1920s padlet by Alexa Wright

The Jazz Age Image

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-01 14:32:33 UTC

The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald termed the 1920s "the Jazz Age." With its earthy rhythms, fast beat, improvisational style, jazz symbolized the decade's spirit of liberation. At the same time, new dance style arose, involving spontaneous bodily movements and closer physical contact between partners.

Jazz Music YouTube Video

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-01 14:44:45 UTC

It featured improvisation over traditional structure, performer over composer, and black American experience over conventional white sensibilities. Undercurrents of racism bore strongly upon the opposition to jazz,which was seen as barbaric and immoral.

WW1 Newspaper Clipping

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-05 19:31:58 UTC

World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict fought between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.

Womens rights in the 1920s

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-06 00:42:08 UTC

Along with voting rights, the upper and middle class women of the 20s experienced more liberties than those before them. Flappers, young women of the 20s intent on enjoying themselves and defying conventional rules of behavior, smoked, drank, and dated.

Prohibition Political Cartoon

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-06 00:45:35 UTC

Alcohol was perceived by many God fearing Americans to be the root of all evil: a scourge ruining American workers and their families and threatening the American way of life.

Automobiles Image

wrighta0666 — 2024-02-06 00:48:27 UTC

The automobile did reduce travel time, did reduce rural isolation, did increase life's pleasures, did a lion's share of boosting the economy. In the 1920s, as never before, the automobile became a must-have item for the successful American, and it was changing everything.