1920s collage by Hunter Bailey

KKK

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 14:39:46 UTC

The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1866 by Confederate veterans in Tennessee. The Klan's second and largest wave peaked in the 1920s with KKK numbering in the millions. The KKK's white hoods and robes evolved from early efforts to pose as ghosts or spectral figures drawing on then resonant symbols in folklore to play "pranks" against African Americans and others.

Louis Armstrong

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 14:44:02 UTC

His music had such an important effect on jazz history that many scholars, critics, and fans call him the first great jazz soloist. His wife helped start his career as a jazz player. A Jewish immigrant family helped him buy his first horn.

Cars in 1920s

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 14:49:50 UTC

Cars were very basic but still a vast improvement over horse and buggy. Chevrolet in the 1920s cost $525 which is just under $8,000 today. The model T made by Henry Ford was the first car massed reproduced.

Babe Ruth

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 14:54:21 UTC

First batter to hit 60 home runs in a season. He lead the Yankees to their first American League pennant in 1921. Ruth became the first star of a world where virtually every citizen could share in common media experiences.

19th Amendment

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 14:59:13 UTC

Granted women the right to vote. Mississippi was the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment, doing so on June 11, 1970. In 1900 married women were allowed to keep their own wages and own property in their own name.

Black Tuesday

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 15:03:25 UTC

Around 14 billion dollars was lost on Black Tuesday. Many banks that had invested in the stock market or loaned money to investors went out of business. Mass bankruptcies and unemployment, and dramatic declines in production and money supply happened

The “Lost Generation” of Literature

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-06 17:53:15 UTC

The Lost Generation is best known as being the cohort that primarily fought in World War I. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane where all in the Lost Generation. Writers felt that the old norms were no longer relevant, the old ways of writing no longer relatable.

Red Scare

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:25:38 UTC

The First Red Scare which happened immediately after World War I revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism that followed revolutionary socialist movements in Germany and Russia. The threat of Communism was a driving force that created a wedge between society and the United States government.

Isolationism

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:30:56 UTC

After World War I the US attempted to become less involved in world affairs. The US advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics. After learning of the destruction and cost of World War I Americans did not want the US to become entangled in another European conflict which could lead to another devastating war.

Sacco and Vanzetti

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:34:33 UTC

Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. They shot and killed payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter and security guard Alessandro Berardelli then robbed over $15,000 in cash.

Prohibition - 18th Amendment & Volstead Act

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:38:16 UTC

The 18th Amendment became the first and so far the only constitutional amendment to be repealed in its entirety. The 18th amendment led to a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue.

Scopes Monkey Trial

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:42:02 UTC

Scopes was a football coach and science teacher. He was arrested on May 7, 1925, and charged with teaching the theory of evolution. After the trail he eventually became a petroleum engineer in the oil industry.

Abduction of Lindbergh baby

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:47:18 UTC

The Lindbergh kidnapping case led the US Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, also known as the Lindbergh Law. The baby had hammertoes on his left foot, a too-large cranium and unfused skull bones. The child had been dead, probably due to a fractured skull, since the night of the kidnapping then two days later Charles Lindbergh identified his son's body by examining its teeth.

Women’s “liberation”/Flappers

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:49:33 UTC

Flappers were young, fast-moving, fast-talking, reckless and unfazed by previous social conventions or taboos. They smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, rode in and drove cars and kissed and “petted” with different men.

Skyscrapers

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:51:44 UTC

Skyscrapers had steel framing, concrete, improved heating and plumbing, and elevators played a role in the construction of taller than ever before buildings. In America's preeminent city of the twentieth century New York the skyscraper came to be a symbol of America's modernity.

Airplanes

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:53:26 UTC

Airplanes were growing larger and faster. This is because the use of airplanes was becoming more commercialized. Mail was being carried by plane and Aviators were also interested in making faster airplanes since people began to grow interested in racing airplanes.

Radios

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:54:59 UTC

The first radios were sold in the United States for home use in 1920. By mid-decade, a decent radio could be purchased for about $35, with higher quality models being sold for up to $350. By the end of the decade, more than five million of the battery-powered radios were sold.

Ability to buy on credit

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 14:56:59 UTC

Banks offered the country's first home mortgages. Manufacturers of everything from cars to irons allowed consumers to pay "on time." About 60 percent of all furniture and 75 percent of all radios were purchased on installment plans.

Organized Crime and Gangs

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 15:00:03 UTC

Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Bugs Moran were three of the big gang members in the 20s. Al Capone ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City. Gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, robbery, “protection” rackets, and murder.

Palmer Raids

hunterbailey4 — 2023-11-07 15:04:04 UTC

The most spectacular of the Palmer Raids took place, when thousands of individuals between 3k-10k were arrested in more than 30 cities. The goal was to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.