Transcript The 1920s - Kettering High School

The 1920s
The Roaring
Twenties
Life in the Jazz Age
The Roaring Twenties
Rural VS. Urban Society
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Rural
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Agricultural
Small towns and farms
Conservative Values
Strong links to family and
church
Church set moral
standards
Farmers suffer
financially… Why?
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Urban
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People begin to move
into cities in the 1920s
 N.Y. = 5.6 million
 Chicago= 3 million
 Why did cities grow so
quickly?
Freedom from families
and church leads to
what?
The Harlem Renaissance and the
Jazz Age
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Where had African Americans moved during and
after WWI? Why?
Harlem
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1920s: Population grows from 152,000 to 330,000
Overcrowding, unemployment, and poverty are eclipsed by
the rich cultural movement known as the Harlem
Renaissance.
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
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Jazz is born in the early 20th
century in New Orleans
Joe Oliver and his Creole Jazz
band move north and bring jazz
with them
Trumpet player Louis
Armstrong is part of the band
and will become the most
important and influential
musician in the history of jazz.
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Harlem Renaissance is above
all a literary movement
Writers express pride in their
African American culture and
heritage
Langston Hughes is the
movement’s best known poet
His poems often move to the
tempo of jazz or the blues.
“ I, Too, Sing America”
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-I, too, am America.
Women in the 1920s
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In the rebellious, pleasure loving air of the
1920s, many women begin to assert their
independence.
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What rights do women have before the 1920s?
A New Life for Women
The flapper: emancipated woman
who embraced new fashions
and urban attitudes
Women get new job opportunities
Society begins to view marriage as
more of an equal partnership
The 19th Amendment is ratified in 1920
Flappers
American Society
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Schools
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From 1914 to 1926: Enrollment goes from 1
million to 4 million
Began to focus on college prep
Had to meet needs of growing immigrant students
Expanding news coverage
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Literacy is increased by widespread education
Radio comes of age
New Heroes
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More money and leisure time= need for
entertainment
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Sports
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Babe Ruth becomes known as the Sultan of Swat
Jack Dempsey reigns supreme in the boxing ring
Red Grange (a.k.a. The Galloping Ghost) and Knute
Rockne’s Fighting Irish make college football popular
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim
across the English Channel
America’s Most Beloved Hero
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Charles Lindbergh is
America’s Golden Boy
Movies, Theater and More
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Films: By 1925, movies are America’s 4th
largest industry
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Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow, and Rudolph
Valentino rise to stardom in silent movies
1927 The Jazz Singer- America’s first film with
sound
1928 Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie
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George Gershwin establishes himself as
America’s foremost modern composer
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Painter Georgia O’Keefe begins her career
F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about the life of the
wealthy, while Ernest Hemingway condemns
the glorification of war.
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The Charleston