1.  How do you think the
older generation views
your generation? Explain.

4.  As the 1920’s opened, an
economic recession, influx of
immigrants, and racial and
cultural tension combined to
create an atmosphere of
disillusionment and
intolerance
 The Fear and prejudice
towards Communists and
Germans had expanded to
include all immigrants

5.  In this decade, America became the
wealthiest country in the world with no
obvious rival.
 Yet by 1930 she had hit a depression
that was to have world-wide
consequences.
 But in the good times everybody
seemed to have a reasonably well
paid job and everybody seemed to
have a lot of spare cash to spend.

6.  Remember during WWI,
immigration had dropped
significantly to the US
 By 1921 it had returned to
prewar levels
 Many Americans saw the
immigrants as a threat to
stability and order
 The arrival of immigrants also
seemed to pose a threat to
the 4 million recently
demobilized military men and
women searching for a job

7.  In the 1920s, racism and
nativism increased.
 Immigrants and
demobilized military men
and women competed
for the same jobs during
a time of high
unemployment and an
increased cost of living.

8.  Ethnic prejudice was the basis of the Sacco and
Vanzetti case, in which the two immigrant men
were accused of murder and theft.
 They were thought to be anarchists, or opposed
to all forms of government.
 Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death,
and in 1927 they were executed still proclaiming
their innocence.

9.  Nativists used the idea of
eugenicseugenics, the false science of the
improvement of hereditary traits,
to give support to their
arguments against immigration.
 Nativists emphasized that human
inequalities were inherited and
said that inferior people should
not be allowed to breed.
 This added to the anti-
immigrant feeling of the time
and further promoted the idea of
strict immigrant control.

10. From 1906 onward, at least 60,000 Americans were sterilized
against their will. California and Virginia lead the nation in the
number of sterilizations per state. The legal basis for these forced
sterilizations was the so called science of Eugenics.

13. What is going on in this picture??

14. o The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) led the
movement
to restrict immigration.
 This new Klan not only targeted
the freed African Americans
but also Catholics, Jews,
immigrants, and other groups
believed to have “un-
American” values.
 Because of a publicity
campaign, by 1924 the Ku Klux
Klan had over 4 million
members and stretched
beyond the South into Northern
cities.

16.  Ideals of the loving family
and personal satisfaction
increased the
importance of love and
friendship within a
marriage.
 The rise of young, single
women in the workforce
brought a new
perspective on how
women participate in
society – as laborers and
consumers.

17.  The rise of women
attending college
altered views of the
intellectual status of
women and increased
their independence.
 The automobile
allowed young people
a chance to escape
the confines of their
parents’ home and
gain their
independence with
increased private
socializing
opportunities.

18. Eyeglasses
No Kissing/Making Out Bank’s Closed
Sinker
 Speakeasy
Doughnut
 Bee’s Knees The Ultimate
 Egg
 Cheaters
 Clam
 Ducky
 Bell Bottom
 Flivver Model T
Dollar
Very Good
Illicit Bar
A Person Who Lives the Big Life
A Sailor
Tomato Female
Bell Ringer 1/8/2009

20. “She wore a knitted hat,
with hardly any brim, of
a flame or bonfire hue; a
henna scarf; two strings
of Betty beads, of
different colors, twisted
together; an open short
coat, with ample
pockets; a skirt with
vertical stripes… her
stockings were woolen
and of brilliant hue.”
 Psychologist G. Stanley
Hall

22.  During the 1920s
everybody seemed to be
buying everything,
 Businesses set out to meet
the demands of
consumers, producing
new products in record-
breaking quantities.
 Cars, radios, appliances,
ready-made clothes,
gadgets, and other
consumer products found
their way into more and
more American homes
and garages.

24.  Americans also started
buying stocks in greater
numbers, providing
capital to already
booming companies.
 All the signs pointed
upward, and starry-eyed
men and women began
to believe that it was
going to be a one-way
trip, possibly forever.

