Roaring 20s

Points of Interest

An American culture starts to emergeTechnologyTemporary Happy Times (for some)Economy out of controlChange Change Change!

Isolation

To Forget Fighting Wars

MiddletownStudy of how Americans live their lives and the changes that have been documented by sociologist Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell

Migration Patterns

1880-1920 +

Nativism

Angel Island

Ellis Island

Equals Urban America in Cities

1926 NY

Tenement Houses

Cultural FusionWe hates the ways in how

you dance

You are killing

America!

Nativist

Assimilating the Immigrant

Education, Movies, Food and Common Stores

Early 1900 Education

1920 Economy

Adjusting from WWI economyCar creates economic boomNew productsStocksAdvertising

Model T

By 1927 one car produced every twenty-four seconds

Sales jumped from 1.5 million to 5 million by late 1920s

Credit

1920 Economy

FordAds=PersuasionCredit=Increases purchase power/consumptionWelfare Capitalism and no to unions

Quick ChangesChanging the old

Vamps and Flappers

California bathers being confronted by policewomen because they were "scantily clad"

But we are hot

Science (Scope’s Trial)

City life sucks!

Innovation (1929)My wife forgot my sandwich

Common Stores

Movement Harlem Renaissance

Educate ImmigrantsWashington, DC, immigrant-naturalization school - 1920s National Photo Co. / Library of Congress LC-F801-4509)

Credit I would like to buy this to

impress Habib but I do not

have $You can buy using

credit

Is she talking about mu husband Habib?

20s issues

prohibition

Speakeasies

Flappers and Vamps

Women and 19th

Amendment

Challenging 4 Virtues

Old vs. New

Scope’s Trial

Economic Boom

Car, credit and ads

Common Culture

Brands, movies,

stores and radio

Review

An American culture starts to emergeTechnologyTemporary Happy Times (for some)Economy out of controlChange Change Change!