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1920s & 1930s
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1920s• Prohibition was imposed by a constitutional
amendment; illegal to make, transport, or sell alcoholic beverages.
• Results of Prohibition– Speakeasies (places to drink)– Bootleggers smuggled booze (moonshine)– Organized Crime (Mafia or Cosa Nostra)
• Great Migration North (of Blacks)– Jobs scarce in South– Discrimination and violence– Better employment– Discrimination and violence in North also
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Five Foot Two Button up Your Overcoat
Charleston
1920’s CULTURE• ARTART: Georgia O’Keefe (paintings of SW);
*Jacob Lawrence (painted Great Migration North)
• LITERATURELITERATURE: F. Scott Fitzgerald (wrote about Jazz Age), John Steinbeck (wrote about poor migrant workers of 1930s, *Langston Hughes (Africa and America)
• MUSICMUSIC: Aaron Copland & George Gershwin (wrote American music); *Duke Ellington and *Louis Armstrong (jazz composers); *Bessie Smith (blues singer)
• BLACK MOVEMENT IN ART & MUSIC – HARLEM RENAISSANCE *
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1920s SNAPS
Ty Cobb
Chaplin
Capone
Charleston
Ellington
Felix
Keaton
KKK
Mahjongg
Ruth
Pickford
Sacco & Vanzetti
Houdini
Ford
I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• Over speculating on stocks (using borrowed money to invest)
• Federal Reserve failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system
• High tariffs strangled international trade
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IMPACT ON AMERICANS
• Banks and businesses failed
• ¼ of all workers were out of jobs
• Many people were homeless and hungry
• Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels
THE NEW DEAL• Social Security
• Federal work programs
• Environmental improvements programs
• Farm assistance programs
• Increased rights for labor
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