25.  Henry Ford’s assembly
line not only
revolutionized
production, it
democratized the
ownership of the
automobile.
 Ford showed that
handsome profits could
be made on small
margin and high
volume.

26.  By 1925 his famous
Model T sold for less
than $300, a modest
price by the standards
of the 1920s.
 Americans had never
had it so good.
(Many, of course,
would not have it so
good again for a long
time.)

27.  Thanks to pioneers such as
Lindbergh, the airplane
began to come of age in the
1920s.
 Although airplanes had been
used for various modest
purposes, mostly
reconnaissance, in the World
War, they were still exotic
gadgets in 1920.

29.  After Lindbergh’s flight, planes
began to carry passengers for
travel rather than just for thrills.
 Regularly scheduled flights began,
and airports were constructed to
handle passengers and small
amounts of cargo.
 American and United Airlines were
two of the successful early airline
companies.
 The end was in sight for railroad
domination of the transportation
industry.

30.  People danced until they
dropped, and one fell to
the floor, dead! (not
literally, but close  )
 The radio became
popular, and people tuned
in everyday.
 The T.V. was not invented
yet, so the radio was the
next best thing.
 When they listened, people
liked to listen to jazz,
especially the king of jazz,
Louis Armstrong.

31.  After World War I and into
the early 1920s, America was
the leading producer of films
in the world
 The studio system was
essentially born with long-
term contracts for stars,
lavish production values,
and increasingly rigid control
of directors and stars
 The first films with sound
began to appear, called
talkies

33.  Because of the growth of cities
brought by immigration and
internal migration, a sharpening
divide grew between urban and
rural areas.
 Sophisticated city dwellers began
to look at their country cousins as
hicks or bumpkins
 Whereas those in the farm belts
viewed the cities as places of
degradation, immorality, and
“foreign” influences.

34.  Thought of by
the Progressives
 Was a plan to
stop people
from drinking
alcoholic
beverages

35.  Added to the
Constitution in
1919
 Made the
production, sale,
and
transportation of
alcoholic
beverages illegal

36.  Reduce Crime
 Reduce Poverty
 Lower Death Rates
 Improve the Quality of Life

38.  Bootleggers - smuggled
alcohol from surrounding
countries
 Speakeasies (hidden
saloons, nightclubs)
become fashionable
 People built their own
stills to distill liquor
(Bathtub Gin)

39.  Speakeasies were formed in the 1920's
as a means to get around the everyday
hassle of law enforcement watching for
people to violate the 18th Amendment.
 As a result of Prohibition, the speakeasy
was an established institution. For every
legitimate saloon that closed as a result
of the new law, a half dozen
underground palaces sprung up.

40.  These speakeasies were
one of the many ways
that people during the
1920's and early 1930's
obtained illegal alcohol.
 By the middle of the
decade there were
thought to be 100,000
speakeasies in New York
City alone.

41.  Prohibition contributed to
organized crime in major
cities
- Wanted to make money
off illegal liquor
 Underground gangs
battled for control of the
booze racket
 1923 – Al Capone emerged
as leader of organized
crime
 Controlled Chicago liquor
business by killing

42.  Prohibition failed
because the policy
was pretty much
unenforceable
 Only 5% of smuggled
liquor was actually
stopped from coming
into the country
 Gangs overpowered or
bribed authority figures

43. • Instead of lowering the crime
rate prohibition actually lead to
an increase in crime.
• Large amounts of money could
be made from illegal
bootlegging.

44.  The 21st
Amendment ended
prohibition in 1933

46.  Fundamentalism –
movement based on
literal interpretation
of Bible
 Fundamentalists
skeptical of some
scientific discoveries
& theories
- Rejected theory of
evolution
 Believed all
important
knowledge could be
found in Bible

47.  In 1925 Tennessee passed the
Butler Act, which made it
illegal to teach anything that
denied creationism and
taught evolution instead.
 John T. Scopes, a biology
teacher, volunteered to test
the Butler Act by teaching
evolution in his class.
 After being arrested and put
on trial, Scopes was found
guilty, but the case was later
overturned.
 After the trial, many
fundamentalists withdrew
from political activism.

