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Research entertainment and music in the 1920s. Who were famous performers during this time. Add images and videos (music) to support your research

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Research entertainment and music in the 1920s. Who were famous performers during this time. Add images and videos (music) to support your research

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Find a trusted source of information and list three major innovations that came out of the WWI experience. Find some images or videos to support your research. 

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Find a trusted source of information and list three major innovations that came out of the WWI experience. Find some images or videos to support your research. 

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Research women's rights during the 1920s. What were some major advancements in our country that time that liberated women and gave them more independence? Find some images or videos to support research. 

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Research women's rights during the 1920s. What were some major advancements in our country that time that liberated women and gave them more independence? Find some images or videos to support research. 

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What exactly does the amendment abolish? What was the result? What is a Speakeasy? Why do you think Speakeasies popped up across the country? Find images or videos to your research. 

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What exactly does the amendment abolish? What was the result? What is a Speakeasy? Why do you think Speakeasies popped up across the country? Find images or videos to your research. 

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What is organized crime? Who is Arnold Rothstein and what is he known for? Who are some prominent figures in organized crime in the 1920s? Find images or videos to support your research. 

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What is organized crime? Who is Arnold Rothstein and what is he known for? Who are some prominent figures in organized crime in the 1920s? Find images or videos to support your research. 

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Research 1920s automobiles. Explain how they were similar or different from our cars today. Why were cars considered "the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920s"? Add images or videos to support your research. 

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Research 1920s automobiles. Explain how they were similar or different from our cars today. Why were cars considered "the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920s"? Add images or videos to support your research. 

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Research 1920s fashion. What did men typically wear? What did women wear? What is flapper, and how did they influence fashion? Add images or videos to support your research. 

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Research 1920s fashion. What did men typically wear? What did women wear? What is flapper, and how did they influence fashion? Add images or videos to support your research. 

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With the accessibility of cars, radio, and phonographs, people now had access to music in their homes and at bars/clubs.

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Flappers: The 'New Woman'

Perhaps the most familiar symbol of the "Roaring Twenties" is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said "unladylike" things, in addition to being more sexually "free" than previous generations. In reality, most young women in the 1920s did none of these things (though many did adopt a fashionable flapper wardrobe), but even those women who were not flappers gained some unprecedented freedoms.

They could vote at last: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution had guaranteed that right in 1920, though it would be decades before Black women in the South could fully exercise their right to vote without Jim Crow segregation laws.

Millions of women worked in blue-collar jobs, as well as white-collar jobs (as stenographers, for example) and could afford to participate in the burgeoning consumer economy. The increased availability of birth-control devices such as the diaphragm made it possible for women to have fewer children.

In 1912, an estimated 16 percent of American households had electricity; by the mid-1920s, more than 60 percent did. And with this electrification came new machines and technologies like the washing machine, the freezer and the vacuum cleaner eliminated some of the drudgeries of household work.

Did you know? Because the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act did not make it illegal to drink alcohol, only to manufacture and sell it, many people stockpiled liquor before the ban went into effect. Rumor had it that the Yale Club in New York City had a 14-year supply of booze in its basement.

Fashion, Fads and Film Stars

During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend-and spend it they did, on movies, fashion and consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothing and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular, they bought radios.

The first commercial radio station in the United States, Pittsburgh's KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920. Two years later Warren G. Harding became the first president to address the nation by radio -and three years later there were more than 500 stations in the nation. By the end of the 1920s, there were radios in more than 12 million households.

People also swarmed to see Hollywood movies: Historians estimate that, by the end of the decades, three-quarters of the American population visited a movie theater every week, and actors like Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino and Tallulah Bankhead became household names.

But the most important consumer product of the 1920s was the automobile. Low prices (the Ford Model T cost just $260 in 1924) and generous credit made cars affordable luxuries at the beginning of the decade; by the end, they were practically necessities.

By 1929 there was one car on the road for every five Americans. Meanwhile, an economy of automobiles was born: Businesses like service stations and motels sprang up to meet drivers' needs-as did the burgeoning oil industry.

The Jazz Age

Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. (Some pundits called them "bedrooms on wheels.") What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom and the flea hop were popular dances of the era.

Jazz bands played at venues like the Savoy and the Cotton Club in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago; radio stations and phonograph records (100 million of which were sold in 1927 alone) carried their tunes to listeners across the nation. Some older people objected to jazz music's "vulgarity" and "depravity" (and the "moral disasters" it supposedly inspired), but many in the younger generation loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor.

The novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicled the hedonism and excitement of the Jazz Age-Fitzgerald once claimed that the 1920s were "the most expensive orgy in history"-while other writers, artists, musicians and designers ushered in a new era of experimental Art Deco and modernist creativity.

Prohibition Era

During the 1920s, some freedoms were expanded while others were curtailed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of "intoxicating liquors," and at 12 a.m. on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell any "intoxication beverages" with more than 0.5 percent alcohol.

This drove the liquor trade underground-now, instead of ordinary bars, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies, where liquor was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized crime figures such as Chicago gangster Al Capone. (Capone reportedly had 1,000 gunmen and half of Chicago's police force on his payroll.)

To many middle-class white Americans, Prohibition was a way to assert some control over the unruly immigrant masses who crowded the nation's cities. For instance, to the so-called "Drys," beer was known as "Kaiser brew." Drinking was a symbol of all they disliked about the modern city, and eliminating alcohol would, they believed, turn back the clock to an earlier and more comfortable time

Immigration and Racism in the 1920s

Prohibition was not the only source of social tension during the 1920s. An anti- Communist "Red Scare" in 1919 and 1920 encouraged a widespread nativist and anti-immigrant hysteria. This led to the passage of an extremely restrictive immigration law, the National Origins Act of 1924, which set immigration quotas that excluded some people (Eastern Europeans and Asians) in favor of others (Northern Europeans and people from Great Britain, for example).

Immigrants were hardly the only targets in this decade. The Great Migration of Black Americans from the rural South to Northern cities and the increasing visibility of Black culture-jazz and blues music, for example, and the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance-discomfited some white Americans. Millions of people, not just in the South but across the country, joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.

By the middle of the decade, the KKK had two million members, many of whom believed the Klan represented a return to all the "values" that the fast-paced, city-slicker Roaring Twenties were trampling. More specifically, the 1920s represented economic and political uplift for Black Americans that threatened the social hierarchy of Jim Crow oppression.

Early Civil Rights Activism

During this decade, Black Americans sought stable employment, better living conditions and political participation. Many who migrated to the North found jobs in the automobile, steel, shipbuilding and meatpacking industries. But with more work came more exploitation.

In 1925, civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph founded the first predominantly Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to draw attention to the discriminatory hiring practices and working conditions for Blacks. And as housing demands increased for Black people in the North, so did discriminatory housing practices that led to a rise of urban ghettos, where Black Americans-excluded from white neighborhoods-were relegated to inadequate, overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions.

Black Americans battled for political and civil rights throughout the Roaring Twenties and beyond. The NAACP launched investigations into Black disenfranchisement in the 1920 presidential election, as well as surges of white mob violence, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

The NAACP also pushed for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, a law to make lynching a federal crime, but it was defeated by a Senate filibuster in 1922. A political milestone for Black Americans finally occurred when Oscar De Priest, a Chicago Republican, became the first Black congressman since Reconstruction to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1928.

The Roaring Twenties ushered in several demographic shifts, or what one historian called a "cultural Civil War" between city-dwellers and small-town residents, Protestants and Catholics, Blacks and whites, "New Women" and advocates of old-fashioned family values.

But coming immediately after the hardships of World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic, the Roaring Twenties also gave many middle-class Americans an unprecedented taste of freedom, unbridled fun and upward economic mobility unsurpassed in U.S. history.

Sources

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably). Smithsonian Magazine.
The Roaring Twenties. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The Roaring 20s. PBS: American Experience.

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Roaring Twenties: Flappers, Prohibition & Jazz Age - HISTORY

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The Roaring Twenties were a Jazz Age burst of prosperity and freedom for flappers and others during the Prohibition era, until the economy crashed in 1929.

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Jazz music sparked new dance crazes like the Charleston.

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Louis Armstrong is a famous trumpeteer of the 1920s. He is now famous for the song "What a Wonderful World".

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Louis Armstrong: The Jiving Jazzman (1920s Spotlight)

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Read a summary of the life of the author of The Great Gatsby. List the major influences of his life and writing. Please find an image(s) of his wife Zelda. 

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Read a summary of the life of the author of The Great Gatsby. List the major influences of his life and writing. Please find an image(s) of his wife Zelda. 

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Men what we’re wealthy would wear a three-piece suit and men that were not as wealthy would wear thick clothing what was meant for working

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Women would long dresses they were made up of silk and was ment for glamour and movement and women that were less wealthy would wear handmade clothing and was repurposed from flour and feed sacks

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What is a Flapper -  Patrick Komosinski 

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What is a Flapper -  Patrick Komosinski 

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“Flappers” were the new generation of women/fashion who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz music

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The four-cylinder, twenty-horsepower Model T, first offered in October 1908, sold for $825.

