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The Jazz singer is a 1927 American musical film. It was the first feature length motion picture with synchronized sound, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline of the silent film era.

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Al Jolson sings in the 1st-ever Talkie "The Jazz Singer" .mpg

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Broad casts jazz music from the 1920's and influences others to enjoy jazz music.

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Streaming Information | The 1920's Radio Network

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The 1920s Radio Network broadcasts on the 90.3 digital subchannel HD2. Because of the large amount of digital processing/buffering in the HD radio process, our program is delayed up to 90 seconds from what you hear over our 99.3 signal. You cannot hear our 1920s Network over 90.3 without an HD digital receiver.

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On May 20–21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew a monoplane, called the Spirit of St. Louis from New York City to Paris without stopping. He was the first one-man flight across the Atlantic.

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Charles Lindbergh - From New York to Paris 1927

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Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927 is seen as one of the most important events of the 20th century, but memories have dimmed and, in an age when jet airplanes routinely cross the Atlantic Ocean with hundreds of passengers, we have lost sight of its significance.

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Henry Ford was considered a traitor by his class because he wanted a motor car for the masses. His image of everyone having a motor car angered the wealthy because initially only wealthy people could own cars and they wanted to keep it that way.

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I think that his famous quote, " A man who builds a factory, builds a temple." means that if you create your own factory it sort of a huge deal since that factory is a huge place that brings in money. To wealthy people factories can be like temples to the poor.

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He was a gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion. He was part of the mafia and the reason he was so successful was due to the 18th amendment on the prohibition of alcohol. This amendment basically killed off all other competition and it almost created a sort of monopoly.

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Alcohol production, transportation, or sale was prohibited but, while the eighteenth amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages, it did not outlaw the possession or consumption of alcohol in the United States. This led to a huge underground business of alcohol.

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In 1925, a John Thomas Scopes was sent to trial after violating a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow. Displayed the fundamentalism prevalent in rural areas at the time

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The Scopes Monkey Trial Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review

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A super fast overview of this historic trial in 1925 that began to redefine how we teach science in our public school system

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A government act that cut down the percent of the amount of immigrants that could come to the U.S. from 3% down to 2%. It greatly limited the number of immigrants who could move to the U.S. And it reflected the isolationist and anti-foreign feeling in America as well as the departure from traditional American ideals. This caused a lowering of the immigrants coming into america.

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During the 1920's the KKK became more popular since the arrival of new immigrants. The red scare and the KKK used violence against the immigrants to advocate white supremacy and put fear into people in order to destroy labor unions.

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in 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory in Braintree, Mass. They were convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime due to the red scare and alsobecause of their anarchist and pro-union activities.

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1920
More Urban Than Rural

The United States Census reports, for first time, that more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas. However, "urban" is defined as any town with more than 2,500 people.

Jan 2, 1920
Palmer Raids

The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.

Jan 8, 1920
Steel Strike Ends

The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steelworkers.

Mar 19, 1920
Senate Rejects League

The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.

Apr 1920
Too Much Cotton

Cotton prices at New Orleans peak at 42 cents a pound, prompting Southern farmers to plant the largest crop in history. The resulting overproduction causes a collapse in prices, with cotton falling to less than 10 cents a pound by early 1921. Cotton farmers will toil in near-depression conditions throughout most of the 1920s and 30s.

Aug 1, 1920
Garvey Conference

Charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden.

Aug 18, 1920
Nineteenth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.

Nov 2, 1920
Harding Landslide

Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote; Democrat James Cox wins only a handful of states in the South. Socialist Eugene Debs garners more than 900,000 votes despite campaigning from prison, where he is incarcerated for violating the wartime Espionage Act by giving an antiwar speech in 1918.

May 19, 1921
Immigration Quota

Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, the act sharply curtails the quota for those areas while retaining a generous allowance for migrants from Northern and Western Europe.

May 31, 1921
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed.

Oct 1921
World Series

Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.

Sep 21, 1922
Tariffs Up

Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring Twenties, but it also worsens the crisis for struggling European economies like Germany's, helping to enable Adolf Hitler's rise to power there on a platform of economic grievance.

1923
German Reparations

Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation. One American dollar is now worth 7,000 German marks.

Aug 2, 1923
Harding Dies

President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.

May 5, 1925
Scopes Violates Ban

Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution, in violation of new state law banning the teaching of Darwin. The ensuing "Scopes Monkey Trial," pitting defense attorney Clarence Darrow against three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in a proxy debate of modernity versus fundamentalism, captivates the nation. Scopes is eventually found guilty.

Aug 8, 1925
Klansmen March

Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.

Aug 16, 1925
Charlie Chaplin in Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres before enthusiastic audiences.

Oct 1926
The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises.

Feb 5, 1927
The General

Buster Keaton's comedy classic The General, considered by many to be the greatest silent film ever made, premieres.

