Transcript What do you see that makes the 1920s look like a “roaring” time?

Look through pages 515-567 and answer the
questions at the top of your page:
What do you see that makes the 1920s
look like a “roaring” time?
Following difficult times, do you think most
people look for things that are familiar and
comfortable to them? Do most look for
new and different things? Explain your
thoughts. You may consider what you did
after a difficult time in your life.
The United States after WWI
1. President Harding promises a “return
to normalcy”: normalcy = isolationism
(stay out of foreign affairs)
2. urbanization leads to social tensions
(young, urban modernism vs.
old, rural traditionalism)
3. laissez-faire (hands-off) government
Let’s return
to normalcy.
To begin, answer the following
questions on your notes page:
How are the ideas and culture
of the city different than those
of small towns?
How are the ideas and culture
of the younger generation
different than those of the older
generation?
essential question:
How does modernism vs.
traditionalism define the
national culture beginning in the
1920s?
By the 1920s, over half of Americans live
in the cities.
this sets
the stage
for the
social
tensions of
the 1920s:
ideas and culture of the modern young,
urban America vs. ideas and culture of
the traditional older, rural America
(note colors)
examples:
Are the following traditionalist or modernist?
• likes isolationism = traditionalist
• wants to pursue
“reds” to “return to = traditionalist
normalcy”
• against Palmer Raids = modernist
• supports conviction
= traditionalist
of Sacco and
Vanzetti
• supports the quota
=
traditionalist
system
We will begin by noting some
basic information about each side
of the culture clash on your pages.
You are to add an additional note
at the bottom from the discussion,
videos, or text.
ISSUE: RACISM
• Ku Klux Klan reemerges, especially in rural
areas
• Marcus Garvey leads the “Back to Africa”
movement for blacks to find equality in
Africa
• Great Migration
competition for jobs
race riots
(white
traditionalists
attack new
black
population)
race riots (young blacks
rebel against
discrimination)
• NAACP and others attack discrimination
more aggressively using the law
video link
ISSUE: PROHIBITION
• older, rural
Americans
support prohibition
(18th Amendment)
• bootleggers illegally sold alcohol
• speakeasies were secret bars
• organized crime grows from selling illegal
alcohol
video link
ISSUE: ROLE OF WOMEN
• older, rural
Americans think
women should be
in the home raising
kids
• flappers with new fashions (shorter hair
and dresses) and more independent video link
ISSUE: FUNDAMENTALISM
• older, rural Americans supported
fundamentalism (strict interpretation of the
Bible)
So the Lord God caused
a deep sleep to fall upon
the man, and while he
slept took one of his ribs
and closed up its place
with flesh. 22 And the
rib that the Lord God
had taken from the man
he made into a woman
and brought her to the
man.
=
• Scopes trial challenges teaching evolution
in school (Tennessee = traditionalism;
Scopes = modernism)
• William Jennings Bryan attacks evolution
• Clarence Darrow defends evolution
Clarence
Darrow, left;
William
Jennings
Bryan, right
video link
What’s their story? Explain
what is going on in each of
the pictures below the picture.
example:
After a tough day of
chasing bootleggers,
these cops needed a beer
from the local speakeasy.
Listen to Louis
Armstrong’s song
“Heebie Jeebies” and
answer the following:
1. How is this song
“roaring?”
2. What do you think
“heebie jeebies” are?
3. Do you think this song
is more associated
with the young urban
population or the old
rural population in the
1920s America?
painting of Louis Armstrong by Leonid Afremov
essential question:
How did the 1920s change white
attitudes towards black culture?
The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance:
• The 1920s is commonly referred to as Jazz
Age because of the improvisational and
exciting energy of the time.
• Jazz originated in
New Orleans, but
would help to
define the Harlem
Renaissance in
New York.
• was the first time in
America that the white
population embraced the
art of African Americans
as true art
Skim pages
558-563 in the
textbook and list
more people
and art
associated with
the Harlem
Renaissance.
literature of the Harlem Renaissance:
How do we see AfricanAmerican culture being
celebrated in the following
excerpts from Langston
Hughes poetry?
“In a Harlem cabaret
Six long-headed jazzers play.
A dancing girl whose eyes are bold
Lifts high a dress of silken gold.”
“The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.”
“Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!
Y-e-a-h!”
art of the Harlem Renaissance:
How do we see AfricanAmerican culture being
celebrated in the following
art?
Answer the following on your notes sheet
Does the media (radio, music, movies,
etc.) do more to show our culture or does
the media do more to shape our culture?
Explain.
essential question:
How did the media help to create a
national culture in the 1920s?
1920s Consumer Culture
• U.S. becomes a society of consumers by
the 1920s
• middle class = who can afford goods (i.e.
radios, household appliances, cars)
1926 Ford Model T Tudor Sedan
• advertising expands, leads to more
buying
In the 1920s, advertising for Lysol disinfectant
started subtly suggesting that it could be used
as a contraceptive. Lysol offered booklets
explaining "What feminine hygiene really is" for
those not astute enough to realize that the
repeated claims to "kill germs" were meant to
be read as "kill sperm."
• music, magazines,
and “talkies” both
show and expand
culture (how we
dress, how we talk,
etc.)
• media presents heroes of individual,
superficial accomplishments (Babe Ruth,
Charles Lindbergh)
1920s Pictionary rules:
1. One person from the first team is chosen to
draw.
2. The team has one minute to guess which term
is being drawn. The person drawing may not:
• use letters or numbers of any kind.
• make any sounds.
3. Other teams can, rotating to the next group first,
guess the term if the drawing team does not.
4. The same person cannot draw twice.