margaret Sanger
-Urbanization
- racial tensions; the Klun Klux Klan’s resurgence
- the Harlem Renaissance
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
King of the Bootleggers, Al Capone
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Suffragettes marching infavor of the 19th Amendment
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John T. Scopes
Clarence Darrow and
William Jennings Bryan
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Marcus Garvey
Madame CJ WalkerDuke Ellington
W.E.B. DuBose
Zora Neal Hurston
Langston Hughes
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Education and Entertainment-Changes in public schools
- the challenge of immigrant children in schools
- the popularity of silent movies
- Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino
-Important films
-1903 The Great Train Robbery
-1915 Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
- 1927 The Jazz Singer- Odd fads
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The “It Girl” – Clara Bow
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Charlie Chaplin
The Little Tramp
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-The mass media continued to expand
- more magazines and newspapers
- the importance of radio
- 1920s literature included several key themes
- materialism; F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis, Main Street and Babbitt
- anti-war themes; Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
- dehumanization of modern era; T.S. Elliot, The Wasteland
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1920s Heroes
Charles Lindbergh- solo flight across Atlantic Ocean
Herman “Babe” Ruth – Sultan of Swat
Red Grange – the “Galloping Ghost”
Knute Rockne- Notre Dame coach
Jack Dempsey – boxing champion
Bobby Jones – golf champion
Tennis and horse racing also popular sports
Spectator sports became an American passion
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Charles Lindbergh
And
Babe Ruth