Transcript The Self Expression Era

The Era of
Self Expression
Chapters 9-10
Why was PB so popular?
The Era of Self Expression
The Era of Self Expression: A limitless joyride
of flappers, dance marathons, transatlantic
flights, jazz, sports cars, speakeasies,
gangland warfare, and bootleg gin.
It was also called the Roaring Twenties, the
Dry Era, the Lawless Decade, the Get-RichQuick Decade, and of course the Jazz Age.
The Era of Self Expression
 106,521,537 people in the United
States
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Life expectancy: Male
53.6, Female 54.6
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Average annual earnings
$1236; Teacher's salary $970
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Illiteracy rate reached a new low of
6% of the population.
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It took 13 days to reach California
from New York. There were 387,000
miles of paved road.
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The US had pulled back completely
from World affairs.
Why was it the Era of Self
Expression?
1. Babe Ruth: Hit 60 home runs, played for 22 seasons
He pitched, fielded and hit.
2. Charles Lindbergh: soloed the Atlantic in The Spirit of St. Louis.
What was so lucky about “Lucky Lindbergh”?
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Soloed the Atlantic, 33.5 hours, 1000 miles.
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Brought only a few sandwiches and a quart of water
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3,600 miles that brought him $25,000 cash
3. First talking movie: The Jazz Singer, 1927.
4. KDKA the first radio station opened in 1920.
Prohibition:
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PROHIBITION (1920–1933 R.I.P.)
was known as The Noble
Experiment. The results of the
experiment are clear:
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Innocent people suffered
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Organized crime grew
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The police, courts, and politicians
became increasingly corrupt
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Disrespect for the law grew
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Consumption of alcohol increased
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Prohibition
What did the law say?
18th Amendment: prohibited the sale,
manufacture or transportation of
intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes.
The Great Migration: 1914-1950
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The Great Migration was
the movement of millions
African Americans out of
the rural Southern United
States from 1914 to 1950.
Most moved to large
industrial cities, such as
New York City;
Philadelphia, and Los
Angeles, California, as
well as to many smaller
industrial cities.
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Red Scare: Why was it so scary?
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The Communist party
represented labor. In the US in
1919 we had approximately
3500 labor strikes. The
American public thought we
were going to go Communist.
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The First Red Scare began
during the 1917-1918 period of
US participation in WW I.
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The Communist Revolution
(1917-1923) inspired a
campaign of violence in the
U.S. by anarchist groups and
aggressive labor unions, which
American politicians, the
media and the public blamed
on "communists".
Sacco and Vanzetti: the murder
occurred 1920 and executed in 1927
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Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Will
arrive in US in 1908. Both
men followed Luigi
Galleani an Italian
anarchist. (they were
atheist as well)
Italian immigrants that
were arrested and
executed for stealing and
murdering a guard.
($15,000) This trial
seemed to represent all
the fears during WWI.
Operas, plays, music, and poetry and paintings
were written or created about this court case.
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Politics in the 1920’s: 1918-1921
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The Mitchell Palmer Raids
were a series of controversial
raids by the U.S. Justice and
Immigration Departments from
1918 to 1921 on the radical left
in the United States.
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He will identify 10,000 radicals
and deported 556 people.
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Should the government have
the right to crack down on
political groups that are
unwanted in the US?
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Mitchell’s house was bombed
and this made him round up even
more people.
MARCUS GARVEY: 1887-1940
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Marcus Garvey was
born in Jamaica and
was a prophet in the
religion of Rastafari.
His influence came
from his message that
encourage poor
African Americans to
return to Africa.
Marcus Garvey and his back to
Africa movement
Marcus Garvey and his Back to
Africa movement
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Kellogg-Briand Pact: 1928
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The Kellogg-Briand
Pact, also known as the
Pact of Paris after the
city where it was signed
on August 27, 1928, was
an international treaty
that outlawed war." It
failed in its purpose
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It was created by Frank
Kellog and Aristotle
Briand.
Women’s Suffrage: 1919
(19th amendment )
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The movement to abolish
slavery paved the way for
the women's rights
movement in America.
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In 1919, after years of
petitioning, picketing, and
protest parades, the
Nineteenth Amendment
was passed by both
houses of Congress and
in 1920 it became ratified
under the presidency of
Woodrow Wilson.
Iron Jawed Angel HBO special
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Flappers
A short haired, boyish
young girl, daringly
outspoken on issues on
which she was informed
or not.
Her appearance, spunk,
and verve epitomized the
“new women.”
Harlem Renaissance and the
New Negro: 1920-1940
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The Harlem Renaissance was
an expression of AfricanAmerican social thought and
culture.
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The Harlem Renaissance was
expressed through every
cultural medium: visual art,
dance, music, theatre,
literature, poetry, and history.
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Harlem will be a place where
secret desires of sex, cocaine
and whiskey will be realized.
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Does culture symbolize
civilization?
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Harlem Renaissance:
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Pianos in the parlor went from 100,000 in 1890 to
300,00 in the 1920’s. This was symbol of status.
Jelly Roll Morton: Was the
founder of Jazz in New Orleans.
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He was a pimp and a had a diamond in his tooth. He used to
play piano in red light districts. Jazz will be a combination of
French, Creole and Spanish music.
Louis Armstrong: 1901-1971
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Dad left their family and mom put him in the care of his sister. Was put
into a boys home at a young age because he shot a gun in the air. He
will then learn to play the trumpet at the boys home as he bought one
with money from a paper route.
