Roaring Twenties by jess mata

Why did the modern culture of the 1920's cause some people to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?

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Woman and Controversies

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Around World War I time, the years 1914 to 1918, woman decided to focus on war efforts and a little after, got the right to vote on June 4, 1919. Congress ratified and leaned towards the 19th amendment, which explains how all Americans have the right to vote. A woman by the name of Harriet Chapman Catt created what's called the League of Women Voters. It was created to educate women about all of the responsibilities that come with becoming a new voter. A woman by the name of Colleen Moore was an inspiration to woman in the 1920's. Woman were also thought of as flappers as an example of the changes Colleen Moore achieved. Moore embraced the factors that woman should be happy and strong enough to express who they really are through hair, and clothes. Some cut their hair, some changed their wardrobe. All was such a big change to not only the woman, but to everyone around them. Some saw it as a good thing, some thought it was bad that they could be distractions. At the end of the day, it just let woman have a way to show their expressions for freedom and actually feel like women.

Prohibition & Organized Crime

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Prohibition all started once the 18th amendment of the United States explained how any sales, possession, and consumption of alcohol was not accepted. The Volstead Act was passed in 1920 to help carry out the new amendment. While making alcohol illegal, lots of hidden activity such as selling and consumption of it was still being done in an "underground economy", or secretly. Prohibition also created a lot of crime in the streets and the formation of gangs and gangsters. According to SIRS Decades website, here is a primary source image of all the problems caused by prohibition. Lots of talk happened and lots of ideas where spoken of to resolve this issue, and many thought for "A Solution For Our Prohibition Problems".

Nativism & Immigration

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The whole nativism perspective is having a belief that a person's native land, where they are originally from, should be protected against immigrants. During World War I, majority of the numbers of immigrants came from southern and Eastern Europe. Immigrants were often blamed by Americans for violence, that they brought violence wherever they went. Immigrants were also being blamed for coming to America and getting jobs that were once reserved for soldiers when they return from the war. These ideas in mind had many Americans believe that the immigrants would not be able to get comfortable with the culture. This led to the Ku Klux Klan, to keep "unnecessary" immigrants out of the country. While much attention was going to Europen immigrants, many mexican immigrants were needed for labor work. Following with the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, a lot of factory farms needed more workers. Since the demand for workers became an increasingly high number, mexican immigrants crossed the border constantly I. By the end of 1920's 700,000 had came into the United States.

Ku Klux Klan

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In the 1920's, there was a lot of controversy when looking at immigration. The KKK, were a group of people who did not appreciate all immigrants coming into the country, they felt they were superior unlike the immigrants who cheat their way through life, unlike the Americans, who have loved and worked hard here their whole lives. The KKK once started in southern countries of the United States focusin on African Americans after the Civil War, using threats and violence to the newly freed African Amerixans when looking at slavery. The group has expanded, and now focuses on Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and other groups that they thought were considers to be "un-american". William J. Simmons founded the group back in 1915. By 1924, the group had reached almost 4 million members as it spread from the south, up to northern cities.

Sacco-Vanzetti court case

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On the date of April 15, 1920, two men by the names of Nicola Sacco, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, robbed and murdered two employees in a shoe factory in Massachusetts. This was such a hot topic because newspapers released the information that the two men were anarchists, people who oppose all types of government. This made May people think they were automatically guilty. They were eventually sent to death. They were finally executed after a long six years of appeals on August 23, 1927. A man by the name of John Dos Passos, wrote "Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die". He was an ambulance driver in France during the war, and that helped him with background for a few of his novels. Passos, in this excerpt, explains that "...We stand defeated, America..." because he feels that since such controversy was made due to the actions caused from two immigrants, and that's all the country would talk about, the streets "you only see the downcast faces of the beaten... The streets belong to the beaten nation, all the way to the cemetery where the bodies of the immigrants are to be burned..."

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

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Mass Production

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Mass production in the 1920's was large-scale manufacturing done with big machines in a factory, with an increase in supply and high demands. Workers were paid more, and consumer demands were very high. Henry Ford, created the assembly line, where complicated tasks in the workforce would be divided into simpler tasks and would eliminate unnecessary motion to make it the least amount as possible. This made products that people wanted to but much more easier to get. As Ford once said, "the short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much." Ford doubled workers' pay to $5 and cutting a day's work down to an 8 hour shift.

Radios

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This source is a picture of kids being introduced to the radio in the 1920's. The radio all started back in 1913 when a man by the name of Edwin Armstrong, an engineer, invented a special circuit that made it possible to transmit sound through a long-range radio. The industry for radios soon began years later. 1927 was the marking date to set that about 700 stations dotted the country. Sales were up to $842.5 million. By this time, ten million radios were now in use across the country. He presidential campaign in 1928 was broadcasted through radios. This year also had the Columbia Broadcasting System to assemble a network of stations to rival NBC. This network advertised time and hired musicians and actors from all around.

Mass Advertising

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This primary source image was made in the 20's when automobiles were just starting to become popular. But in order for more Americans to know about certain products, there needs to be advertising! Advertisers linked products with qualities in order to get people's attention. Examples of mass advertising were trials. Advertisers often promised long term savings and 30-day trials so they can get consumers to buy their products. Advertising also made Americans think of role playing. With advertising, it would make Americans think that certain products were for certain people, whether the product would be for men or women. It all depended on how the advertisers would advertise.

