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Quest
who was hollywood’s “It” girl
Clara Bow: captured that flapper image for the nation to see
what does Gibson girl mean
traditional
in the 1890’s what did most African Americans do? and why?
many migrated to the urban North in search of greater freedom/ work opportunities
who was part of the cotton club (jazz club)
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Louis Armstring
Bessie Smith
Jean Tomer
playwrite
Zora Neale Hurston
writter
Paul Robeson
actor
when was African American culture reborn
in the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes poem
What happened 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.
the 20’s culture
People had more time due in part to household technologies
People bought on credit
Advertisements
Listened to radio
Fads
The Charleston
Flagpole sitting
MAH-JONGG
model T
Ford company
Affordable ($400)
Mass production
Changed peoples lives
Mobility
Teenagers
Baseball
Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth
Football
Red Grange
Boxing
Jack Dempsey
Gertrude Ederle
became the first women to swim the English Channel
Ernest Hemingway
wrote disillusioned youths wandering Europe in the wake of WW1 (The Sun Also Rises)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby highlights the opulence of American materialism while harshly criticizing its morality
T.S Eliot
commented on the emptiness of American life (Poem: The Waste Land)
Sinclair Lewis
The sharpest critic of middle-class lifestyle (Main Street)
Charlie Chaplin
was the premier comedic actor of his time
Rudolph Valentino
was the most popular male sex symbol of the era
Mary Pickford
topped the list of female sex symbols
Al Jolson
appeared he first talking movie, The Jazz Singer (1927)
Charles Lindbergh
The American hero
Flew the Spirit of St. Louis solo across the Atlantic
Honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York CIty on June 13, 1927
The Red Scare
November 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution
Bolsheviks had predicted a violent overthrow of the U.S Capitalist System
Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer feared a Bolshevik style Revolution in the United States
Palmer Raids
Arrest radicals
Emma Goldmen
violated civil rights
FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) created under J. Edger Hoover’s Leadership
Intolerance: 1920’s Immigration
“Undesirable” ethnicities
1917: Literacy Tests
1921: An outright cap on immigrant numbers was enacted
1924: National Origins Act
National Origins Act:
1924: limited Southeastern Europeans and banned Asian immigrants
KKK
By 1915, the KKK was almost dead
William Simmons lead a resurgence
1920: late 1920’s- 5,000 members to 5 million
Targets included African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and “non-Nordic” immigrants
1915: Birth of a Nation, a cinematic masterpiece and a racist production, glorified the KKK and helped grow its membership
Marcus Garvey
formed the United Negro Improvement Assocation to promote eonomic cooperation amoung black businesses
Black Star Steamship Company
began transporting African Americans “back to Africa” where it was believed African Americans could not promote prideful Black culture
Gravey 1923
Closely watched by government officials, Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and deported to Jamaica
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Two self-avowed anarchists ad atheists
April, 1920: Arrested for two Massachusetts murders
The judge violated all semblance of impartiality by criticising their political views in court
Their guilt or innocence remains uncertain
The jury found the guilty and after six years of delay, Sacco and Vanzetti were silenced permanently by the electric chair
The Scopes Trials (Monkey Trail)
1925: Tennessee Butler Law: forbade teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution in public schools
John T. Scopes (voluntarily) arrested in Tennessee for teaching evolution
Clarence Darrow represented Scopes
William Jennings Bryan represented the state
The jury sided found Scopes was in violation of Tennessee statute
he became president in 1920
warren g harding
the above president wanted to “return to normalcy” what does that mean
a time before WW1
what is a laissez-faire government
a government that purposely governs little
this political party dominated the 1920’s
republicans
true or false: from 1920-1925 Union membership dropped from 5 million to 3.5 million
true
what was the “ohio ganag”
early 1920’s corrupt presidential appointees
this president said the following, “ I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of them all right. But my friends,… They are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.” His presidency was one of the most corrupt in United States history
warren g harding
This national political scandal was among the worst during the early 1920s
teapot dome scandal
in 1921, the United States agreed to this at the Washington Naval arms conference
to put put a freeze on the construction of any new battleships
what was prohibition
The outlawing of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
prohibition became the law of the land in 1919 with this amendment to the United States Constitution
18th amendment
The Volstead act, the law implemented to enforce prohibition, actually, encourage the making of alcohol
true
These “not so secret” and underground, barring up in many towns and cities across the United States during the 1920’s
speakeasies
he was considered the most notorious organized crime boss of the 1920s
Al Capone
Regarding prohibition, all of the following were true except
Prohibition was embraced by most civil rights activists
