Transcript Roaring20s.ppt

Roaring 20’s
Life in the United
States
War is Over!
• Sense of Euphoria erupts all over the US
with the end of the war.
• Russian revolution caused a “RED
SCARE” in the USA - the fear of
communists, socialism or extreme ideas.
• As a result, Union organizers are
arrested, jailed and tried for disrupting
businesses all across the country.
• A ship workers strike in Seattle
paralyzed the nations transportation
RED SCARE paralyzes the
country
• Sept. 1919 - Steelworkers strike in Gary, IN. US
Steel claimed it was a communists activity and
used Pinkertons to break strike.
• Nov. 1919 - Policemen in Boston go on strike.
Police commissioner fires 19 of them. Whole
force strikes!
• 1920 - Palmer Raids - Attorney general sets up
raids on suspected foreign radicals and arrests
and jails 1,000’s.
• Jan 1920 - New York State Assembly voted to
The Changing Times
Clara Bow
Tallulah Bankhead
Felix the Cat
Fatty Arbuckle
• Daylight Savings Time
Started because of the
War efforts!
• Jazz Music becomes
popular!
• Radio broadcasts for the
very first time!
• Hollywood becomes the
center of the
entertainment world!
• Charlie Chaplin, Babe
Ruth, Charles Lindbergh
SACCO & VANZETTI
• April 15, 1920 - gunmen
killed guard and paymaster
in Massachusetts factory.
• Police arrested two Italian
Immigrants who owned
same type of guns used in
the Crime.
• They both were admitted
anarchists and their Italian
Heritage did not help their
cause.
• No evidence existed to
prove their guilt or
KILL THE GOOMBAHS
Age of the Flapper
• Many men and women
move into their own
Apartments for the 1st
time.
• Many women get
secretarial and office jobs
instead of factory jobs.
• Music, Movies and Dance
Halls become popular
destinations for American
young people.
Entertainment Districts
• Big cities fill up with people
looking for a good time.
• The Jazz Age was the
name of the time period.
• Charlie Parker, Louis
Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
and Bessie Smith become
popular entertainers of the
time!
• Men purchase ZOOT
SUITS!
• Women purchase
DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY
First Radio Station KDKA
• November 2, 1920 - First
Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 1921-1st Baseball
Broadcast
Broadcast during the
Harding Cox Election.
• They broadcast the
Election results before
the Newspaper could
print them.
• Also one of the only
Radio Stations in the
country with call letters
that don’t Start with letter
“W”
People let loose
• Most Popular Dances
– Charleston
– Cake - Walk
– Turkey Trot
– Bunny Hug
– Black Bottom
• Almost all were inspired by
or created by African
Americans.
• Some Americans put down
the new crazes but most
embraced them
Barriers Broken Down
• Men & Women now dated without
Chaperones!
• They talked slang and jive to each
other.
• Danced with their bodies touching!
HEAVENS!
• Most defied the accepted social Norms
of the Time whenever they could!
• Women’s clothing became more
Harlem Renaissance
The World is a Stage
Harlem Renaissance
• African Americans
migrated to the North for
jobs, education and many
other opportunities!
• After the Great Migration
had occurred, African
Americans in Urban cities
flourished.
• Harlem grew from 14,000
in 1914 to 200,000 in
1920!
• Harlem was fashionable
and exciting.
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The Cotton
Club
“First and
Foremost in
Bringing Broadway to
Harlem and Harlem to
Broadway”
• The first Cotton Club
revue was in 1923.
There were two new fast
paced revues produced
a year for at least 16
years
• The Duke Ellington
Orchestra was the
"house" orchestra for a
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All the white world came
to Harlem to see the
show.
Artists of the Time:
Cab Calloway
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Bessie Smith
All of them performed at
the World Famous Cotton
Club
African American Authors
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale
Heroes & Heroines
The Worship of National Idols
Charles Lindbergh
• National Hero from Minnesota.
• Made living as a Stunt Flyer!
• May, 1927 - 25 year old
Lindbergh competed for $25,
000 prize for a Non Stop
Atlantic Flight!
• Flew Spirit of St. Louis from
New York to Paris, landed May
21st!
• Papers declared him to be US
personified! Hero of America!
Ziegfield Follies
• Broadway Revue
Show.
• Featured scantily
clad Women,
elaborate Dance
Routines and Hours
of Music and
Entertainment.
• They were
performed in New
York and around the
Dance Marathons
• Teenagers participated
in all night, 24 hour
Dance Marathons.
• Social Events were
centered around Dance,
Music and good spirited
fun!
• Also popular: Quija
Boards, Crossword
Puzzles and Flagpole
Sitters!
Stars of the Day
• WC Fields
• My Little Chick - A - Dee
• Started as a Vaudeville
performer
• Was a top Juggler and
star of the Ziegfield Follies
after leaving home at the
Age of 11!
• Hated Children, Bankers
and Authority and most of
Douglas Fairbanks
• Actor, Producer and Director
• Appeared in Many Silent
Films including:
• Mask of Zorro (1920)
• Three Musketeers (1921)
• Robin Hood (1922)
• Thief of Baghdad (1924)
• Went on to form United
Artists Picture company
which still exists!