Automobiles & Social Impact

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Automobiles changed America. They were involved in society to show and expression of freedom, and new customs. They enabled Americans to love farther from work, and be able to get to places a lot easier. Even new jobs came out to form with the impact of automobiles. As an auto commuter, people would drive from home in the suburbs and drive to their workplaces,while the trolley became a less popular form of transportation. Automobiles were not the only thing that came to be. The social impact that came along with the automobiles were washers, dryers, food mixers, and refrigerators. All of these new technologies helped many Americans' standard ways of living. As Henry Ford once said, "The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community." All of these new technologies coming about sure did impact society.

Credit

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Credit in my he 1920's has been notes as a big economic boom of borrowing. Credit wasn't created in the 20's, it's been around for longer, but Americans thought that debt was shameful so not much attention was pointed to it. Many Americans took "buy now and pay later" into consideration a lot, or "but now and pay in easy installments." Both were quite popular and similar. Studies show that 75% of Americans bought their radios and 60% I then bought their automobiles on the installment plan. Some Americans even started to get credit quicker than their incomes, and how fast it increased.

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

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Movies

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Movies in the 1920's were very uprising. In the beginning, there were only silent movies. While the movies would play, theaters would hire piano players to provide music during the movie, and then there would be subtitles to explain what would be happening as the movie progresses. In 1927, The Jazz Singer was produced, the first "talking" picture. A famous actress was Clara Bow. She was seen in many movies all around. Many people looked up to her. She always thought, "people used to say that I had a feeling of closeness, a great warmth of loving everybody, that they could tell me their troubles." She felt her acting in movies was something inspiring to people, and that's what she loved.

Sports

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“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” The famous Babe Ruth's wise words stuck around for quite some time. Babe Ruth was famous for hundreds of home runs. Many claimed him to be a worldwide celebrity. Ruth was eventually the first to be paid to endorse products in advertisements that sometimes would tie back to his name. Babe Ruth was a role model to many Americans, as he once said, “I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.”

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Colleen Moore

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Clara Bow

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Radio Shows

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The impact of radio shows back in the twenties was that the mass media, movies, newspapers, magazines, and even radio shows, was just more for entertainment. the availability to many Americans helped break down patterns of local interests, so people were up to date on recent news, and were able to communicate a lot better. Radio shows often helped unify the nation and spread new ideas and attitudes.

Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Writers in the 1920's had various types of writing and different styles of writing. Writers' works have had an impact on literary culture. A writer from the 20's would be F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitz wrote the Great Gatsby, and was well known for it too. Fitz used color schemes to bring out his writing and also used colorful characters to chase dreams, especially in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald lived until the 40's but he made it very clear that he was very talented in what he did. He also had a big title called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Gatsby and Button were both great big titles back in the twenties. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Art

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One of the major art names to be told in the 20's was Georgia O'Keefe. Her art work was very bright, and attracted a lot of attention. Her art created a lot of talk, and made people think a lot. Her artwork may have also created a lot of optimism and many new perspectives were made while looking at her artwork, and even in other real world situations. She is known for being different, and expressing feelings through the colors that she used to use. She mainly focuses on the true beauty of everything as she once stated, "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

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

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Harlem Renaissance

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During the Great Migration in the 20's, many African Americans were to escape southern segregation, find economic opportunities and build better lives in the north. The North was much better to them rather than the South. African American populations soon skyrocketed in the northern cities, where there were many nightclubs, music, mainly in NYC. In NYC, the city, Harlem, was the "heart and soul of the African American renaissance". Artistic development, and such art work being presented through them, The Harlem Renaissance sparked new trends in literature, music, and art. This drew African American writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars to show their pride and culture. An author/writer from this era was a man by the name of Langston Hughes. Langston was later known as one of the earliest innovators of the art further known as Jazz poetry.

Great Migration

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Similar to what was just talked about, the GM was an era where the African Americans came to the Northern cities and left the southern segregation because they felt that the north was simply just a lot better for them, a better lifestyle overall. The northern cities and just the North in general was very different and almost life changing to them. They were not used to being able to see all of the new technologies and opportunities that were right in from of their eyes. Although the North still had a little discrimination towards the African Americans, opportunities at getting where they've always wanted to be in life, were at a much greater chance to get to in the cities rather than staying in the South.

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Black Nationalism

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Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association represent the largest mass movement in African-American history. To promote unity, Garvey encouraged African Americans to be concerned with themselves first. With that being said, this created a lot of nationalism for the African Americans. In order for them to be true to who they are and be happy, they must be focusing on themselves and not caring or listening onto what other people may say or think about African Americans. Having self pride lead to unity, and having a lot of African Americans come together as one show Americans that they can be just as unified and just as strong as any other American in the 1920's.

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Hughes

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Writers: Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora was a very important writer back in the 1920's. She was very important to the Harlem Renaissance. Some of her novels that she published were Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her writing tied back to her personal and spiritual views of African American culture, and her writings were examples of African American women becoming central characters. She felt the discrimination, she felt the hatred, she felt a lot of things that critics were saying and being thrown at her for her writings, but what she wrote made her happy, and she had a voice. She was heard from places all around. Her quote here on the right, explains how she thinks it is crazy how some people can judge someone's work by who created it. Every single writer has so much potential, whether it'd be and American, African American, a writer is a writer. If they had the opportunity to share their thoughts and pieces and were proud of it, they should be allowed to do so. Every writer has their own style and that is what made their pieces so unique.

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NAACP

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people was created back in 1909 but took a big role back in the twenties. This organization dealt with being able to provide the political, educational, social, and economic quality of rights to all people regardless of being American of African American. This association also had a duty of eliminating racial hatred and discrimination. This association was used to overturn the Jim Crow Laws. Over the next ten years, the NAACP made much improvement, becoming known for its share of equal rights and equal protection for the "American Negro".

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