 CORE OBJECTIVE: Explain the social, political, and economic impacts on the United States after World War I.
 Objective 5.1: How did American society change after the war in terms of women’s roles and the demographics of cities?
 Objective 5.2: How did mass media, jazz, and literature affect American life in the 1920’s?
 Objective 5.3: Explain the cultural conflicts during the 1920’s relating to prohibition, religion, and racial tensions.
 Objective 5.4: What events fueled the Red Scare in the early 1920’s?
 Objective 5.5: How did Republican Presidential policies shape the economics of the decade?
 Objective 5.6: How did industrial growth affect the economy of the 1920’s?
 THEME:

America: Pathways to the Present
Chapter 20: Postwar Social Change (1920–1929)
Section 1: Society in the 1920s
Section 2: Mass Media and the Jazz Age
Section 3: Cultural Conflicts

 George Washington; Federalist (1788)
 John Adams; Federalist (1796)
 Thomas Jefferson (1800)
 James Madison (1808)
 James Monroe (1816)
 John Quincy Adams (1824)
 Andrew Jackson; Democrat (1828)
 Martin Van Buren; Democrat (1836)
 William Henry Harrison; Whig (1840)
 John Tyler; Whig (1841)
 James K. Polk; Democrat (1844)
 Zachary Taylor; Whig (1848)
 Millard Fillmore; Whig (1850)
 Franklin Pierce; Democrat (1852)
 James Buchanan; Democrat (1856)
 Abraham Lincoln; Republican (1860)
 Andrew Johnson; Democrat (1865)
 Ulysses S. Grant; Republican (1868)
 Rutherford B. Hayes; Republican (1876)
 James Garfield; Republican (1880)
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 Grover Cleveland; Democrat (1884)
 Benjamin Harrison; Republican (1888)
 Grover Cleveland; Democrat (1892)
 William McKinley; Republican (1896)
 Theodore Roosevelt; Republican (1901)
 William Howard Taft; Republican (1908)
 Woodrow Wilson; Democrat (1912)
 Warren G. Harding; Republican (1920)
 Calvin Coolidge; Republican (1923)
 Herbert Hoover; Republican (1928)

American society changes in many ways following World War I as the
Jazz Age introduces new styles, taste, and manners. Conflict arose between Americans ready to adopt change and those who resisted.

 Flappers were a "new breed" of young fun-loving women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, smoking, driving automobiles
 Flappers challenged conventions of dress, hairstyle, behavior & symbolized a revolution in 1920’s manners.
 Many Americans disapproved of flappers’ free manners as well as the departure from traditional morals that they represented.
 Many in the cities were abandoning traditional values, rural populations wanted to keep these values.

 While cities continued to grow, many Americans moved from cities to suburbs due to transportation improvements. (Demographic shift)
 Improvements in transportation made travel between the cities and suburbs increasingly easy.
 This shift in population was one example of changing demographics, or statistics that describe a group of people, during the 1920s.

 Charles Lindbergh
 As the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris , aviator
Charles Lindbergh was hailed as an American hero and a champion of traditional values.
 Amelia Earhart
 Amelia Earhart set records as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from
Hawaii to California.
 She and her navigator mysteriously disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937.

Golden Age Of Sports
Increase In Popularity
 More people begin to follow the events due to the increase in media outlets .
 Radio , cheap tickets to games and movies, cheap newspapers .
 More spending money and leisure time allow more people to attend events.
 New stadiums built to attract more fans.
 Would fill with the largest crowds at a sporting event since the fall of Rome.

Golden Age Of Sports
Emergence Of The Superstar
 Defined.
 Key sports figures who dominated their sports and captured the public attention.

Golden Age Of Sports
 The “Manassa Mauler,” dominated the Twenties with knockouts.
 World Heavyweight
Champ from 1919 –
1926
 He lost his title to Gene
Tunney in 1926 and lost the rematch due to the famous “long count”
 His aggressive style and knockout power made him popular


and the largest number of Hall of Famers came from this era, none were bigger than Ruth.
 Known as the “ Sultan of Swat ,” is perhaps the most well-known sports figure in any sport ever.

a pitcher, but had a talent for hitting home runs .
 Soon moved to the outfield so that he could play everyday.
 Would be traded to the Yankees in
1920 by Red Sox owner Harry
Frizzee in order to fund a
Broadway play (which failed in a week).
 Ruth would go on to lead the
Yankees to seven American
League pennants and 4 World
Series championships.
 The “ Curse of the Bambino” would plague the Red Sox from
1919 until their first World Series win in 2004.

Why were some Americans opposed to flappers?
(A)Flappers opposed the Nineteenth Amendment.
(B) Flappers challenged traditional values.
(C) Americans preferred sports heroes.
(D)Americans thought that flappers encouraged immigration.
Which of the following was a migration pattern in the 1920s?
(A)From cities to suburbs
(B) From suburbs to cities
(C) From suburbs to rural areas
(D)From the United States to Canada and Mexico

Why were some Americans opposed to flappers?
(A)Flappers opposed the Nineteenth Amendment.
(B) Flappers challenged traditional values.
(C) Americans preferred sports heroes.
(D)Americans thought that flappers encouraged immigration.
Which of the following was a migration pattern in the 1920s?
(A)From cities to suburbs
(B) From suburbs to cities
(C) From suburbs to rural areas
(D)From the United States to Canada and Mexico