48. Music, Art, and Literature

49. The brutality of WWI
caused writers to
question accepted ideas
about reason, progress,
religion, anxieties about
the future, and fear of the
future

50.  American author whose
works are reminiscent of the
Jazz Age, a term he coined
himself.
 Most famous for writing The
Great Gatsby

51. “Heroes come and go, but
legends never die”

52.  American boxer and
world heavyweight
champion from 1919-
1926.

53.  The Babe
 The Sultan of Swat
 The Colossus of Clout
 The Great Bambino!
 Helped solidify
baseball as
America’s pastime
 Known for calling his
homerun in the 1932
World Series

55. Bringing African American
culture into the forefront

56.  After WWI, hundreds of thousands
African Americans left the rural south
and headed into industrial cities
 The cities were full of nightclubs and
music, particularly in NY cities
neighborhood of Harlem

57. Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the
center of the African American political, cultural,
and artistic movement in the 1920s and early
1930s.

58. Harlem in
the early
1930s
Based on these pictures, describe what
life was like in Harlem in the early 1930s.

59. Cause
s
What events and movements do you think may have helped lead
to the Renaissance?Great Migration:
•After WWI,
hundreds of
thousands African
Americans left the
rural south and
headed into
industrial cities
•The cities were full
of nightclubs and
music, particularly
in NY cities
neighborhood of
Harlem
Every family has that
one member that they
don’t want to admit to!
Don’t let it be you!!!

60. Cause
s
Growing African American Middle Class: developed
as a result of improved educational and employment
opportunities for African Americans.
The Harlem section of New York became the center of this
new African American class.

61. Impac
t
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a
deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before After

62.  It was in Harlem that African Americans
created an environment that stimulated
artistic development, racial pride, a
sense of community, and political
organization Harlem Renaissance

63. If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an
inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and
hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our
accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may
not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters
we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us
though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the
common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us
show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal
one deathblow!
What though before us lies the
open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous,
cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but
fighting back!
•Considered first important writer
of the Harlem Renaissance.
•Wrote about racism

64. Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream
deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten
meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Versatile writer and poet his
work crossed color barriers

65.  Their Eyes Were
Watching God
 Celebrated the
courage of African
Americans in the
South
 Main characters in
her novels were
African American
women– One of the
first to do this

66. Bessie Smith – Empty Bed Blues
I woke up this morning with a
awful aching head
I woke up this morning with a
awful aching head
My new man had left me, just
a room and a empty bed
Bought me a coffee grinder
that's the best one I could
find
Bought me a coffee grinder
that's the best one I could
find
Oh, he could grind my
coffee, 'cause he had a
brand new grind

67. You ain't nothin but a hound
dog, been snooping round
my door
You ain't nothin but a
hound dog, been snooping
round my door
You can wag your tail but
Lord I ain't gonna feed you
no more
You told me you were high
class, but I can see through
that
You told me you were high
class, but I can see through
that
And daddy I know you ain't
no real cool cat

69. Louis Armstrong – “Satchmo”

70. Politic
s
Political Agenda For Civil Rights by African Americans:
leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey and the
NAACP helped to inspire racial pride in the middle and
working class.
Marcus Garvey
pushed for the Back
to Africa movement
Du Bois, author of The Souls of
Black Folks, was instrumental in
the foundation of the NAACP.

71. The NAACP
published The
Crisis, a journal
used to share the
literary works of
African
Americans.
Du Bois believed that artistic and literary
work could be used as a form of
propaganda to help combat racial
stereotypes and gain new respect for
the race.
What
message does
this song,
written by an
African
American,
send to the
general
public?
How do images like this hinder the efforts
of African Americans like Du Bois?

