Objectives
Students will
• investigate the Essential Question: What social trends and innovations shaped
popular culture during the 1920s?
• describe the social trends and innovations that shaped popular culture during
the 1920s.
• compare and contrast the social trends of the 1920s with the social trends of
today.
• learn and use the Key Content Terms for this lesson.
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CHAPTER 28 SEC 3
POPULAR CULTURE IN THE ROARING
TWENTIES
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
WHAT SOCIAL TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS SHAPED POPULAR CULTURE DURING
THE 1920’S
ROARING TWENTIES-a nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade's
prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom
CHAPTER 28 SEC 3
AMERICANS TAKE TO THE AIR AND
ROADS
LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT
- AMERICANS LOOKING FOR A HERO AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
- CHARLES LINDBERGH- FIRST PERSON TO FLY SOLO NONSTOP ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
A.)PLANE WAS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF ST.LOUIS
5 YEARS LATER
AMELIA EARHART – FIRST WOMEN TO FLY SOLO, NON STOP ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
A.)LATER DISAPPEARED ON A FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD IN THE
PACIFIC
HENRY FORD
- MADE CARS AFFORDABLE FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON
- PEOPLE COULD LIVE FARTHER AWAY FROM CITIES AND WORK THUS
LEADING TO THE RISE OF SUBURBS
A.) ROADS IMPROVED AND HIGHWAYS BUILT
CHAPTER 28 SEC 4
MASS MEDIA SHAPE AMERICA POPULAR
CULTURE
2.) RADIO- TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT
1.)- NEWSPAPERS WAS THE ONLY NEWS SOURCE
UNTIL RADIO
2.)- COULD HEAR THINGS LIVE FOR THE FIRST
TIME
3.)- BASEBALL GAME (AMERICANS PASTIME)
BABE RUTH- MOST FAMOUS SPORTS
HERO OF THE TIME
CHAPTER 28 SEC 5-7
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- EXPANSION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTIC CREATIVITY DURING THE 1920’S
IN HARLEM NEW YORK
GREAT MIGRATION- HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE
NORTH FOR JOBS AND GET AWAY FROM RACIAL VIOLENCE
1.) NORTHENS NOT HAPPY WITH THE MIGRATION
A.) RACIAL TENSION INCREASE
- WITH THE AMOUNT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVING INTO THE HARLEM AREA
NEW CULTURES AND CUSTOMS WERE CELEBRATED
1.) RENAISSANCE WAS ABOVE ALL A
LITERARY MOVEMENT
A.)WROTE ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO
LIVE IN A WHITE WORLD
B.)BEST KNOWN WRITER WAS A
LANGSTON HUGHES WROTE POEMS
2.) MUSIC – JAZZ
A.)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND DUKE
ELLINGTON
Objectives
Students will
• investigate the Essential Question: How did social, economic, and religious
tensions divide Americans during the Roaring Twenties?
• identify the perspectives of traditionalists and modernists on important social
issues of the 1920s and discuss opinions about these issues.
• synthesize information from the text and the class discussion to write a
comparison of traditionalist and modernist perspectives on a 1920s’ social issue
that is still controversial today.
• Learn and use the Key Content Terms for this lesson
CHAPTER 29
THE CLASH BETWEEN TRADIONALISM
AND MODERISM
- IN THE 1920’S PEOPLE BEGAN MIGRATING TO THE LARGE CITIES, THUS
BRINGING DIFFERENT CULTURES, MORALS ETC… TOGETHER
TRADITIONALISM- FOLLOWING PRACTICES, BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS ESBALISHED
OVER TIME AND PASSED FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT
MODERNIST- PEOPLE WHO EMBRACE NEW IDEAS, STYLES AND SOCIAL CHANGES
PROHIBITION EXPERIMENT
- IN JANUARY 1920 THE 18TH AMENDMENT GOES INTO EFFECT
PROHIBITION- BANNING OF ALCOHOL
1.MOST SUPPORT CAME FROM THE SOUTH AND WEST
2.ALCOHOL THEY SAID LED TO CRIME, WIFE AND CHILD ABUSE,
ACCIDENTS
TEETOTALERS- PEOPLE WHO OPPOSED DRINKING
HOWEVER
- AFTER WWI MANY PEOPLE WERE TIRED OF MAKING SACRIFICES AND WANTED
TO ENJOY LIFE AND WAS AGAINST PROHIBITION
A.) GOVT SET THEMSELVES UP TO FAIL, THEY NEVER PUT MUCH
MONEY INTO UPHOLDING THE 18TH AMENDMENT
- PEOPLE CONTINUED TO DRINK THEY JUST HAD TO HID IT FROM AUTHORITIES
- NASCAR WAS CREATED DURING THIS TIME BEGINNING AS RUNNING
MOONSHINE
SPEAKEASIES- HIDDEN BARS AND NIGHT CLUBS
A.)CALLED IT SPEAKEASIES BECAUSE PEOPLE SPOKE EASY OR QUIETLY
TO AVOID DETECTION
1.) NEW YORK ALONE THERE WERE 32,000 SPEAKEASIES
THE TWENTIES WOMAN
- WOMEN WANTED MORE PERSONAL FREEDOM (DRANK, SMOKED AND DRESSED
IN UNAPPRIOPRIATE WAYS FOR THE TIMES) WERE KNOWN AS FLAPPERS
A.)FLAPPERS WERE PART OF THE SPEAKEASIES LIFE BECAUSE OF
PROHIBITION
- WOMEN WANTED EQUAL STATUS WITH MEN
CAUSES OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT OF THE 1920’S
1.)LESS CHILDREN
2.)DIVORCE INCREASED
3.) MORE WOMEN GO TO WORK
A.) PAID 50-60% LESS THEN MEN
4.) MORE GO TO COLLEGE
ORGANIZED CRIME
- LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY COULD BE MADE MAKING AND SELLING ALCHOL
1.) FLOW OF MONEY SHIFTED AWAY FROM
LEGAL BUSINESSES TO ILLEGAL
- GANGS AROSE AND COMPETED FOR THE ALCOHOL BUSINESS
1.) LED TO VIOLENCE AND MURDER
AL CAPONE MOST WELL KNOWN GANSTER FROM
CHICAGO
1. MADE 60 MILLION A YEAR
2. KILLED OFF ALL HIS COMPETITION (ST. VALENTINE
MASSACRE)
ELLIOT NESS- WITH THE TREASURY DEPT BRINGS
DONE CAPONE ON TAX EVASION
-BY THE MID 1920’S ONLY 19% SUPPORTED PROHIBITION
A) 1933 21ST AMENDMENT REPEALED
PROHIBITION