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2 fun facts about the 1920 automobiles

-You could buy a brand new car for 290 dollars back then, 5,000 dollars in today’s money.

-The fasted car in 1920 was 119mph but, cars in the video would top off at around 60mph.

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Fords were all over the world in the 1920’s. In 1921 it was 50% of the cars on earth. The Ford Model was fords first car.

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Scott was in the middle class money wise, he didn’t grow up with money nor did he grow up poor unlike the characters in The Great Gatsby.

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The 18th Amendment banned the production, transportation and sale of alcohol but not its consumption.

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F. Scott was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His wife Zelda was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Prominent Gang Leaders of the 1920s Dylan J

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Prominent Gang Leaders of the 1920s Dylan J

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Some of the most notorious gang leaders in the 1920’s included Al Capone, also known as “Scarface” and George “Bugs” Moran who were gang leaders and rivals in Chicago. In New York, Charles “Lucky” Luciano and Arthur “Dutch” Schultz were prominent gangsters and bootleggers.

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Arnold Rothstein is a prominent character when it comes to crime in the 1920s. This is due to the organized crimes he committed, such as supposedly rigging the 1919 World Series. Arnold also committed many crimes such as bootlegging and gambling.

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Arnold Rothstein: Fixed the World Series

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During the 1920s Women gained the right to vote from the 19th amendment. They also gained more personal freedom for example, hair styles and the way they dress.

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Arnold Rothstein was a Jewish mob boss in New York

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Resulted in laws that banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol. From the prohibition of alcohol, there was more crimes and violence. 

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Zelda was a rebellious socialite known for her beauty and daring personality When she married F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920, she became a national celebrity. Scott famously dubbed her the "First American Flapper," and she served as the primary inspiration for many of his famous female characters, including Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

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They started the war using horses and finished leaving in the newly invented planes.

There was near impassable new tech like the machine guns, the use of trench warfare, gas/gas masks->”chemical warfare”.

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A speakeasy is a hidden, illegal bar that sold alcohol during the Prohibition era to avoid law enforcement.

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Zaid

The top three innovations that were made during WWI were

Tanks that are made to cross difficult terrain and providing mobile protection and firepower for troops like machine guns that could fire multiple bullets at the pull of a trigger being able to hold 450-600 rounds and poison gases caused panic and struggle to survive Germany’s newest chemical during that time was chlorine gas which irritated the lung tissue causing a choking effect that could possibly cause death.

https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/spotlight-first-usage-poison-gas

https://www.historyhit.com/the-most-important-inventions-and-innovations-of-world-war-one/

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the 1920s was a crucial year for women, the 19th amendment was born and allowed for women to have their right to vote. which led to a change in the way women speak out, dress and adress themselves.

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During the 1920’s women gained the right to vote through the 19th Amendment. They also gained more personal freedom for example, hair styles and the way they dress. They started their movement after WW1 after helping out during the war and believing they deserved the right to vote after how much they did.

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F. Scott was known as the king of the jazz age, but his personal life was filled with strange tragic habits. When he died at the age of 44 he died thinking he was failure which The Great Gatsby had gone out of print.

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Adrian-Some things that were made during WW1 that we use now includes: sanitary pads (Kotex), tissues (Kleenex), wristwatches, and stainless steel, as well as innovations like blood banks, daylight saving time, and plastic surgery

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Flappers in the 1920s influenced a new style of fashion for young women to ditch the modest and homemaking lifestyle and reveal their true, wild self with their new found freedom of this style.

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Organized crime consists of highly structured, continuous, and coordinated groups that engage in illegal activities for profit and power, often using violence, corruption, and intimidation to protect their operations.

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The 18th Amendment established prohibition by banning “intoxicated liquors” but people refused to comply and kept going out to bars and drink liquor.

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Their marriage was fueled by a mix of heavy drinking , intense creativity rivalry, and financial stress .

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Speakeasy was an illegal bar that was typically in an attic or basement (very secretive places). People would stay quiet to hide the location of the bars. A secret password or knock was required to enter the speakeasy.

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History Brief: Speakeasies (Roaring Twenties)

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When I think about women rights, I think about the just basic idea that gender shouldn’t determine opportunity nor freedom. They show this with the 19th amendment when women fought and marched for there rights for freedom