72. Affect of the Harlem
Renaissance
 Flowering of African American art
 New forms of music such as Jazz and
Blues
 Shed light on racism
 NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People )
 Instilled black pride and hope for future
African Americans

73.  Video Clip
then
 Review Activity

74. 1. Nativists emphasized that human inequalities
were inherited and said that inferior people
should not be allowed to breed. They used the
false science of ____________ to support their
argument.
 Eugenics

75. 2. 1920s slang for dollar
 clam

76. 3. 1920s slang for illegal bar
 speakeasy

77. 4. This racist organization increased
membership during the 1920s. There
were over 4 million members in the
US
 KKK

78. 5. This amendment prohibited
production, sale, transportation of
alcohol
 18th

79. 6. This religious movement began to
call for laws prohibiting the
teaching of evolution
 Fundamentalism

80. 7. In 1925 Tennessee passed the Butler
Act, which made it illegal to teach
anything that denied creationism
and taught evolution instead. What
famous trail came from this?
 Scopes Trail

81. 8. The first affordable car for
the average person
 Model T

82. 9. Term for an assertive women from
the 1920s, who frequented night
clubs and speakeasies
 Flapper

83. 10. True or false- Prohibition helped
America become a safer place
 False

84. 11. After WWI, hundreds of thousands
African Americans left the rural
south and headed into industrial
cities. This was known as what?
 Great Migration

85. 12. Political activist who lead the
back to Africa movement
 Marcus Garvey

86. 13. Female writer from the Harlem
Renaissance who wrote about
African American women?
 Zora Neal Hurston

87. 14. There are 5 apples. You take 314. There are 5 apples. You take 3
away. How many do you have?away. How many do you have?
Answer: 3

88. 15. Read the following image quickly15. Read the following image quickly
then write what it said.then write what it said.
Answer: A Bird In The The Bush

89. 16. If a single feather weighs 0.216. If a single feather weighs 0.2
grams how much does a ton ofgrams how much does a ton of
feathers weigh?feathers weigh?
Answer: A ton

90. 17. How many sides does a stop sign17. How many sides does a stop sign
have (Not 2)?have (Not 2)?
Answer: 8

91. 18. Mary’s father has 4 children;18. Mary’s father has 4 children;
three are named Nana, Nene,three are named Nana, Nene,
and Nini. So what is is the 4thand Nini. So what is is the 4th
child’s name?child’s name?
Answer: Mary

92. 19. The more of them you take, the19. The more of them you take, the
more you leave behind. What aremore you leave behind. What are
they?they?
Answer: footsteps

93. 20. What word in the English language20. What word in the English language
is always spelled incorrectly?is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: incorrectly

95. Modern AmericanModern American
Art:Art:
Attempting to express the
individual, modern experience

96. Les FauvesLes Fauves
 Emphasized painterly
qualities and strong
color over the
representational or
realistic values
retained by
Impressionism
Woman With A Hat,
Henri Matisse

97. Charing Cross Bridge, London ,
André Derain

98. SurrealismSurrealism
 Feature the element of surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions and non sequitur.
The Persistence of
Memory, Salvador Dali

99. By Max Ernst

100. Analytical CubismAnalytical Cubism
 “Analyzed" natural
forms and reduced
the forms into basic
geometric parts on
the two-dimensional
picture plane
 Monochromatic
color
Woman With A Guitar,
Georges Braque

101. Le Guitariste, Pablo Picasso

102. Synthetic Cubism
 A pushing of several
objects together
 Use of mixed media
Still Life with Fruit Dish
and Mandolin, Juan
Gris

103. Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso

104. DadaDada
 concentrated its anti
war politics through a
rejection of the
prevailing standards in
art through anti-art
cultural works
Cut with the Dada Kitchen
Knife through the Last
Weimar Beer-Belly
Cultural Epoch in
Germany, Hannah Höch

105. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp