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Wikipedia, SIRS Decades, Google Images

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Wikipedia, SIRS Decades

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"Edward Hopper, a leading American figurative painter, was distinguished for his subjects of solitary figures in urban settings and spare interiors. He is the poet of the everyday, of the prosaic, of the melancholy of the modern world and the encroachments upon the individual by modern industrialization. "

Edward Hopper painted "Nighthawk" in 1942 but in the 20s he was a poet, a still painted other workls that are notable today.

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"Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations"

As an iconic writer Ernest Hemingway became a household name with his works. He was probably the most well-known author of the 20th century.

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"Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century."

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a super star of the writing arts at the time. his works such as the Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and Tender is Night are considered to be American classics.

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

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"Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions."

the Duke was one of the greatest artist of all time. he composed, wrote, played and toured with his big band style jazz across the country making him the face of the jazz music scene.

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"was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for three teams (1914–1935). Known for his hitting brilliance, Ruth set career records in his time for home runs (714 since broken), slugging percentage (.690), runs batted in (RBI) (2,213 since broken), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164)."

Babe Ruth was the first real American sports hero. Everybody knew his name, everybody loved him. before, nobody really when to see baseball or anything. that all changed because of the Babe

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EQ3: How did popular culture, the arts, and literature change in the 1920s?

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EQ3: How did popular culture, the arts, and literature change in the 1920s?

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Al Capone with US Marshal Laubenheimer

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People never saw murder and crime at such great rates they believed that thier old calues of moral standing were being destroyed by the criminals of the nation.

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"was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933"

prohibition was an attempt to stop the 20s from breaking all moral standing that people had. Traditional values were being broken and people believed it was alcohols fault, so it was banned in 1920, only lasting till 1933 prohibition seemed to trigger some over most intense gang warfare history has ever seen, it basically brought the notorious gangster Al Capone to power in Chicago.

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"Chicago mobster Al Capone was responsible for over 300 murders, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, during the height of his Prohibition Era power."

the increase of crime in the 20s due to prohibition was considered to attack traditional society values because crime was never really a big deal until the 20s, people weren't used to guns firing all over Chicago. people were used to the quiet life and it scared them that it was all changing so fast.

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in the 20s, the KKK's members increase by the millions. they started targeting Jews, Roman Catholics and non-English speaking immigrants, in addition to African Americans. These violent acts were to "protect traditional values". They felt these minority groups were getting too powerful in the "white society" so in order to protect what they believed they tortured and killed people who they thought didn't belong in their society.

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"were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior."

Flappers were seen as traditional rule breakers. by listening to jazz, driving cars, smoking, drinking and dating flappers destroyed all traditional values that society was used to. this made people believe that their traditional values were under attack.

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*EQ2: Why did the modern culture of the 1920s cause some people to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?

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*EQ2: Why did the modern culture of the 1920s cause some people to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?