CHAPTER
16-3
THE ROARING 1920S
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16-3 Table of Contents
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New directions in Society
Prohibition
Women in the 1920’s
Salaries
Individual Contributions
Cultural Achievements
Education
New direction in society
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Rapid changes caused by their progress of
technology of the 1920s caused serious
problems for society.
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Examples
1. Over 40,000 people in the USA died from
auto accidents in 1928 and 1929.
2. Cities lost their "attractiveness" to
accommodate automobiles.
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Question:
• What made automobiles so dangerous in the
1920’s?
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Lacked Traffic Signals
No Required Drivers License
Seatbelts weren’t always mandatory
All of the Above
A&B
B&C
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Correct, here is why. CONTINUE
• In the 1920s, not every state even required
drivers to get a license
• Car manufacturers waited until the '40s to begin
adding seat belts, and no law anywhere required
wearing them until 1970.
• When people first began driving, they lacked a
complete system that drivers and pedestrians
today have come to regard as second nature:
traffic signals.
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Incorrect, here is why. Try Again
• All of the answers were correct because none of
the modern rules of driving applied to the 1920s.
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Examples cont.
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3. "Canned entertainment" such as radio
programs discouraged Americans from
creating their own amendments.
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Prohibition
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18th amendment (1918)
prohibited the production,
delivery, and selling of alcohol.
***gangsters took advantage of
prohibition by consolidating the
illegal liquor industry
Al Capone
Dutch Shultz
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Al Capone
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was an American
gangster who led a
Prohibition-era crime
syndicate.
He made donations to
various charitable
endeavors using the
money he made from his
activities, and was
viewed by many to be a
"modern-day Robin
Hood".
Dutch Shultz
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Dutch Shultz
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was a New York City-area
German-Jewish American
mobster of the 1920s and 1930s
Made his fortune in organized
crime-related activities such as
bootlegging alcohol and the
numbers racket.
Al Capone
Prohibition
Continue to Exit
questions
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Prohibition cont.
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Alcohol consumption decreased but illegal
drinking of alcohol created an illegitimate
billion dollar industry
Many citizens publicly supported prohibition
but drank alcohol in private
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Prohibition cont.
 Many politicians who favored prohibition were
elected to offices in the 1920s including president
Herbert "dry" Hoover.
 Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st
Amendment.
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QUESTION: WHO WAS
THE AMERICAN
GANGSTER LEADER IN
THE 1920S?
A. DUTCH SHULTZ
B. AL CAPONE
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Great job, Al Capone was
a notorious leader who
would make today’s
“Gangsta’s” very scared.
CONTINUE
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He was a gangster, but
not the leader. TRY
AGAIN.
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EXIT QUESTIONS:
LOG ON TO SOCRATIVE.
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Women in the 1920’s
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*Women expressed a desire for more
personal freedom.
Flappers’ wanted the same freedoms that
men enjoyed such as smoking cigarettes,
drinking liquor, and working outside of the
home.
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Women in the 1920’s Cont.
 American family life changed as well:
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Better knowledge on family planning,
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Divorce rates increased,
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increase of women working outside of the
home.
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1920’s Women Cont.
In the workplace, many women worked as..
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Salesclerks,
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Secretaries,
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Telephone Operators
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Salaries
Women usually earned 50-60% of men’s
salaries
•(Was this fair??)
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Salaries
• If A man during the 1920’s made 200 dollars a
week at his job, how much money on average
was a women making compared to the man?
• A. $50-60
• B. $150-160
• C.$100-120
• D.$ 180-200
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CORRECT, CONTINUE
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WRONG, try looking back at the
Salaries slide.
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Individual Contributions
Amelia Earhart:
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-First woman to complete a solo flight
across the Atlantic Ocean.
Bessie Smith/Billie Holiday:
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-Jazz and Blues musicians.
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Individual Contributions cont.
Dorothy Thompson
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-Famous Journalist.
Mary Mcleod Bethune
 -Founded National Council of Negro Women
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Life becomes easier!
Women’s lives at home became easier.
Example
Refrigerators
Vacuum
Cleaners
Canned Food
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LOG ON TO SOCRATIVE
Log on to Socrative and answer the review questions.
Use the Ipads to look up a famous women from
the 1920’s and write what she did and another
interesting fact about her?
Post answers in Socrative.
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Cultural Achievements
• Literature, Architecture, Music, Painting,
Movies, Radio all flourished during the 1920’s
• Writers: Read More HERE
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Willa Cather,
Robert Frost,
Carl Sandburgh,
Hemmingway,
T.S. Elliot.
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Postwar Disillusionment
• Refers to
disappointment with
the way things were
after WWI writers such
as Sinclair Lewis and
H.L. Mencken captured
this spirit in their
writings.
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Artists
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Reginald Marsh
Thomas Benton
George Bellows
Ed Hopper
• Read More HERE
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Movies
• 1927, “Talking” movies introduced.
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Culture Question:
• Which of the sub-genre’s of the 1920’s Culture
would you most likely fit if you lived in the
1920’s?
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Movies
Writer
Artist
Music
• Log onto Socrative to submit your poll answer!
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Think about it!
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Education
• Taxes and private donations improved
schools.
• School buses allowed for central schools
and eliminated the “One Room”
schoolhouse.
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DEWEY
• Emphasized Learning through direct experience
and experiment.
• Greater emphasis was placed on the sciences.
• Highly Respected
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1925: Scopes Trial
• John T. Scopes, teacher, taught evolution.
• Was willing to be arrested for this action.
• ACLU defended Scopes.
• Scopes lost the trial.
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1925: Scopes Trial Video
• Scopes Trial Video
• Was it fair to use Scopes as a guinea pig?
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1925: Scopes Trial Video Question
• Was it fair to use Scopes as a guinea pig?
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Harlem Renaissance
• Refers to a new “Spirit”, where African
Americans exhibited pride and protest.
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Harlem Renaissance
• Many talented African Americans came from
Harlem & New York City.
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Charles Gilpin,
Richard Harrison,
E. Frazier,
Countee Cullen,
Jessie Fauset,
Marcus Garvey.
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Harlem Renaissance Music
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Harlem Renaissance Music
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Harlem Renaissance Music
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Harlem Renaissance Music
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Harlem Renaissance Music
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Harlem Renaissance Music
Duke Ellington
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Harlem Renaissance Music
Langston
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The End
• Questions?
• Chapter 16-3 Quiz
• Chapter 16 Notebook due
• Chapter 16 Test
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