The Roaring Twenties
Pre-Test!
The Roaring Twenties
Question #1:
What famous baseball player started
as a Red Sox pitcher, then became a
Yankee slugger?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #2:
What was the accomplishment of
Charles Lindbergh, in his Spirit of St.
Louis?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #3:
What Los Angeles “town” was created
during the 1920’s as a location for
movie making?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #4:
What activity was conducted in
“marathons”, to see which pair would
be the last to drop?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #5:
What name was given to young
girls, who cut their hair, wore the
latest fashions, and tried to have a
tomboyish figure?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #6:
Can you name the Chicago gangster
who was known as “Scarface”? Clue:
he earned millions in the bootlegging
industry.
The Roaring Twenties
Question #7:
What is the serious-looking farmer
holding in a famous 1920’s picture
entitled, “American Gothic”?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #8:
What hate group regained strength
during the post World War I period, in
rural parts of the South?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #9:
How were Italian immigrants Sacco
and Vanzetti executed after a 5-year
trial for murder?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #10:
For how many days did
Shipwreck Kelly sit atop a pole in
downtown Atlantic City?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #1:
What famous baseball player started
as a Red Sox pitcher, then became a
Yankee slugger?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #2:
What was the accomplishment of
Charles Lindbergh, in his Spirit of St.
Louis?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #3:
What Los Angeles “town” was created
during the 1920’s as a location for
movie making?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #4:
What activity was conducted in
“marathons”, to see which pair would
be the last to drop?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #5:
What name was given to young
girls, who cut their hair, wore the
latest fashions, and tried to have a
tomboyish figure?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #6:
Can you name the Chicago gangster
who was known as “Scarface”? Clue:
he earned millions in the bootlegging
industry.
The Roaring Twenties
Question #7:
What is the serious-looking farmer
holding in a famous 1920’s picture
entitled, “American Gothic”?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #8:
What hate group regained strength
during the post World War I period, in
rural parts of the South?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #9:
How were Italian immigrants Sacco
and Vanzetti executed after a 5-year
trial for murder?
The Roaring Twenties
Question #10:
For how many days did
Shipwreck Kelly sit atop a pole in
downtown Atlantic City?
Why Do We Call It
The “Roaring” Twenties?
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Exciting sports adventures
Entertainment industry (films, music)
Changing culture (art, fashion)
Prohibition of alcohol
Risk-taking behavior
(example: investing in the stock market)
Roaring Twenties Lingo
“That’s nonsense!” = horsefeathers, applesauce,
baloney
“a superb person” = bee’s knees
“to murder” = bump off
“a boring person” = flat tire
“the jitters” = heebie jeebies
“eyeglasses” = cheaters
“wise” = hep
“attractive, appealing” = keen, hotsy totsy
Roaring Twenties Lingo
“elegant” = ritsy
“to leave hurriedly” = scram
“crazy or unusual” = screwy
“drunk” = spifficated
“a hired gunman” = torpedo
“to vomit” = upchuck
“spiffy”, “swanky”, “swell”
Warren Harding
Twenty-Ninth
President
1921-23
Calvin Coolidge
Thirtieth President
1923-29
American Gothic
Grant Wood
Some traditional values:
Strong family emphasis
Deep faith in God/Bible
Resistance to change
Some new values:
Strong individual emphasis
Growing faith in science
Excitement about change
"The Three Dancers”,
one of Picasso's key
works, was painted in
1925 at a crucial
moment in his
development, and
marks the beginning
of a new period of
emotional violence
and Expressionist
distortion.
In 1924, the
Johnson-Reed
Immigration
Act limited
Koreans
entering the
US to 100 per
year.
Women of the Klan- March on Washington, 1925
National Thrift Director
and One of His Banks
for Children : Dr. J.
Stanley Brown, of
Joliet, Ill., whose
picture appears above,
will, it is announced,
distribute fifteen million
of these hand grenade
banks to children.
These transformed
implements of war will
become powerful aids
to peace.
Here, the fear
of communism
is portrayed as
a fungus
growing on a
tree.
The WCTU suggested
that school teachers put
half of a calf’s brain in an
empty jar into which
alcohol should be poured.
As the color of the brain
turned from pink to gray,
pupils were to be warned
that a drink of alcohol
would do the same to
their brains.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcoholinfo/FunFacts/Prohibition.html
A major
prohibitionist group,
the Women's
Christian
Temperance Union
(WCTU) taught as
"scientific fact" that
the majority of beer
drinkers die from
dropsie. 11
Prohibition led to widespread
disrespect for law. New York City
alone had about thirty thousand
(yes, 30,000) speakeasies. And
even public leaders flaunted their
disregard for the law. They
included the Speaker of the
United States House of
Representatives, who owned and
operated an illegal still.
In Los Angeles, a jury that had heard a
bootlegging case was itself put on trial
after it drank the evidence. The jurors
argued in their defense that they had
simply been sampling the evidence to
determine whether or not it contained
alcohol, which they determined it did.
However, because they consumed the
evidence, the defendant charged with
bootlegging had to be acquitted.
There was one way to obtain alcoholic beverages
legally during the prohibition years: through a
physician's prescription, purchasing the liquor from a
pharmacy. Physicians could prescribe distilled
spirits--usually whiskey or brandy--on government
prescription forms.