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"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music left in them."

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"life is for the living, death is for the dead, let life be like music and death a note unsaid."

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"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

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"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forgot to worry."

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He also became an icon in the 1920's. He sat many attendance and financial records including the first million dollar gate. Dempsey was also the worlds heavyweight champion.

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life ans I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

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"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."

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"Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless"

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"The most powerful advertisements of all time.... He would be a national advertiser today."

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"The Scopes trial, from the start, has been carried on in a manner exactly fitted to the anti-evolution law and the simian imbecility under it. There hasn't been the slightest pretense to decorum."

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"Prohibition has caused nothing but trouble."

-Al Capone

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"They are coming in such numbers and we are unable adequately to take care of them…It simply amounts to unrestricted and indiscriminate dumping into this country of people of every character and description…If there were in existence a ship that could hold three million human beings, then three million Jews of Poland would board to escape to America."
-Congressional hearing, 1920

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Black Nationalism was African Americans pride in their culture. Some supporters wanted to be separated from the whites society, including its leader Marcus Garvey. Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association which eventually failed. However, he did still manage to influence Americans society by putting pride into African Americans.

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Jazz, Blues and Theater: Louis Armstrong

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Jazz, Blues and Theater: Louis Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong created Jazz for everyone to listen to. His music allowed African Americans and whites to listen to the same music.

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He was a writer that influenced the Harlem Renaissance. His writings celebrated the life of African Americans, which in return helped educate America.

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The Harlem Renaissance was the time when jazz started to be introduced and when African Americans started to be accepted in to the "white mans" society. This was a huge step into a brighter future of a more diverse society.

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This was when about 5 million southern African Americans moved to the north. During the time of the 1920's about 800,000 African American southerners moved to the north, mostly to the cities.

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He changed the way America viewed professional sports because of him people tuned in to find out scores and watched all sports. He was also glorified and was a well known name in the 1920's.

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Movies were created to in black and white to give Americans something to go out and do in their free time for a low price. Also the radio conducted shows to entertain families in the comfort of their own home. Radio shows talked about sports, new from around the county and also music.

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This author wrote a fantastic book the was based upon the life in the 1920's. His book talks about the life involving great wealth but also showing the poverty side of the 1920's.

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Her art work was new and different from other art work in the 1920's. She allowed people to expand their ways of thinking and creating different styles of art work. O'Keefe was famous for her self portraits and her paintings of bones and and animal skulls in the desert.

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Many people used credit to purchase things they wanted with money they did not have. Although many felt that credit helped them it ended in the Great Depression and the end of that era.

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Since products can now be mass produced people can buy items at cheaper prices and at a much faster rate. This resulted in more investments in stocks and a rapidly growing economy.

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This allowed a sense of consumerism in America. It also allowed for other things to rise such as consumers good. The affect of mass advertising can still be seen around American today with all of the signs and billboards put up.

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Radios allowed everyone to feel a sense of unification within American and nationalism. It allowed Americans to feel connected by listening to all the same programs.

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Model T and Other Automobiles, Social Impact

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Model T and Other Automobiles, Social Impact

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The mass production of automobiles allowed families to go on longer journeys. It also allowed teenagers to get away with their dates changing relationships in a good way.

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John T. Scopes was brought to trial because there was a law that stated you could not teach the theories of evolution. Many Americans were scared that this would bring up the true values of Gods beliefs. On the same note, fundamentalism was a religious the God created nature and not evolution.

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In the 1920's there were a lot of gangsters, homicides and rising violence. All of this was the result of the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the making, selling, drinking and owning of any and all alcohol beverages. Since this was put into action it created a lot of businesses that made and sold alcohol after hours.

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During the 1920's women were given a chance to be something more than just housewives. Women started to become known as Flappers, which are women who wore shorter ans sexier clothes and smoked and drank in public. Also during this time the amount of women that worked grew 25% along with the divorce rates doubling.

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During the 1920's many Americans feared Germans which quickly expanded to all foreign countries. Americans soon started to believe in Nativism, which was the belief that one's native land must be protected against immigrants

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The KKK believed their country was in danger and under attack. So they targeted anyone who was un-American. This included people who were Catholic, Jewish, African America, or immigrants. The KKK truly believed that they were fighting for Americanism.

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How did African Americans influence American society in the 1920's?

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

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How did new industries and consumers society contribute to the Roaring Twenties?

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