The Roaring Twenties by Lauren

Why did the Modern Culture of the 1920s cause some peeple to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?

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Immigration

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They believed that the new wave of immigrants, who included Catholics and Jews from Southern and Eastern Europe would fill the country with socialist and anarchist ideas. Americans feared that their arrival with opposing religious views would impede on their morality.

Ku Klux Klan

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The KKK terrorized people, specifically Roman Catholics, Jews, and non-English-speaking immigrants. Threats made by the KKK against newly freed African Americans made the nation look as though they were fighting too violently for ¨Americanism¨.

Women

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As women began to gain more independence, new morals were instilled in Americans. With the passing of the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote, feminists lost their unity. American women's roles changed in several ways during the 1920s. As clothing styles became less conservative and more revealing, women felt a new freedom to express themselves. Voting gave them a voice in government and participation in the workforce gave them economic power.

Scopes Trial

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John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was thrust into the center of the religious storm when he was arrested for breaking the state's new law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools.The jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution--a fact he had admitted all along--and the judge fined him $100. In 1967, the law was overturned, allowing teachers to teach evolution in public schools. This trial made it clear to American citizens that times have changed and traditionla views are going to be challenged.

Organized Crime

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Organized crime run by immigrant groups denied opportunities in mainstream America emerged in major cities like New York City and Chicago, where they engaged in illegal activities including prostitution and racketeering. To maintain control of their enterprises, gangsters of the twenties resorted to intimidation, bribery and even murder. The emergence of such brutal crimes impeded on Americans morality since gangsters started to become famous for killing.

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

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Mass Production

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Many new labor-saving devices, such as electric washing machines, irons, vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, were introduced during the 1920s. Women took advantage of these new machines to ease housework. Home sewing all but disappeared, thanks to mass-produced clothing. Mass production also led to the boost in advertising, especially towards women to make them look and feel more attractive. Having almost anything to simplify daily life at your fingertips for a low cost lead America to become a consumer society.

Radios

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Although mass-circulation magazines had entertained the public since the 1880s, electronic media began its first steps. On November 2, 1920 Americans heard the first commercially licensed radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Soon radio became a family experience. Everyone would gather around the radio listening to news, comedy shows and music. One could say this was the beginning of America evolving into a technology crazed nation.

Credit

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Credit allowed families to buy bigger items to use for their homes and also as a luxury. Now you did not have to have a big disposable in come to afford things like washing machines, refrigerator, and even a car. Americans no longer worried as much about being in debt because they wanted the full American lifestyle by being able to have it all.

Mass Advertising

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In an effort to differentiate their products from the competition and win customer attention, companies employed aggressive and sophisticated advertising. Since advertising was unregulated, there were no limitations on what marketers could claim a product would do for the buyer. Companies made unhealthy and harmful products but were able to market them in any way they wanted, leaving the consumers blind to potential side effects.

Airline Industry

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The Air Mail Act of 1925 established a contract system whereby private companies could provide airmail service along routes that connected with the government-operated transcontinental route. Reflecting the rapid expansion of airmail use, the price for an ounce of mail dropped from ten cents per half ounce in 1927 to five cents an ounce by 1928. This allowed people to communicate faster and cheaper, making this decade even more innovative.

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

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John

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John Marin (Art)

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John Marin was among the first American artists to make abstract paintings. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists. His treatment of paint—handling oils almost like watercolors—his forays into abstraction, and his use of evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eye of younger painters. His experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors.

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Ernest Hemingway (Writer)

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With the publication ofA Farewell to Arms in 1929, he achieved widespread fame, and despite a steady decline in the quality of his work thereafter, his fame continued to grow until his suicide in 1961 and beyond. His work influenced a new style of writing that swept the nation and has been used widely by writers ever since.

Radio Shows

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Radio shows swept the nation, now that radios were being mass produced almost every household had one. Families made it a nightly ritual to gather around and listen to their shows.

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Babe Ruth

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Spectator sports emerged in the 1920s. People would travel far distances to see their favorite player, one of the most sought out baseball player was Babe Ruth. In his fifteen-year Yankee career, consisting of over 2,000 games, Ruth broke many batting records, while making only five widely scattered appearances on the mound, winning all of them.

Bobby Jones

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Jones was the most successful amatuer golfer ever to compete on a national and international level. During his peak as a golfer from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers.

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How did African Americans influence American Society in the 1920s

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Harlem Renaissance

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The neighborhood of Harlem, in New York City, experienced rapid growth during this era, and an African American-led artistic and political movement flourished. Poets like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson wrote vivid descriptions of African-American life, and artists, such as Augusta Savage and Archibald Motley, Jr., created a uniquely African-American art form. Theatrical performances blossomed as all-black casts performed great classics, such as Shakespeare's "Othello," and new productions, like the musical comedy "Shuffle Along," to predominantly white audiences.

Jazz

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Jazz quickly became the popular music of the day and permeated mainstream white culture to the point that the 1920s is often referred to as the Jazz Age. Jazz had a significant impact on race relations in the United States. White patrons would venture to the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York, and other jazz clubs to hear black jazz musicians like Duke Ellington. Some jazz bands were even integrated; however, audiences tended to remain segregated.

Great Migratio

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The Great Migration was just one aspect in a larger trend toward urbanization. As the U.S. transitioned from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry, urban areas, mostly in the North, grew rapidly. Cities, such as New York, Chicago, Detroit and Boston, saw a large increase in population. The growing popularity of the automobile enabled people to travel longer distances than in the past for work and play, and cities gradually expanded into vast metropolises.

Cotton Club

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The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd St & Lenox Ave from 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America's prohibition era. The club was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era including - (musicians) Cab Calloway, Andrew Preer, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong.

NAACP

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organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people

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Working Women

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Model T

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Babe Ruth

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Quotes

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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
-Duke Ellington

Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk

-Teyana Taylor

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
-Charles LIndbergh

Quotes

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
-Babe Ruth

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
-Ernest Hemingway

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
-Bobby Jones

Quotes

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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
-Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
-Henry Ford

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. -Calvin Coolidge

Quotes

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This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
-Al Capone

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

do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

-Clarence Darrow

Citations

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"The 1920s: Jazz." Decades. N.p., 2015. Web. 28 Feb. 2015.

"Duke Ellington." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2015.

"Ku Klux Klan." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 11 Feb. 2015