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The Roaring Twenties

The Improvement Of The Transportation Network of

America

Henry Ford and the assembly line Made cars more affordable

• Because of the wide spread use of cars, the landscape of America changed to favor them

• Over 10,000 miles of highway were built every year

Bill board for advertising were built all around the country

Red and Green traffic lights were built to control the traffic

New Ways of Life

The Car: Economic effects:

Tourism and travel Suburbs created Created many jobs

Social effects Suburbs-community located outside the

city The car allowed for the development of

the suburbs

The Power of Aviation• Because of WWI, major

improvements were made in aircraft

• By 1929, there were already three major air transport companies, American, United, and Trans-world Airlines

• In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic ocean in 33 hours(first solo non stop flight )

• He became a hero for Americans an was honored by a ticker-tape parade

New Ways of Life ERA-equal rights amendment: rights

shall not be denied based on genderNew rights for women

19th amendment gave women the right to vote

League of Women voters Women’s work: women had new

opportunities at home and at work Washing machine Electronic irons Vacuum cleaners

Women

Era of Changing Fashions: Fad: activity or fashion that is taken

up with great passion for a short amount of time

Flappers: young women that rebelled against traditional ways of thinking

Wore dresses short Hair bobbed Red lipstick

New Ways of LifeMass culture A National culture created by: cars,

music, radio, fads, and more Radio

Families would gather around after dinner

News and entertainment Movies

Charlie Chaplin Silent movies

How did they afford these new technologies?

New ways: Installment buying-buying goods on

credit, paying over time Buying on Margin: purchasing a stock

for just 10% down payment of the price of the stock

Ex: Stock costs $10, the investor would put down $1, down the road the person would have to pay the remaining balance

The Jazz Age

Jazz: combined West African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals and European harmonies Louis Armstrong

Writers: Fitzgerald Hemmingway

The Jazz Age

Harlem Renaissance Rebirth of African American culture

Large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem

Writers Langston Hughes: poet, expressing

in poetry the life of African Americans of the 1920’s

( other power point)

New Ways of Life

Ban on Alcohol: 18th amendment Bootleggers Speakeasies Rise of organize crime, mob and

gangsters Al Capone

(other power point)

Politics and Prosperity

Foreign affairs: Communism: economic system in

which all the wealth and property is owned by the community—this is being implemented by Lenin in Russia, but the government is controlling everything, not the community

Trouble below the Surface

Red ScareFear of communism spreading through America

Anarchists-people who opposed organized government

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Trouble below the Surface

Sacco and VanzettiTwo Italian immigrants in Massachusetts were arrested for murder

Admitted anarchistsLimited evidence against them Convicted and put to death

Trouble below the Surface

Limiting ImmigrationNativism---anti-foreignersEmergency Quota act -set up a quota system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter

Trouble below the Surface

Racism1915 rebirth of the KKKMarcus Garvey-Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Trouble below the Surface

Scopes TrialClash between old and new values

Fundamentalist Evolution v. ReligionJohn Scopes a Biology teach in Tennessee taught evolution and was arrested

Trial led by Clarence Darrow and prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan. He was found guilty(was fined) but later the state Supreme Court over threw the decision on a technicality

This argument still continues today.