Apr 9, 1927
Mae West Obscene

Risqué entertainer Mae West is found guilty of obscenity by a New York court and sentenced to ten days in jail.

May 21, 1927
Spirit of St. Louis

Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight, landing his "Spirit of Saint Louis" in Paris 33 hours after departing from New York. Lindbergh becomes a national hero.

Aug 23, 1927
Immigrant Radicals

With all possible avenues of appeal now exhausted, Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.

Oct 6, 1927
The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era.

Aug 27, 1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact

Fifteen nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war. The unenforceable pact will be made a mockery through the rise of European fascist states in the 1930s.

Nov 6, 1928
Hoover President

Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.

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they were 3 major labor strikes after WWI and they were the Boston police strike, the Steel Mill strike, and the  Coal Miner's strike. In the Boston police strike in 1929 of September 9th, policemen protested against unfair wages and they destroyed an estimate of $350,000 dollars worth of property. Surprisingly there was only * dead and 71 hurt. The protest ended up being a huge failure since everybody who participated in the riot was fired and replaced by new policeman.

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Celebrated all things American while it attacked ideas and people that were foreign. For example the KKK was becoming more popular due to white supremacy and Americanism, which promoted the idea that foreign was bad. The second thing that people celebrated was the fourth of July and alcohol production.

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Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, 192821
"These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live."

He is sing that everyone is the same and y are they making things diffrent.

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THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE!

The moon belongs to everyone,
The best things in life are free;
The stars all shine for everyone,
They're shining for you and me.

The flowers in Spring,
The birdies that sing,
The sunbeams that shine,
They're yours--they're mine.

And Love can come to everyone,
The best things in life are free!

All of them are a group of people who care about the country.

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"The Best Things in Life are Free" (Jack Hylton, 1928)

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A show-stopping number from the 1925 Ray Henderson-Buddy DeSylva musical, "Good News". A Roaring Twenties tune which took on a new life during the Depression. Here Jack Hylton puts over the number in his inimitable style. THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE!

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Warren Harding
29th U.S. president; was involved in Teapot Dome scandal but died before being implicated

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Brief history of Laissez Faire economics through the Gilded Age in the United States. Created by Rachel Wittwer and Elma Tatarevic

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The decade of 1920s marked huge advances in the music industry. The phonograph record became the primary method of disseminating music, surpassing sales of sheet music and piano rolls. The music industry, ever keen to discover new ways of making profits, realized that record, sheet music and piano roll sales could all be tied together. The “song plugger” was born: a person who worked to make sure his company’s tunes would be performed by dance bands or by singers, live and on records, ever hopeful of a “hit.” Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, and willy The Lion Smith were 3 out of 10 most famous jazz musicians that ever lived.

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Yes, We Have No Bananas - Bob Wilson and his Varsity Rhythm Boys

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In the aftermath of World War I and the social changes of the Progressive Era, the pro-business Harding advocated a “return to normalcy.” He conducted a front-porch campaign from his home in Marion, and thousands of people travelled there to hear him speak. (Due to the high volume of visitors, Harding’s front lawn had to be replaced with gravel).

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Hoover Wanted to make American a place where everyone is happy and perfect.  But he was destroying the economy by working the banks and business. Same with  Roosevelt  he was in control of all business and banks thinking he could make things easy but he made the economy drop as well.

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How did Babe Ruth affect the 1920s?
Babe Ruth is most recognized for his many record breaking accomplishments and for being a role model for any sport fanatic in the 1920s. He was known as the greatest player of the century. In 1919, he played for the Boston Red Sox and during that time set a record for the most scoreless innings in the World Series. Also during that time with the Red Sox, he hit 29 home runs, which was a new record. In 1920, he went and played with the New York Yankees. In his career, he set many records some of which were hitting 60 home runs in a year. That record stood unbroken for at least 34 years.

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The Chart shows the amount of immigrants that came to the us during this time and how it would be decreasing per year. Every year it would be decreasing and less immigration would be in the us while years go on.

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In This political cartoons it's showing how the employers are ting to get rid of all the workers. He bosses are the ones who tell the employees to get all workers out and away.

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Flappers 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 brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

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A phrase made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway in his first published novel The Sun Also Rises. Often it is used to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe, some after military service in the First World War. Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" include authors and poets F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, and John Dos Passos. It also refers to the time period from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. More generally, the term is used for the generation of young people coming of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I

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The Harlem Renaissance was considered to be a rebirth of African-American arts. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, many francophone black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have spanned from about 1918 until the mid-1930s.

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The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's organization formed in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which had been formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight for women's suffrage. The National Woman's Party broke from the much larger National American Woman Suffrage Association, which was focused on attempting to gain women's suffrage at the state level. The National Woman's Party prioritized the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage throughout the United States.

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In the 1920's federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals. If you were an alien you would be sent to Ellis island and deported back to your home country.

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Uploaded by Scott Elliott on 2016-01-22.

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Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships (primarily marriage). The normalization of contraception and the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed.