The Roaring Twenties by Paige

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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Nativism, immigration

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After World War I ended, immigrants flooded the United States. At the start of the 1920s, people started to dislike the surplus of immigrants in the United States. Americans thought that since these immigrants were coming from Europe, where there was communism and unfamiliar religions, that they were going to bring communism and other ideas to the United States.

Ku Klux Klan

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With the 1920s came a resurface of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK was around after the civil war and targeted African Americans. In the 1920s, the KKK targeted Catholics, Jews, immigrants and other groups that were not familiar to American culture. The modern culture of the 1920s included a variety of religions which made people feel that their traditional society and morality were under attack.

Women and Controversies

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Women started becoming more independent with the start of the 1920s. Women had gained the right to vote and started taking on similar roles as men. They started entering the workforce where many women made money to be financially independent and not have to rely on a man to be their only source of income. Women also started getting further away from traditional values. They started dressing differently, with shorter dress and hair. Previously women would dress conservatively, but now women were confident and appeared any way they wanted to. This modern culture worried many who believed in the traditional society and morality. Women were breaking away from most of the traditional ways of life which meant that the world was changing.

Prohibition and Organized Crime

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Alcohol was banned throughout the United States in the 1920s for many reasons. Some supported prohibition for religious reasons and others because it was thought that prohibition would decrease unemployment rates and violence. Many people would go around the 18th amendment to bars called "speakeasies" that would illegally sell alcohol. Organized crime was based on the illegal trade of alcohol. Prohibition threatened traditional values by creating crime through black markets. Even though prohibition started to save the traditional society and morality, it eventually threatened tradition.

Fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial

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People who felt that the 1920s modern culture was threatening traditional values joined a religious movement called fundamentalism. Fundamentalist believed in creationism (the belief that God created the world as described in the Bible). In the Scopes Trial, a biology teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to his students. This trial was broadcasted everywhere. People heard the examining of Scopes' which hurt the fundamentalist's cause. The modern culture and new ideas gave people new things to believe in. This threatened the traditional society and morality which worried people in small towns who were still holding on to the old ways of life.

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

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Mass Production

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The 1920s brought new ways of production. Mass Production is large-scale manufacturing done with machinery. This helped the economy greatly by reducing the prices of products and allowing workers to be paid more. Mass production contributed positively to the 1920s.

Model T and other Automobiles, Social impact

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Henery Ford's Model T cars were sold at a reasonable price so people without wealth could purchase the new technology. The low prices increased the volume of sales. Since Ford was doing so well, companies began to immitate him. The 1920s brought the auto industry to life. People were now able to travel long distances go places which was part of the modern way of life. People became more social and interactive with others.

Radios

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Radios were becoming part of society in the 1920s. People were now able to get new faster than before. Advertisements were now able to be displayed and the nation could be a whole unit. Companies, such as the National Broadcasting Company and the Colombia Broadcasting Company, created daily programs and shows that would inform the country on important events. Radios helped with informing the country on worldwide news and things such as the Scopes Trial. This new industry contributed to the 1920s by connecting the country.

Credit

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Credit was becoming popular with the start of the 1920s. Now that industries and a consumer society where a large part of the 1920s, people began to demand things more than before. But, since many people did not have the money to do so, they started to buy things on credit. Credit brought people of the 1920s great debt.

Mass Advertising

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Companies started using advertising to attract consumers to their products. The newfound demand that came with advertising contributed greatly to the roaring twenties. Advertising influenced people to buy things using false information or by saying that the product would make one into someone they wanted to be.

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

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Art

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Art was becoming very popular in the United States during the 1920s. The most popular artist of the time were John Marin, Charles Scheeler, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keefe. Before the 1920s, artist would create classic scenes all in the same style. Now artists would create scenes of landscapes and urban life in many different styles.

Poets and Writers

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Like artists of the 1920s, poets and writers started to vary in styles and subject matter. Before the 1920s poets and writers focused on the traditional topics of the time. The 1920s brought this change. Some famous poets and writers of the time were Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway and, the author of the Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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"the whole city is alive; buildings, people, all are alive; and the more they move me the more i feel them to be alive"

-John Marin

Movies and Radio Shows

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A main part of the 1920s was the entertainment of movies and radio shows. The technology had not been invented by the 1920s so pianos would play along to the movies. Radios broadcasted new music and information throughout the country, which helped to unify the nation. Movies and Radio shows changed the 1920s by adding great entertainment the world.

Sports

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Sports also had a major impact in the changes that occurred in the 1920s. Spectator sports started becoming popular. Since people had more free time, sports were a major part of pastimes. Baseball, boxing, football and golf became very appealing to the people of the United States. Famous athletes were idols to children all over the United States. Some of these people being Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Red Grange and Bobby Jones.

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

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Great Migration

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The Great Migration was when African Americans moved from the South to the North to seek jobs, better lives and to be free of the South's harsh segregation. This migration led to the Harlem Renaissance when African Americans had nightclubs and music that filled cities and neighborhoods. African Americans brought Jazz music to the 1920s.

Writers

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Many of the most well known authors from the African American community wrote about life as an African American and racism. These authors were Claude McKay, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. These writers told people everywhere of the hardships of African Americans and influenced society to see their suffering.

NAACP

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attempted to fight the discrimination and segregation of African Americans. This group pushed through the House of Representatives and eventually had the power to change decisions made in Congress. This took a major toll of American society in the 1920s because it was the start in ending segregation.

Jazz, Blues and Theater

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Music and entertainment became a large part of the African American society. People, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith, played at nightclubs such as the Cotton Club. The theater also became popular among African Americans. Musicals, such as Shuffle Along, were made and were very common at the time. This contributions to society influenced American society in the 1920s by giving society new music and new forms of entertainment.

Black Nationalism and Marcus Garvey

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While some African Americans supported the NAACP, other supported black nationalism. Black nationalism was African American's pride in their culture and some supporters wanted to be separated from the white society. The leader of black nationalism was Marcus Garvey. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association which aimed to support black pride and unity. Garvey eventually failed to keep the UNIA alive but he did place pride in African Americans all over the United States. The black nationalist movement influenced American society greatly but putting the pride in African Americans.

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Sources

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“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

-Marcus Garvey

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"to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation as taught by the Bible and to teach instead that man was descended from a lower order of animals."

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"Every success is the mother of countless others."

-Henry Ford

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“To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines.”

-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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"Advertising is the art of arresting the human intelligence just long enough to get money from it."

-Chuck Blore

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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"Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

-Albert Camis

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

-Marcus Garvey

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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
-- Louis Armstrong

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I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

-Clarence Thomas

By: Paige Kolodziej

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