D O N O W: W H AT I S T H E 1 8 T H A M E N D M E N T ?

AIM: WERE THE 1920S A STEP FORWARD OR

BACK?

PROHIBITION AND CRIME

•The 18th Amendment: banned the sale and consumption of alcohol

PROHIBITION SUPPORT

•Volstead Act: law enacted by congress to enforce the 18th Amendment.

•Advocates of Prohibition: Prohibition improves individuals, strengthens families, and creates a better society.

THOSE WHO OPPOSED PROHIBITION

•Speakeasies: secret drink establishment .

•Bootlegger: one who sells illegal alcohol.

THE MOB:NEW BREAD OF MURDERS, STEALING, AND BOOTLEGGING.

- AL CAPONE: MOST FAMOUS MOBSTER OF THE TIME.

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply

a demand.”

New MASSCULTURE:

1920s

POP CULTURE

• Radio : brings distant events to your home (sports, stories)

• Phonograph: listen to music

MOVIES:

•Hollywood• Silent films• Charlie Chaplin (actor)

LEISURE

• More time to enjoy life• Picnic, games, sports

AGE OF HEROES

BABE RUTH• Homerun hero• “Great bambino”• Baseball: America’s

Pastime

CHARLES LINBERGH

• Pilot• Cross Atlantic

(33hours)• “Lucky Lindy”

Women in the 1920s

SOCIAL CHANGES

• Flappers: risky dressed• Easier housework (vacuum, dish washer)• Joined social clubs (book)

“FLAPPERS”

POLITICAL CHANGES

• Flappers believed they had the same rights and men•Newly elected to politics• 19th amendment

ECONOMIC CHANGES

• Enter the workforce - Nurses- Secretary - Teachers • New consumer goods

HARLEM RENIASSANCE : GROWTH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE:

MUSIC L ITERATURE, POETRY, AND ARTS

A “New Black Conscious”•African Americans left the South for a better future

•Become: ministers, Drs, lawyers, teachers.

THE JAZZ AGE

• African American form of music known as jazz. • Radio and phonograph helped spread.

• New Orleans

• Louis Armstrong: Trumpet player“Ambassador of Jazz”

COTTON CLUB

• One of Harlem’s most famous attractions, AA played music to white audiences

Bridges the gap between blacks and

whites

LANGSTON HUGHES

•Most powerful literary voice of his time• Poetry

LASTING IMPACT

Altered ways whites viewed African Americans

- The Roaring 20s ends with a financial collapses