The Roaring Twenties-Melissa Hacker by Melissa Hacker

EQ1: Why did the modern culture of the 1920s cause some people to think that traditional society and morality was under attack

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The KKK, Nativisim, and Immigration

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The Ku Klux Klan returned yet again as their opposition towards immigrants and African Americans grew, the klan growing bigger in recruitments. Anyone “un-American” was targeted as they felt that the American tradition was threatened and would be changed forever by an increasing amount of these “non-American” people. They’d hang anyone who threatened their way of life, the people that seemed inferior to them. These were based on personal opinions and religious beliefs of white American who did not like “foreigners” invading their country. They believed in nativism, or that one’s native country must be protected from immigrants. While immigration was encourage, the clan felt their nativisim was being threatened by immigrants.

The clan marches through the nation's captiol

Women in the 1920s

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These new ideas influenced people to think different from traditional ideas, many being women. When women gained the right to vote, they believed that they could do what they want and so their attitude changed towards traditional gender roles. Women would now work more often, attend college, and even not engage in marriage, which many men found threatening as they felt women didn’t know their place.

A woman in the 1920s

The Sacco-Vanzetti case

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The Sacco-Vanzetti showed how America was against immigrants coming into the country. Two men had robbed and murder two employees at a shoe factory. Police arrested two Italian immigrants who had different ideals than Americans such as they didn’t believe in any form of government. They were sentenced to death, despite it being questionable if they really committed the crime. This “new mortality” was taking over the nation with immigrants being unrestricted in America.

Both men pictured

Fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial

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Traditional ideals were challenged yet again in the Scopes Trial when John T. Scopes taught evolution instead of religion. Many people believe in Fundamentalism or a Christianity movement. The teaching of evolution complete went against the traditional views of America, which the majority were christian.

Scopes during his court trial

EQ2: How did new industries and consumer society contribute to the Roaring Twenties?

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Mass Production

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Mass production was large-scaled manufacturing done with machinery that increased supply and reduced cost. This would cause people to buy more as the prices are so cheap, increasing the economy in the 1920s.

A mass production of airplanes

Mass Advertising

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Mass advertising was pleasing to the American public, drawing them into buy the certain product or service. By more people buying goods, the industries would have an increase in income. leading to an economical growth in the United States in the 1920s.

A Coca-Cola ad in the 20s

Consumer goods and disposable income

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By increasing a worker’s income and shortening work days, unions decreased and workers wished to remain loyal to their company. In increasing the disposable income. many people had extra money where they could buy goods that they wanted. New technological advances lead to consumers buying them, making their lives in the 1920s much more easier and efficient.

Some inventions or consumer goods

Radios

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The radio industry served as a source of entertainment or informative to the American public. Americans could now receive information right from their home, making life simpler and more efficient in the 1920s.

Children listening to the radio

The Model T and other automobiles

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Ford’s Model T introduced the assembly line to industrial America where one person had one job during manufacturing, making the job easier and leaving an increase in supply. The Model T was one of the first automobiles, and showed that many demanded the Model T for its affordable price. The production of competitor automobile companies sparked an increase in the multiple industries in need to supply the automobiles, increasing the economy and industry income in the 1920s.

The Model T in the 1920s

EQ4: How did African Americans influence society in the 1920s?

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The Harlem Renaissance

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In the neighborhood of Harlem, African Americans developed artistic customs, racial pride, and political organizations known as The Harlem Renaissance. African Americans had an influence on the government through the NAACP or through writing, influenced societal views.

The neighborhood of Harlem

NAACP

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The NAACP continuously battled to end discrimination and segregation against African Americans. They worked through the court system to get others to support the cause. While their efforts were never made bills, but helped reduce the number of lynchings of African Americans greatly. Despite never being nominated in the 1920s, the effort influenced future generations for African Americans to run for office.

Those who were in the NAACP

Jazz, Blues, and Theater

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Louis Armstrong introduced a new improvising music style called jazz which caught on very quickly as many enjoyed it. Bessie Smith was a African American woman who say a new style of song called the blues, which gave insight to oppression of African Americans. Both styles of music were introduced on stage in musicals. While this gave fame to African Americans, it also influenced African Americans leading in the political world.

A group of jazz performers

The Great Migration

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African Americans moved from rural America to the growing industrial cities in the North to find jobs. They escaped racial segregation in the south to build better lives and seek economic wealth. While the North still has some discrimination and segregation. African Americans brought an economical increase to the industries, providing spots for open jobs.

A family living in rural America, leaving their home during the Great Migration

Writers in the Harlem Renaissance

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In the art field of this renaissance, many important writers appeared. Claude McKay was the first of many who wrote about his bitter hatred and defiance, two important characteristics of Harlem writers, of racism in his collection of poetry called the Harlem Shadows. Langston Hughes was another prominent and leading voice of the writers of Harlem. Zora Neale Hurston was the first to write about stories featuring African American women. People got to hear the other side on how African American felt through writing.

