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The Roaring 20’s
Prohibition, Bootleggers, Flappers, Monkeys, and Baseball…and then the party ends…
“Silent Cal” Becomes President
• “The business of America is Business”– Coolidge believed in little
government intervention in the economy
• Said very little
Silent Cal Gives the People what They Want – laissez-faire!
In history in times when we have a period of loss of faith in our
government it is often followed by a rebellious reaction.
Era of Trust Titans & Robber Barons Progressive Era
Era of Scandals & Fears Roaring Twenties
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs From Thistles
Victorian Fashion of 19th Century
Notice the ankles
showing!!!
Women:• Short permed hair• Swingy, flowy skirts & dresses• Flashy, gaudy jewelryMen:• Sleek hair• Smart, stylish tuxedoes
• “Boxing Match Witnessed by 19,650!”• “Grown Men Spending Their Time
Knocking a Little White Ball Along the Ground Scoffed At”
• “Harvard Beats Yale!”• “World Series Pitcher Sold to Yanks to
Finance Play”
Sports Headlines
Sports Become immensely popular, especially
because of the mass production of radios
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Bobby Jones
Red Grange
1919 World Series
• Eddie Ciccote, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Chick Gandil, et al
• Sharp shift in betting odds• White Sox became underdogs against
Reds
Throwing the game away
1921 confessions branded these men forever as the “Black Sox”
Radio and the Movies
• First radio station = KDKA (Pittsburgh)—1920
• NBC = first radio network (1926)
• Average annual movie attendance = 90 million
• The advent of “talkies” (1927)
• Disney pioneers in the arena of animation and sound (1928)
Charlie Chaplin
Skyscrapers
• The race to build higher• The Chrysler Building
(1929-1930)• The Empire State
Building (1931)• Skyscrapers offered new
opportunities for women professionally– Secretaries, Receptionists
Fitzgerald v. Hemingway
• Fictitious works on characters based on himself
• Had one great love; Zelda
• Died believing himself a failure
• Greatest accomplishment: The Great Gatsby
• Work was largely autobiographical, but under the guise of “fiction”
• Preferred Europe over his native country
• Married several times, took many lovers
Media Influences Society
• Newspapers – people had an alarming amount of faith in the newspapers
• Every morning Babbit would read the daily newspaper to know what kind of attitude he should have to fit in with society
“Well, there’s a smiling face, a fireplace,
a cozy room; a little nest that’s nestled where the roses bloom.
Just Molly and me, and baby makes three...
We’re happy in my blue heaven”
• What do you think the song is about?
Bedrooms: 2Full Bath(s): 1Sq. Ft.: 1120Stories: 1
Falling Waters – Frank Lloyd Wright
Describe who was most likely to live in each one of these houses from the 1920s.
Bungalow Style Architectually Designed
Transportation1. Charles Lindbergh (May 20, 1927)- Lindbergh became a national hero when he became the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Prohibition (January
16, 1920)- This amendment (the 18th) to the constitution prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of liquor. In 1933, the 21st amendment repealed (canceled out) the Prohibition of alcohol.
Prohibition was a failure because people refused to comply with the new law. People would go to Speakeasies (places where liquor was illegally sold) to buy alcohol. In addition, Prohibition helped create the Mafia and made Al Capone a hero. Capone was finally convicted of tax evasion and sent to Alcatraz.
Evolutionism vs. Creationisma. Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)- IN 1925, John T. Scopes (a high school biology teacher) was put on trial for teaching evolution. Scopes hired Clarence Darrow (like Johnny Cochran) to defend him. The debate was supposed to be over a teacher’s right to choose what to teach, but turned into what scientific theory was right: Evolutionism or Creationism.
Timeline of Events
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 192418th Amendment: bans manufacture, sale and transport of intoxicating liquors
Black Sox ScandalChicago White Sox are paid by gamblers to lose the World Series
Babe Ruth: sold to Yankees from Red SoxProhibition goes in effectNational Football League is foundedKDKA in PittsburghFirst successful on air radio stationWarren Harding elected as president
Black Sox consequencePlayers banned from baseballRadio-baseballFirst baseball broadcastSacco-Vanzetti: Italian immigrants convicted of a holdup murder in an unjust trial
Louis ArmstrongJoins King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Rudolph Valentino/ Charlie ChaplinSilent movies become popular
Yankee Stadium opens
President Harding dies; succeeded by Calvin Coolidge
Ku Klux KlanPeaks at 3 million membersTeapot Dome ScandalCongress investigatesImmigration: restricted by CongressWealthy Rule:Leopolds murder Bobby Franks Coolidge becomes president
TimeLine of Events1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930Scopes Monkey TrialJohn T. Scopes is tried for teaching evolution
Dion O’Banion; infamous Chicago mobster is murdered
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is formed
Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel
Rudolph Valentino dies
Charles Lindberg flies from New York to ParisSacco/ Vanzetti executedBabe Ruth hits his 60th home runColumbia Broadcasting System(CBS) is formedCotton Club opens in Harlem
Herbert Hoover defeats Al Smith for presidency
Franklin Roosevelt is elected governor of NY
St. Valentine’s Day MassacreFive of Al Capone’s rivals are killed
Stock Market crashes (October 29)
Unemployment reaches 4 to 5 million
Great Depression begins