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Unit 4—Chapter 7. The Roaring Twenties CSS 11.5. Warm Up. What was the first American silent movie with a plot? What was the first “talkie” called? Who is Babe Ruth? What was a flapper? What did the Equal Rights Amendment do for women?. Part Four. A New Mass Culture - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Unit 4—Chapter 7The Roaring Twenties
CSS 11.5
Warm Up
• What was the first American silent movie with a plot?
• What was the first “talkie” called?• Who is Babe Ruth?• What was a flapper?• What did the Equal Rights Amendment
do for women?
Part FourA New Mass Culture
11.5.4 - Analyze the passage of the 19th Amendment and the changing role of women in society. 11.5.5 - Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special
attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).11.5.6 - Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion
of popular culture. EQ: How did the new mass culture reflect technological and social changes?
Mass Media
• Radio, 1920• created a national rather than
regional culture• encouraged consumption• new avenues for fame
• Phonograph, 1877• allowed music and speeches to
spread nation wide• mass production became available in
the 1890s
• Silent Movies• silent movies vied with radio for
popularity• serial films were followed like TV
today
Mass Media
• Great Train Robbery, 1903• this 12-minute film was one of the first to
tell a story• it was proceeded by the shorter
nickelodeon
• Birth of a Nation, 1915• D.W. Griffith showed the KKK saving
America from blacks after the Civil War• the NAACP protested the film• it led to violence and even killing• highest box office of the silent movie era
($10 million)• equivalent of $200 million today
• Jazz Singer, 1927• first of the “talkies” and the end of the
silent-movie era• starred Al Jolson in black face
Mass Media
• Baseball• became immensely popular with the
advent of radio• Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb
• the 1919 Black Sox scandal was bigger than Tea Pot Dome
• It became “America’s Pastime”
• Babe Ruth (The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat)• paid more than the President• greatest baseball player of all time
• lifetime batting average .342, 714 home runs
G AB R H HR RBI BB SO Avg. OBP SLG
2,503 8,398 2,174 2,874 714 2,217 2,062 1,330 .342 .472 .690
Mass Media
• Charles Lindbergh (Lucky Lindy)• first solo flight across the Atlantic
from New York to Paris in 1927• became the first Time Man of the
Year in 1927
• pioneered commercial aviation
• his baby son was kidnapped and murdered in 1932
• ten-week search led to false negotiations and ultimately the baby’s body was found
• kidnapping became a federal offense
Women’s Rights
• Changes in Employment for Women• some broke into journalism,
aviation, medicine, and the law• most women still worked in
domestic service and manufacturing
• The Flapper (The New Woman)• symbol of new feminine freedom• followed the same rules as men• shorter hair, shorter hemlines,
makeup
Women’s Rights
• Nineteenth Amendment, 1920• women voters helped elect female
governors in WY and TX and the first female senator
• originally most female voters supported the Republican Party but today most support the Democrats
• Equal Rights Amendment, 1924 (ERA)• attempted to require equality under
the Constitution• most states require it today and it
failed in the 1970s• child custody, divorce, and equal pay
were still major issues• Gertrude Ederle swam the English
Channel in 1926 at the age of 21 (only 5 men had done it)
• she swam over 20 miles in just over 14 hours
Modernism vs. Fundamentalism
• Modernism• new emphasis on science and secular
(non-religious) values• strongest in urban areas• Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis• Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Modernism in Art and Literature
• The Lost Generation• writers from the 1920s who had
become disillusioned by the romanticism of the late 1800s
• they questioned tradition, religion, and society • Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald
EQ:
• How did the new mass culture reflect technological and social changes?