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this song is about a man who wants to be loved before he is taken to jail. I think that this song says that the 1920's were a very romanticized period of time. People were no longer as restricted by societal norms and were more ready to fall fall in love. Flings were a thing of the Roaring Twenties, and many present day literature depict it with many romantic details and things of that sort. I think that after the war, the youth were more reckless.

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Vernon Dalhart  -The Prisoner's Song (1925)

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Vernon Dalhart (April 6,1883 - Sept.14,1948) was a popular United States singer and songwriter of the early decades of the 20th century. He is a major influence in the field of Country Music. Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter in Marion County, Jefferson, Texas.

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"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations." - J. Paul Getty. to me this explains the years of the 1920's. It was a time where people lived fast, so fast that they didn't stop to think of what the future would be like. Sure, the nation was prosper but in ten years, the shaky foundations that it had been resting upon snapped. When the Great Depression begun in late 1929, few people even understood the magnitude of the oncoming calamity.

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Carey Orr, "Bullet Proof," April 29, 1926. It shows the law as a small man who shoots justice at a big knight of organized crime. The puff of smoke - justice - not seem like it'd have a big effect on the knight who is wearing armor made of money, money that is made from organized crime and bootlegging. The Prohibition, though it did prohibit the production and sale of alcohol, did not curb the desire for it. Many people turn to illegal activities to satisfy that desire for it.

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This graph illustrates the annual of the economy and the stock market. When you go to the 1930's you can see that it had a sharp plunge, the Great Depression. In the 1920's section you can see that even though the stock market was doing relatively well, the economy itself was not boding well. When the depression hit, the stock market and economy suffered badly.

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When Harding won the presidency in 1920, he had a distinct political agenda in his mind. That political agenda involved the economy. Now, because he wanted a return to "normalcy," or conservatism, conservative beliefs took the spotlight. They believed that the government's job was to make business prosper and that it should stay out of the way of business. In result, laws that regulated big corporations were rarely passed.

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Basic foundations and ideas of capitalism in the Industrial Era.

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Harlem was a black enclave in New York, an area that was culturally different from other areas, that would soon be a sweet spot for cultural empowerment.. After WWI, it began to grow significantly in population. It put forth African American literature, music, and art. Talented African Americans were drawn to the district. Some great contributors to the Renaissance were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay, all of which were famous for their works of literature.

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Jazz emerged as a leading music that many began listening to. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Scott Joplin were some leading musicians who played jazz music. This music cab be used to symbolize the Great Migration during the First World War. Because many African Americans were familiar with jazz, when they migrated to the North, they brought the music with them.

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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band & Louis Armstrong "Just Gone" (1923) RARE VISUALS Gennett 5133

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"Just Gone" played by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (with Louis Armstrong) on Gennett 5133. The song's composers are Oliver and upright bass player Bill Johnson (who seems to be on banjo for this session since such a bass at this time was not used in recording studios, the technology unable to handle it--the recording needle would jump).

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The National Women's Party, led by Alice Paul, was a confrontational party that was part of the women's suffrage movement. They picketed the White house in July 1916 went on hunger strikes when they were arrested for it. They fought for women's political, social, and economic equality, as well as the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Motion pictures played an important role in the lives of Americans by providing a direct source of entertainment that was more popular than the radio or sports. This also provided a source of wealth and success since millions of people were buying tickets weekly. The Jazz Singer was a significant film due to the fact that its premier resulted in the loss of popularity of silent movies, and it was the first movie that had sound.

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The first commercial radio broadcast described the results of the presidential race where Warren G. Harding would win in 1920. It would be the first announcement of the results before the readings from the newspaper the next day. The direct effects of the growth of radio broadcasting improved the economy by creating new jobs to run the broadcasts and it also became a source of entertainment during times of leisure. Businesses and politicians also flourished by taking advantage of advertising opportunities. Additionally, American culture became closer as different areas of the nation became more known, and many people listened to the same broadcasts and could relate to one another along with music.

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Nov 2, 1920: First Commercial Radio Broadcast in the U.S.

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America became fascinated with the work of Lindbergh mainly because he was the first pilot to fly a plane successfully from New York to Paris on the Spirit of  St. Louis in only 39 hours and 39 minutes. He became a world hero for this feat and an overall American hero. Most importantly, the distance and time it took to travel around the world shrunk considerably, and they would later be used in WWII as weapons of destruction.

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History Brief: Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis

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This is a poster form Warren G. Harding's campaign for president in the year 1920. Harding was nominated as the presidential nominee by the Republican party. During his campaign , he spoke of America's return to "Normalcy." By this he meant that America was ready to revert to a more conservative nation after the Great War's end in 1918. He envisioned a people that were less internationalist. Many people were tired of the Progressive ideals that had been heavily instilled during the Wilson presidency that lasted eight years. Harding was able to foster that wish for conservatism by using trickle down economics and higher tariffs.

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Henry Ford influenced American production by adopting the assembly line that established faster production of his cars, ultimately being able to produce a single car in 10 seconds. He was also known for accepting immigrants, criminals, and handicapped workers since they could be part of his customers, and he also established a higher pay in return for good behavior and attitudes. However, due to this change, he was seen as a "traitor" by wealthy people because of his attempts to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. His Ford Model T car became the majority model that Americans purchased during the time although they could be dangerous to produce.

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When Coolidge said, "A man who builds a factory, builds a temple," he meant that a business man is able to construct a place where men will flock to and work, or "worship" the job. The business man may become the most influential figure in the worker's life, and they will have more power over their organizations. I predict that the relationship between business and government in the 20's will continue to grow and become entwined with one another. However, I also believe that business will eventually become stronger than the government itself, and this could prove to be an issue in the future if there is no regulation of businesses.

