https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4 By Jakob Ramirez and Benji Guerrero en-us 2017-02-16 19:34:39 UTC 2025-10-27 20:57:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154441938 Jan 1st, 1920 Jazz Music is invented in NOLA
Jan 2nd, 1920 Palmer Raids take place in the U.S
Jan 8th, 1920 The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends
Jan 16th, 1920 18th Amendment is passed
March 19th, 1920 Senate rejects the League of Nations Establishment
April 1920 Cotton Prices in South drop making it less than 10c a lb
August 18th, 1920 19th Amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote
Nov 2nd, 1920 Warren G Harding is elected as POTUS
May 19th, 1921 Congress passes immigration restrictions for the first time targeting Southern and Eastern European immigrants 
May 31st, 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti Trials begin
October 1921 First Baseball World Series is broadcast on radio NY Giants v. NY Yankees
September 21st, 1922 The Fordney-McCumber Tariff is passed boosting the American economy but defaulting struggling European countries
August 2nd, 1923 W.G Harding dies and Calvin Coolidge takes over as POTUS
April 1925 "The Great Gatsby is published"
May 5th, 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial begins on the violation of teaching evolution
August 8th, 1925 Great KKK March in Washington D.C
February 5th, 1927 "The General" one of the greatest silent films premieres 
May 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight from NY to Paris
September 30, 1927 Babe Ruth strikes his 60th home run holding a stand for 30+ years
October 6th, 1927 "The Jazz Singer" premieres as the first talking motion picture film
August 27th, 1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed between the U.S and 15 Nations outlawing war
November 6th, 1928 Herbert Hoover becomes POTUS
November 18th, 1928 Mickey Mouse is introduced to America
February 14th, 1929 The Saint Valentines Day Massacre happens in Chicago between Al Capone's Mob and their rival Bugs Moran
October 1929 Stock Market Collapses signaling The Great Depression ]]> 2017-02-16 19:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154441938 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154443361 Nov 1919 - Jan 1920 
 An operation coordinated by General Mitchel Palmer where the federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities]]> 2017-02-16 19:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154443361 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154445912 For 5 days - 65,000 workers were involved in Seattle from February 6-11. It Started because of efforts to get higher wages after the end of WW1 wage controls. AFL and IWW joined. The press and government saw it as a radical effort to undermine American ideals they connected it to socialist radicalism and tried to claim Bolesheviks had started it. It was successful and created an image for the city and its workers.
1) Steel Strike of 1919
2) Boston Police Strike of 1919]]> 2017-02-16 19:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154445912 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154446774 One of the most sucessful gansters, operating with bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling. His rise to prominence and why he was so sucessful.  ]]> 2017-02-16 19:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154446774 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154447172 After the trials when the two men were found guilty and executed by the state of MA, many Americans began to experience Red Scare. Their trial also est. Capital Punishment, legal principles, and their crime was seen unusual in the brutality that they came across.]]> 2017-02-16 19:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154447172 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154448717 It established a quota system to regulate the influx of immigrants to America. The system restricted the new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. It also reduced the annual total of immigrants. It changed American landscape by creating tougher laws and ways for immigrants to come into America and be naturalized. It also created racial identities between the whites and people of non white race such as discrimination and violence]]> 2017-02-16 19:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154448717 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154449146 A statute was passed in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories against the bible.  "it symbolizes the conflict between science and theology, faith and reason, individual liberty and majority rule." ]]> 2017-02-16 19:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154449146 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154449793 The Ku Klux Klan first arose in the South during the Reconstruction Era, but experienced a resurgence in the period immediately following the end of the First World War. They saw themselves as vigilantes restoring justice, and they used intimidation, threats of violence, and actual violence to prevent African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, liberals, and progressives from attaining wealth, social status, and political power.]]> 2017-02-16 20:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154449793 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154450270 They thought he was a traitor because he found solutions for the common man, so the rich thought the common man shouldnt have things that the rich people do. ]]> 2017-02-16 20:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154450270 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154450315 Prohibition played an important role in the U.S from 1919-1933. The prohibition of manufacturing, selling, distribution, and the drinking of alcohol was placed on Americans as the 18th amendment. It was brought up to help the problem of alcoholism but seen as a failure. The start of moonshiners helped develop, who illegally manufactured and sold it to people looking for it. ]]> 2017-02-16 20:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154450315 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154451195  "A man who builds a factory, builds a temple" is a statement by Coolidge implying the Laissez-Faire Govt that he organized. It called for a lower income and inheritance tax, no fed. aid to those affected by natural disasters, and it did not regulate the stock market. A relationship between the govt and businesses in the 20s would have been neutral and withdrawn with the govt from interfering between them.]]> 2017-02-16 20:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154451195 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154451940 America became fascinated with Mr. Lindbergh because he was a famous aviator who became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He gave Americans hope for new ideals of transportation and aviation. The country was introduced to a new idea of aviation which would be use in other generations and the in near future such as WWII. ]]> 2017-02-16 20:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154451940 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154457281 Motion Pictures played a big role in America in the 20s because before that America only had Silent Films which were moving pictures without any sound. When motion pictured movies were produced Americans had a new hobby to participate in which helped pave a way for theaters, actors and actresses, and future films. The Jazz Singer was a a significant film because it was the first film with sound ending the silent film era and creating Hollywood in America as a #1 film market instead of Europe.