Duke Ellington: 1899-1974
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Most influential artists in music history. His career
spanned 50 years and called his music American
music instead of Jazz.
Music in the 1920’s
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The Jazz Age was started from
the instruments that were sold
after the Civil War to the public
in the South.
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Then in the 1920’s many of the
former slaves began playing
music in New Orleans and
Chicago.
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Eventually it made its way to
NY and the Cotton Club.
The Cotton Club: Cab Calloway
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Many musicians of the time got their start in the Cotton Club ie: Duke Ellington.
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance:
Cross
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My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
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And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
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My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?
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Langston Hughes: 1902-1967 more
poetry
Langston Hughes: 1902-1967
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The Charleston: popularized in
Charleston NC in 1923.
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Scopes Monkey Trial: Evolution or the Bible?
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John Scopes, a twenty-four-year old general
science teacher and part-time football coach. As
Scopes later described the meeting, Rappalyea
said, "John, we've been arguing and I said nobody
could teach biology without teaching evolution."
Scopes agreed. "That's right," he said, pulling a
copy of Hunter's Civic Biology--the state-approved
textbook--from one of the shelves of the drugstore
(the store also sold school textbooks). "You've
been teaching 'em this book?" Rappalyea
asked. Scopes replied that while filling in for the
regular biology teacher during an illness, he had
assigned readings on evolution from the book for
review purposes. "Then you've been violating the
law," Rappalyea concluded.
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The case ended with a guilty verdict, and Scopes
was fined $100, which Bryan and the ACLU offered
to pay.
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Test case that creates first media circus. It
also, helps keep people in school. The test
case actually turns serious.
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The John Scopes Trial
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Was an American legal
case that tested the
Butler Act which made it
unlawful "to teach any
theory that denies the
story of the Divine
Creation of man as taught
in the Bible, and to teach
instead that man has
descended from a lower
order of animals" in any
Tennessee state-funded
school and university.
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The trial drew intense
national publicity, with
modernists pitted against
traditionalists over the
teaching of evolution in
the schools and a
Fundamentalist
interpretation of the Bible.
The trial proved a critical
turning point in the
American creationevolution controversy
The Stock Market Crash: Oct 24th 1929
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In the fall of 1929, the New
York Stock Exchange was
more active than it had ever
been.
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Investors mortgaged their
homes, and foolishly invested
their life savings in hot stocks,
such as Ford and RCA. To the
average investor, stocks were
a sure thing.
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Economists predicted a
permanent high plateau.
Unfortunately the stock market
did crash and people lost
millions.
Stock market discussion
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Buying on margin
Stock split
Dividend
Taxes
CD's versus mutual funds
Purchasing a new car
Stock brokers
Commission.
Video on the stock market.
Why did the Stock market crash?
Over Speculation: People bought on margin and
because of optimism.
Government Policies: The government had a tight
money policy and dried up a lot of the money
circulation which caused the general public to be
without a lot of cash.
Unstable Economy: Wealth was unevenly distributed,
industry produced more goods than consumers
wanted or could afford.
The Growth of Radio
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click link for radio shows
/TV
Cartoon Characters
Children’s books:
Bambi,
Winnie the Pooh, Dr.
Doolittle, velveteen
rabbit
1922: Movies were
black &white and had
sound.
1926: Movies had color.
Hollywood movie stars.
Why else was it the Era of Self Expression?
Endurance games:
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Flagpole sitting:
How does anyone sit comfortably on a
flagpole?
Shipwreck Kelly sat on a pole for 49 days
They used a rubber covered wooden
seat fastened to a ball, he had finger
holes, straps and stirrups. He kept a
pocket shaver and a manicure kit in his
pocket. ( 145 days in one year of sitting=
$30,000)
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Dance marathons: In Chicago, one
went for 149 days
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Transcontinental Foot race: John Salo
573 hours 4 minutes and 34 seconds for
$10,000
Era of Self Expression cont. . .
4. King Tut: Many people were buying King Tut cigars,
bracelets, and hieroglyphic prints, handbags, and
dining chairs
The actual tomb was found in 1922 by Howard Carter
5. Model electric trains: This was the boy’s toy of the
decade
6. Airplane travel: only the rich would fly and it was
considered extremely dangerous
7. Air Mail: 31 of first 41 air-mail pilots died, and it cost 24
cents and was later backed by Congress and the
price dropped to 10 cents.
FUN FACT
What was the original use for Kleenex?
(1924) The Kleenex facial tissue was
originally a spin-off product used on
Broadway and in Hollywood to remove
make-up.
The Era of Self Expression: Vocabulary
bee’s knees: wonderful
cat’s meow: wonderful
lounge lizard: ladies’ man
Big Cheese: important person
flat tire: boring
hard boiled: tough
ossified: drunk
whoopee: convivial fun
gin mill: speakeasy
gold-diggers: wanting nothing but your money
go fly a kite: tell someone off
How would it sound at Mission if it where the 1920’s?
A cute flapper, who was the bee’s knees, or the
cat’s meow of Mission Viejo wanted to go out on
Friday night. Her date was a lounge lizard. He
might be a big cheese, or a flat tire, either hard
boiled, or peppy. Throughout the course of their
first date, which might include heavy necking, he
became ossified, having consumed too much
giggle water. After a night of whoopee at a gin
mill he upchucked. Unfortunately, the cute
flapper turned out to be a gold digger and in the
end he told her to go fly a kite.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN VIDEO 1889-1977
Charlie Chaplin:
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