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Background information
The years after the “War to End ALL Wars” are characterized by:· social unrest and violence · economic problems· labour unrest· fear of immigrants· fear of communism · racial tensions.
· rising middle class· more leisure time· autos and assembly lines· Prohibition and gangsters· conflict between a “loose society “ and the “moral
society”
1919 and 1920 Labour Strikes Causes:
· Inflation· Concerns about job security· Poor working conditions· Demand for better wages· Peacetime products were scarce - prices soared
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Race Unrest!
· 1917 Race riots occurred in Houston, Philadelphia, and East St. Louis.
· 1919 White mobs terrorized black communities from Texas to Washington, D.C.
· In Chicago, a white mob stoned a black swimmer to death who had strayed into the “white section” of the beach. 38 more people were killed in the violence that followed.
· Since 1890, thousands of blacks died in lynchings in the South.
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NAACPNational Association for the Advancement
of Colored People· Begin an anti-lynching campaign, asking Congress
to make lynching a federal crime. The Senate refused.
· NAACP continues to use the courts to attack segregation, disenfranchisement, and lynchings, winning few victories.
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Race Scare• Fears brought on by strikes and race riots, were often blamed on foreigners.• Fear in particular of Communism - a system in which property is owned by society as a whole instead of by individuals.• 1917 - The Communist victory in the Russian Revolution. In 1919, now the Soviet Union, begins to export revolution around the world.• Americans blame revolutionaries for the troubles here.
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· Hysteria grows when a series of bombings occurred in the spring of 1919.
· The Post Office intercepted several packages addressed to leading politicians and businessmen, that were set to explode when opened.
· One bomb exploded outside the home of the attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer.
· Palmer sets up an anti-radical division of the Justice Department, appoints J. Edgar Hoover to direct what becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The Palmer Raids and other Anti-Communist Measures
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Roaring 20's - BYODUsing your device:
Research along with me on the QR provided:
Write down 7 ideas from the 20s that were either a popular style, popular music, and popular fashions.
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Jazz MusicCake Walkin' Babies (From Home)Clarence Williams' Blue Five Gary Giddins, critic 1920s
Billy HolidayStop at 3:00
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
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BROADWAY"No, no Nanette"
"The Vagabond King"
"Dearest Enemy"
"The Ziegfield Girls"
"Rose Marie"
"The Three Musketeers"
"Deep in my heart""Maytime"
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BROADWAY"Blossom Time"
"The Student Prince of Heidelberg"
"The Desert Song"
"The New Moon"
"Shuffle Along"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjKWqeDGUs8
"Blackbirds"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khDYu6pS8HQ
"Dearest Enemy"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxk8yihfZo
"A Connecticut Yankee"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWTyw95XLQ
"Fifty Million Frenchmen"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjLfzdkOJ6k
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BROADWAY"Lady be Good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscgMkljD9k
"Oh Kay"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwG4hxaVFM
"Funny Face"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bko-Sz8HV0
"Good News"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD5tyat_L68"Sinbad"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB5_FScm41Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ
"Big Boy"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0VTfzjyDbc"Strike up the Band"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0k4t5yj5M8
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BROADWAY"Girl Crazy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHQl4G3ldYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03uSwM07_A"Of Thee I Sing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FInW3HCY9VU "Porgy and Bess"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKyiHqzluc
"Babes in Arms"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5o_rEuVR0
"I married an Angel"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=134Tx_U4dMQ
"The Boys from Syracuse"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ff3gurT00 "Too Many Girls"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYaPEKhre6A
"Anything Goes"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3b5XRd15KM
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The People
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1920-1930 Living Conditions - BYODUsing one of the items from the previous page, find 5 pictures.
Of these 5 pictures there should be some from the poor, middle, and higher class.
You will create a collage and then submit it on my page on the HMS website!
Make the title of it YOUR NAME.
· toilet· heating· lighting· electricity· refrigerator· washing machine· radio· vacuum cleaners· automobiles
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Dance• Charleston Craze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-‐gAmzo0EY• Some popular flapper dances included:• Lindy Hop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTrNLauLrs • Fox Trot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOWM6S1ITA• Kangaroo Hop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeK-‐Q1xoGxw• Chicken Scratch• Turkey Trot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50miLncUWdw
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psch9N4PmO4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTrNLauLrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOWM6S1ITA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeK-‐Q1xoGxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50miLncUWdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psch9N4PmO4
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FashionFashion in this decade consisted of flappers and gangster/suit attire.
• Women wore shorter dresses that showed the ankles. • These dresses were lighter (due to less material and new synthetic fabrics) and brighter and shorter than ever before. • Fashion designers played with fabric colors, textures and patterns to create totally new styles of dress. • Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. • Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwG-‐kRi0-‐Y• Women wore hair styles known as the "bob" or the "pixie" cut.• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFRG_B-‐-‐1v8• Men were attired in short hair, and some were clean shaven or had mustaches.• Men wore bow ties for the evening and sometimes ties.• Blazers and lounge coats were also worn for casual activities. • For the most formal occasions only the dark tail coat and trousers would do. • Men generally wore stiff bowler hats, but higher class men preferred to adorn themselves in top hats. • A day outside would sometimes call for a straw barbershop hat.• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmG0PfvEqCE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwG-‐kRi0-‐Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFRG_B--1v8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmG0PfvEqCE
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EPIC HAPPENINGS• Baseball becomes the national
pastime.• College football and boxing
become very popular• Sports hero - Babe Ruth• Gertrude Ederle swims the
English Channel in just over 14 hours in 1927.