John Barrymore
• Said to be America’s Finest Actor
at the time.
• One of the Best known and most
sought after Actors of the Day.
• Plays Include:
• Hamlet
• Richard III
• Justice
• Great Grandfather of Drew
Barrymore
Mary Pickford
• Considered to be the most
Beautiful woman of the Day.
• Serial Movie Star of the “Perils
of Pauline”
• She was known as “America’s
Sweetheart”
• Went on to be a Film Producer
and Director, one of the first
Women to do so!
Sultan of Swat
• The most popular Sports Star of
the Decade, and maybe of the
Century until Jordan!
• Won the World Series for the
Boston Red Sox in 1915, 1916
and 1918 as a Pitcher!
• Was sold to the Yankees for
400,000 dollars and played from
1920 to 1934 for them!
• Hit 60 Home Runs in 127
Games in 1927. Record stood
‘til 1961
Harry Houdini
• American Magician, born in
Budapest.
• He showed astounding ability in
extricating himself from
handcuffs, ropes, locked trunks,
and bonds of any sort.
• At one time he had himself tied
and then locked in a packing
case, which was bound with
steel tape and dropped into the
harbor off the Battery in New
York City
Scopes Monkey trial
• 1925 State of TN
prosecuted a High School
Biology teacher for
teaching Evolution.
• Garnered World wide
attention as the “Monkey
Trial” because Evolution
said people were
descended from Monkeys.
• Clarence Darrow was
Scopes lawyer.
• William Jennings Bryan Prosecutor.
Cartoons of the Time
Gangsters, Bootleggers
& Criminals
Gangland Chicago and Beyond
Leader of Chicago
• Al Capone - The Bootleg
King
• Also Known as
“SCARFACE”
• Ran Chicago’s organized
Crime Syndicate and
collected about 100 million
per year from Illegal Stills,
Moonshine, and
Speakeasies!
• Frequented Houses of
Prostitution and Gambling
Prohibition
• 1919 - 18th
Amendment is ratified
which prohibits the
production, sale of
consumption of Alcohol
anywhere in the USA!
• Prohibition was almost
impossible to enforce.
People would have to
be searched everyday!
St. Valentines Day
Massacre
One February evening in North Chicago, seven
well-dressed men were found riddled with bullets
inside the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage. They had
been lined up against a wall, with their backs to
their executioners and shot to death. With the
exception of Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer these
men were mobsters working under the leadership
of gangster and bootlegger, "Bugs" Moran. Within
a few seconds, while staring at a bare brick wall,
these seven men had become a part of
Valentine's Day history: the St. Valentine's Day
The Untouchables
• Elliot Ness was the Head of the
Chicago Office of the FBI which
was supposed to enforce the
laws of Prohibition.
• Earned the nickname because
neither he nor his partners
would take Bribes from the
Capone Gang.
• This was unusual for the Time
Period.
• Brought down Al Capone!
John Dillinger
• Public Enemy Number 1
• He committed a series of
crimes throughout the
Midwest during a 13 month
crime spree.
• Liked to Rob Banks with his
Gang which included “Baby
Face Nelson” and “Pretty
Boy Floyd”.
• Notorious for his escape
from Jail in Crown Point
Indiana with a gun made of
The Dillinger Gang
Harry Pierpont Charles Makley
Baby Face
Nelson
Homer Van
Meter
Tommy Carroll
Eddie Green
Russell Clark
“Red” Hamilton
He escaped from Prison
Several Times
Tripped up by a Woman
• July 22, 1934
• Dillinger was executed
outside of the Biograph
Theater in Chicago, IL
• Woman in Red, a
Prostitute made a deal
with the FBI to help
capture him!
• He was killed in a hail of
bullets and she was
deported to Romania.
Selling of America
• First “Chain”
Supermarkets are built.
• Top Grocery Chain is A&P
with 5,000 stores in 1922!
• First Fast Food Joint is
the A&W Root beer chain!
• Advertising ideas of the
day wanted to solve
everyone’s problems and
make life easier!
Events of the 1920’s
• 1920 - Post Office accepts the Postage
Meter
• 1921 - Western union Wire Photo
Service
• 1922 - First Commercial $100 for 10
min.
• 1923 - Kodak sell first home movie
camera
• 1924 - 2.5 million Radios in the USA
• 1925 - All Electric Phonograph Built
Events of the 1920’s
• 1927 - Movietone offers Newsreels with
Sound
• 1928 - Teletype Machine make its debut
• 1928 - Steamboat Willie Introduces Mickey
Mouse
• 1928 - First Color Motion Picture Shown.
• 1929 - Brokers watch Stock Prices on
Board!
• 1929 - magnetic Sound recorded on plastic
Tape
October 29, 1929
• Stock Market Drops
about 200 points.
• Had been averaging
381 points per day,
but fell to 191 on
Black Tuesday.
• People panicked and
sold 16.4 million
shares in one day!
• This created Chaos!
The Decade Ends in a
Shambles