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Al Capone, a poor immigrant, made his fortune by illegally selling alcohol  and developing prostitution and gambling in his Chicago headquarters during the time of Prohibition. He organized crime and gangs, resulting in the death of hundreds of gangsters until he was finally arrested for income tax evasion in 1931 for six-and-a-half years. He ultimately became the most infamous gangster during the 1920s, and is evidently known for his attacks, such as the St. Valentines Day Massacre in 1929. His success is greatly due to the fact that officials accepted bribes and prohibition was not enforced effectively.

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The prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol was incorporated into law by the 18th Amendment in 1919 and was then enforced by the Volstead Act of 1919. At first, the Amendment was greatly supported and accepted by churches and women since it was widely believed to encourage families to become closer, but eventually, Prohibition resulted in an increase in gang activity in the 1920s as seen by the actions and success of Al Capone. The creation of speakeasies was also an impact of the Amendment, and it enabled the middle class to drink liquor as well as women, and it also led to the decrease in saloons and immigrant drinking throughout the nation.

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Babe Ruth was a famous baseball player who attracted thousands of people when he played. The Yankee Stadium was even called ¨the house that Ruth built.¨ Sports being so incredibly popular was a by product of the advertising boom that came in the 1920´s. The attention in garnered was also heightened by the increasing number of people would listen to games by way of radio.

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The Scopes Trial consisted of the Fundamentalists who believed in the Bible and Christianity against John Scopes who was arrested for teaching his high school biology class about the theory of evolution, and Fundamentalists aimed towards removing the topic on evolution from American schools. He was ultimately found guilty against prosecutor William Jennings Bryan despite efforts by his defendants Clarence Darrow and the American Civil Liberties Union and was fined for $100. This shows how American society was not ready for drastic change, and they refused to give up traditional values such as religion. Bryan also made a fool of himself as he could not directly answer the questions regarding the stories in the Bible, and Fundamentalists' popularity was damaged.

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The Flapper style emerged as a way for women to express their freedom. It was characterized by shorter, sleeveless, dresses. They were largely influenced by the book, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They strived to break tradition, whether that was through their way of dressing, dancing, or behavior

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The National Origins Act of 1924 drastically changed America's position on immigration, leading to a decrease in the percentage of immigrants who could move into the U.S until Congress removed the act in 1965. Until then, immigration was kept to the bare minimum of 152,000 per year, and the American landscape had an increase in natural citizens as immigrants left or could not enter the nation, resulting in more nativist sentiments.

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The KKK first reappeared in the South but soon spread to the Southwest and Midwest with the publication of the movie Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith that was also based on a book by Thomas Dixon that spurred old nativist sentiments. Their values in the 1920s included hostility towards immigrants, Catholics, Jews, communists, and other groups of people that participated in wrongdoings and went against the laws of the nation. However, they were greatly known for their racism in the lynchings of African Americans and their pro-WASP values, which stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, similar to those of the "Know-Nothing" part.

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The previous two presidents before Herbert Hoover were Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. All three of them were Republicans who had strong suits in business. Harding wanted a "return to normalcy," which meant a nativism and isolationism. Coolidge and his economic policies were generally approved of but would soon become unpopular. Hoovers policies become unpopular soon after he was elected president because of the Great Depression.

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The significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti case was that there seemed to be prejudice against the Italian pair due to their position as anarchists and atheists who avoided going to war after the WWI draft. The evidence did not directly convict them of murdering two people in a robbery, yet Judge Thayer sentenced both of them to death by electric chair in 1927. This resulted in protests by multiple well-known people such as Albert Einstein and Italian-Americans, and riots also occurred throughout the world, including Japan and Paris.

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The Palmer Raids were attempts to remove radical individuals through deportation in order to protect the U.S from communism and anarchists and it was led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Lost Generation was a term coined by Gertrude Stein. They were a generation of writers that emerged after the Great War and became very disillusioned with their experiences in it as well as the support the government was providing them, hence the "lost" in the moniker. They looked down upon the prohibition and the Victorian-minded middle class. They sought to break the traditions of society.

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This strike in February 1919 was caused by shipyard workers in the port city of Seattle, Washington. In the weeks leading up to the strike, workers demanded higher wages due to the sudden increase in prices that were caused by the war. The General Strike Committee were victorious in creating a new and effective form of strike although the American Federation of Labor had asked them to peacefully cease the strike to prevent serious damages to the labor. Two other strikes that occurred during this period were the Brotherhood of Locomotive Systems Strike in 1918 and the United Mine Workers of America Strike in 1919.

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H.A.L.T, memory device for 1920's economics

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H.A.L.T, memory device for 1920's economics

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H - High tariffs
A - Anti Union
L - Laissez Faire
T - Trickle down Policies

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His theories were mistakenly interpreted by Americans that sexual suppression caused emotional issues. In the minds of many younger Americans, they had to have sexual fulfillment in order to be healthy and happy. As a result, a new style of promiscuity emerged in which women and men engaged in drinking and dancing in ways that, to older generations, was considered erotic. At the same time, Margaret Sanger was advocating for  birth control. What these two people caused in society, in a way, showed the changes that Americans were undergoing. They both promoted a new freedom and individuality.

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The idea of Americanism was the overwhelming emotion of patriotism that would eventually consume American society after WWI. One example is the rise of the KKK who expressed nativism and aimed toward keeping white superiority in the U.S. A second example is through the war fever that increased a sense of fighting for the American nation. Americanism can also be seen through the Red Scare after WWI that increased nativist sentiments and brought a desire for Americanization.