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias set Olympic records in track and field and competed in golf, basketball and other sports.
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EPIC HAPPENINGS• AUTOMOBILE
> Influences economic prosperity> Encourages growth of suburbs> Changes patterns of leisure - road trips and vacations become commonplace> Affected patterns of crime> Changed courtship - dating> Ford Model T most popular - 15 million were produced between 1908 - 1927
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EPIC HAPPENINGSAds
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EPIC HAPPENINGS
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EPIC HAPPENINGS
Besides,They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed -
I, too, am America.
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.
Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the kitchen," Then.
Langston Hughes
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EPIC HAPPENINGSMortimer - Mickey - Disney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4s0-do1dQ
Mildred "Babe" Zaharias Didrikson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gwIauHeGsY
Adolf Hitler at 1936 Olympic Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgx8pzdjWY
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EPIC HAPPENINGSNew York World's Fair of 1939
Gave the idea to build Disneyland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe1di7NWl28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l24r3q6H344
First Movie with sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP00IQ60ZP0
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WOMEN TODAY• Flashy new dress, bobbed hair and cosmetics• liberated lifestyle• often seen smoking, drinking, dancing, and attending
lively parties• most middle class women continued to stay at home as
housewives and mothers• some began to find careers
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GOVERNMENT
The Volstead Act was enacted by Congress to ensure the proper
enforcement of Prohibition.
18TH AMENDMENTProhibits the manufacture, transport and sale of liquor after January 16, 1920.
PROHIBITION There was a place in America during Prohibition, where people gathered to drink and dance and forget their woes. Would-be customers were often met at the door of an unmarked building by steely eyes peering through a small slot. Once inside, these ordinary folks carried on with reckless abandon and rubbed shoulders with notorious gangsters like Al Capone and John Dillinger.
They called this place a speakeasy.21st Amendment
Repeals - or cancels the 18th Amendment.Ends Prohibition.
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GOVERNMENT
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GOVERNMENT
Special Law Enforcement Agents were needed to investigate and bring charges against the power of organized crime.
Scopes Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofM99LFZhxo
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Fads & SlangIn the 1920-‐1940 fads such as: • Betty Boop• Bright Red Lipstick• Cloche hat• Conk hairdo• Dance Marathons• Drive-‐in theaters• Flagpole sitting• Slinky
A lot of the slang used in the 1920-‐1940s is still used today.
Here’s a list of popular expressions used now a days: • “sweetheart” • “baby” • “dolled up”• Because of Prohibition, sayings would be translated to how to get a drink secretively:• For instance if someone was to say, “I have to go see a man about a dog,” that can be translated into someone going to buy whiskey.• An attractive female was referred to as a “sheba"• An attractive male were nicknamed a “shiek” or “daddy.” • For instance if someone were to say to you, “Let’s hop in the “breezer and go for a ride,” you should not get into that man's convertible, as his intentions are to “bump you off,” or kill you. • The police during this time were referred to as “fuzz” or “bull”. • If you were unfortunate enough be “double-crossed,” becoming a “fall guy” and “on the lam” (on the run), a “ducky” idea was to hide out, and “don’t take any wooden nickels.” Better translated to, “don’t do anything stupid.”
• Flappers• Gambling• Hood Ornaments• Mah Jong• Mandatory hats• Miniature Golf• Monopoly• Pea Shooters• Peter Pan Peanut butter• Pez• Silly Putty
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Slang continued...
• “Now you’re on the trolley!” – “Now you’ve got it!”• “Drug Store Cowboy”- a man who hangs out trying to pick up girls on street corners• “Fire Extinguisher” – a chaperone.• “Horsefeathers!”- an expletive, just like “applesauce!”• “Putting on the Ritz”- doing some expensive, or in high style, refers to the Ritz hotel• “Rag-a-muffin”- a disheveled individual• “Rubes”- money• “Torpedo”- a hired gun• “Hotsy-Totsy”- pleasing• "Flapper"- a stylish, young woman with short skirts and shorter hair• "Dapper" - a flapper's father• Blow Your Wig –
> Used to say that someone was very excited. I.e. “Don’t blow your wig, Johnny, it’s just a new car.”
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BYODUsing your device:• I want you to create a project on a piece of construction paper.• You will pick the following topics:• Dances of the 1920-1940• Fashion of the 1920-1940• Government of the 1920-1940• Art of the 1920-1940• Fads of the 1920-1940• Slang of the 1920-1940• Films of the 1920-1940• Literature of the 1920-1940• After you have picked a topic you will use 3 things you already know and 7 things you researched on your device.• Be creative and work hard - This is your TEST!
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