]]> 2017-02-16 20:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154457281 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154457951 The NWP was formed in 1916 and actively involved in working for the equal rights of women that men had. They specifically called for the womans suffrage and the right to vote.]]> 2017-02-16 20:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154457951 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154458216 Aka the "New Negro Movement" is the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem NYC, NY at the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. Harlem was a cultural center for African Americans. Drawing, writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. 
1) Zora Neale Hurtson
2) Alain Locke
3) Langston Hughes]]> 2017-02-16 20:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154458216 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154459270 A "Return to Normalcy" that Harding called for would look like what America had been before her involvement in WWI. He called for great change in politics, society and great prosperity throughout the 1920s as a nation.]]> 2017-02-16 20:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154459270 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154463357 This chart shows the Economic growth of America from the 20s-40s. It grew specifically during the 20s when America became prosperous up until 1929 just when the stock market crashed sending the nation into a period of depression and debt.]]> 2017-02-16 20:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154463357 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154463813 Babe Ruth was a professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees, and Boston Braves. Baseball played a major role in America in the 20s with the help of radios and newspapers sponsoring it. Many people took to liking with the est. of stadiums and team and even separate teams for blacks ]]> 2017-02-16 20:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154463813 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154465385 Pinetop's boogie woogie doesnt have much lyrics to it but it is made to get people to boogie woogie to a Jazz beat. The song says a lot about the 20s because the 20s were full of Jazz and different dances that people came up with like the Waltz or Tango.]]> 2017-02-16 21:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154465385 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154465622 2017-02-16 21:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154465622 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154686478 The broadcast was a radio show called WLS Chicago, which was created in 1924, Every Friday evening listeners would “travel” along American rivers on the Showboat and enjoy songs performed by the Maple City Four and other groups, and funny dialouge between the “Captain” and the “First Mate” the 2 main chracters. Before the 1920's the radio was only used for milotary purposes, but when it came to use by news broadcasts and entertainments purposes everyone needed to have in thier living room, to tune in and listen. ]]> 2017-02-17 19:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154686478 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154691894 In 1923, he published his work, he stresses the importance of sexual drive, infantile sexuality, and sexual energy. Freud’s theories which are so based about sexuality are during the time periodof the Victorian Era is ending and there is a “rebirth” in women’s attitudes and much of societies’ attitudes toward sexuality.]]> 2017-02-17 20:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154691894 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154774793 The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values. 
Popular Jazz Musicans: 
Jelly Roll Morton 
October 20, 1890 -July 10, 1941
Bessie Smith 
April 15, 1894 - September 26, 1937
Coleman Hawkins
November 21, 1904 - May 19, 1969

]]> 2017-02-19 05:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154774793 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154774985 The "Lost generation" was a group of writers who moved to paris and became famous for rejecting the post WW1 American values. ]]> 2017-02-19 05:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154774985 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775147 a young generation of women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was considered back then acceptable behavior. ]]> 2017-02-19 06:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775147 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775210  A theory that said the government is involved in free market capitalism, the better off business would be.]]> 2017-02-19 06:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775210 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775608 The main idea of it was to show how the wage cuts affected people, and including families and how it messed things up. The bankers and the employers don’t care about what happens to people as long as they get money]]> 2017-02-19 06:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/154775608 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155048932 He made changes in federal spending, agriculture, wage policy, immigration, international trade, and tax policy]]> 2017-02-21 02:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155048932 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155049774 "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."
This is like saying that even though they went through a depression during the decade it was still a monumental 10 years and a lot of fun]]> 2017-02-21 02:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155049774 1006477 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155050530 2017-02-21 03:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155050530 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155061282 2017-02-21 05:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155061282 1007161 https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155061358 Americanism is an attachment or allegiance to the traditions, institutions, and ideals of the United States. It was profoundly brought up throughout the 1920s in wake of WWI battling with European Anti-Semitism. 
1) KKK Rallies
2) American Pride
3) Anti European Involvement ]]> 2017-02-21 05:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1007161/el28luif89u4/wish/155061358