A picture of Zora Neale Hurston

4 Cited Sources:

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

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Movies & Radio:

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Motion picture drew Americans in. Once sound was introduced to mass media, which includes the radio, the movies, the radio, and the newspaper, more people went to see movies and buy radios. They provided a new form of entertainment for people. Movies and radios helped unify the nation as everyone wanted to be entertained by the mass media.

A group of people waiting to see a movie at a theater

Writers-F. Scott Fitzegerald:

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Many American writers wrote about their distaste with America & their involvement in WWI. This included writing a character that was a antihero, but also showed hero like characteristics. This is how writer F. Scott Fitzegerald wrote, his most famous piece of work being The Great Gatsby which criticized American society and post-war attitudes.

Pictured: Writer F. Scott Fitzegerald

Art-Georgia O' Keefe:

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European Art movements influence an art movement in America. The most important thing about the art movement is the art style of the many artist was so diverse. Georgia O' Keefe painted pictures of landscape and flowers, rather than traditional paintings of religious figures and historical figures.

Pictured: Artist Georgia O'Keefe

Sports:

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Spectator sports could now be heard or seen thanks to radios and motion picture. Sports became so popular as another recreational activity for Americans. Baseball was the most popular, as baseball player, Babe Ruth became a national hero. He became famous for hitting over hundreds of home runs. People saw him as a celebrity, bot just a baseball player.

Pictured: Basball star Babe Ruth

Poet- Gertrude Stein

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Poets and writers were vary diverse in styles of writing. Poetry greatly impacted literature, especially in the 1920s. Gertrude Stein was an important poet that mentored many great poets like Ernest Hemmingway. She mostly wrote poetry, but did play writing and writing as well.

Pictured: Poet Gertrude Stein

“We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why.”

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-When Harlem Was in Vogue

"But to-day it is the Italians, Spanish, Poles, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Balkanians, and so forth, who are the racial lepers. And it is eminently fitting and proper that so many Members of this House with names as Irish as Paddy's pig, are taking the floor these days to attack once more as their kind has attacked for seven bloody centuries the fearful fallacy of chosen peoples and inferior peoples. The fearful fallacy is that one is made to rule and the other to be abominated.…"

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-Robert H. Clancy who opposed the Johnson-Reed Act as "un-American" because it discriminated against the foreign born.

"Henry Ford did not invent the automobile; but he made it a success as no other man in the world has done. Incidentally he has made money by the hundred million;but only incidentally. The money can mean little to him—there is too much of it and his ideas of how to spend it are too elementary. But he has his fun all the same. And because of it, we have ours."

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-The Nation: "Strut,Miss Lizzie!" The Nation,December 14,1927,672.

"Religion is not hostile to learning, Christianity has been the greatest patron learning has ever had. But Christians know that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" now just as it has been in the past, and they therefore oppose the teaching of guesses that encourage godlessness among the students."

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-William Jennings Bryn from The Scopes Trial, who opposed evolution

" No American travels abroad without blushing for shame for his country on this subject. And whatever the excuse that passes current in the United States, it avails nothing abroad. With all the powers of government in control; with all laws made by white men, administered by white judges, jurors, prosecuting attorneys, and sheriffs; with every office of the executive department filled by white men—no excuse can be offered for exchanging the orderly administration of justice for barbarous lynchings and 'unwritten laws.'"

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-excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett's article "Lynch Law in America", who was part of the NAACP

"He is about 40 years old and has been following baseball for thirty-five, according to his own admission. He was far from modest and as soon as the game was over rushed to the dressing room to let the Babe know who had the ball."

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-The New York Times "Ruth Crashes 60th to Set New Record"

"They were patting their feet and singing and a man standing nearby asked, 'Uncle, where are you going?' The old man replied, 'Well son, I’m going to the promised land.'"

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-"NEGRO MIGRATION DURING THE WAR" by Emmett J. Stone

"All the officers here know we are making this hunger strike that women fighting for liberty may be considered political prisoners; we have told them. God knows we don’t want other women ever to have to do this over again."

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- Doris Stevens,Jailed for Freedom (Salem, NH: Ayer Co., 1920; reprint 1990): 246–7

"The war ended modern painting, as the late frost of 1921 ended the fruit trees, and the poetry Miss Stein wrote while driving motors on war service in southern France shows the blight. It read some of it, too much like 'free association,' but the end is not yet. Her prose seems to be unhurt."

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-"A Clue to the Beauty of Miss Gertrude Stein's Prose"

"Even now with The Great Gatsby before me, I cannot find in the earlier Fitzgerald the artistic integrity and the passionate feeling in which this book posses."

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-Spring Flight

"The manufacturer who has somethings to sell to a man appeals to what he should appeal to-he appeals to the man's love of comfort, to his interest in health and personal safety, to his appetites, to his love of novelty, to his acquisitive instincts; he does not appeal to his reason, his prejudices, his judgement, his moral sense.

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-Things Are In The Saddle

"The continued growth of chain stores indicated by steady advertisements in average sales per store-many carry higher-prices goods and natural swell in the total of sales."

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-Chain Store Systems Show Remarkable Growth

New Inventions and goods

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The Harlem Renaissance

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The KKK

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Babe Ruth

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