1920's

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The Roaring 20's

The Roaring 20's

Al Capone

Famous People of the 20's

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Louis Armstrong

Henry Ford

After ww1 unions declined because they were seen as unamerican. Factories and life in general became clock-regulated instead of following the sun leavign the working forces coming from small rual towns that followed the sun confused and over worked .Work was grueling in the factories espesically for the children. During a christmas party a women tried to offer young girls candy but she later found out they had been working 7 am to 9 pm for 6 weeks and hated the sight and smell of sweets.

Factory During WWII

Fashion, Flappers , Freedom

During the 1920s fashion standard changed drastically however it was not as common as you thinkThough alot of women did adapt some aspects of the iconic "flapper" wardrobe into their daily lives and felt more free in diffrent aspects of their lives as well

The Roaring Twenties was an era in American history that was full of dramatic social, economic, and political change.In America, there was more people living in cities than farms, which was a first. The nation's total wealth doubled between 1920 and 1929, and the GNP expanded by 40% from 1922 to 1929.

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Life during the 20's

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Louis Armstrong

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• Louis Armstrong was the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artist in jazz history.
• He grew up in poverty in New Orleans, Louisiana, when jazz was still new.
• He worked odd jobs as a kid and sang in a boy's quartet.
• In 1913 he was sent to a Colored Waifs Home as a juvenile delinquent. There he learned how to play the cornet. He quickly became his passion. In his teens he learned to play jazz from listening to the pioneer jazz artists of the time.
• Armstrong rapidly advanced in music; he played in marching and jazz bands, quickly becoming skilled enough to replace a pioneer jazz artist in the Kid Ory band in around 1918 and in the early 1920's he was playing in Misissippi riverboat dance bands.
• From 1925-1928 he worked on his solo career, which made him come out on top as the first great jazz soloist.

Children were made to work around the clock in dangerous conditions for unliviable wages.

Children in factories

• By 1900 6% of the work force in the states were those under the age of 16
• Since they were small and didnt understand when to stand up for themselves they were seen as desirable workers
• Children and adults alike were constantly harming themselves during their shifts
• Since they were children they were seen as easily managable, cheap, and easy to replace.

• Al Capone was an American Prohibition-era gangster who was dominating organized crime in Chicago.
• He became one of the most famous gangster in the United States.
• As Prohibition started, more bootleg/underground operations started up. He became crime czar of Chicago: running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets.
• Al Capone ecpaded his territories by gunning down other rivaling gangs. He went into hiding after inadvetently killing McSwiggin while attacking other rivals.
• Capone's wealth in 1927 was estimated to be around $100 million.
• He was arrested outside of a Philidelphia theater in 1929 for possessing a conceled handgun, he was sentanced 1 year in prison. He recived many death threats from other inmates, he was then transfered to Philidelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary. There he served around 8 months before being released for good behavrior in 1930.

Al Capone

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Prohibition Era

During the 20's, while some freedoms were expanded, some were tightened up. In 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified. At 12:00am on January 16th, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar, and saloon in the United States, and the sale and production of "intoxicating liquors" (beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol) was banned, except for religious settings (communion during church services). Prohibition was put in place due to a big mass of the middle class, white Americans thinking this was the way to control the "unruly" immigrants.This didn't actually work, it just sent all alcohol consumption and production underground. Speakeasies emerged from prohibition. These were hidden clubs and bars that sold alcohol. Speakeasies were ran by bootleggers, racketeers, and organized crime figures, such as Al Capone, because they used them as a big part of their income.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• F. Scott Fitzgerad was an American short-story writer and novelist
• He is famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age and his novel The Great Gatsby (1925)
• In November 1917 he left Princeton to join the Army.
• He moved to New York with his fiance, Zelda. He got a job in advertisment paying $90 a month. Later Zelda called off the engagment and Fitzgerald retired to St. Paul, Minnesota to rewrite a novel he began at Princeton.
• In spring of 1920 he married Zelda and published his novel. This novel was This Side of Paradise, It is about a revelation of the new morality of the young during this time.
• This gave him fame that opened him up to magazines of literary prestige, such as Scriber's and The Saturday Evening Post. This grew his wealth for him and his wife, they quickly fell into their roles of wealth.

Henry Ford

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• Henry Ford was an American industrialist who revolutionized factory prodution with his assembly line method.

• In October 1908, the Model T was announced with Ford stating "I will Build a motor car for the great multitude".
• Ford and his engineers, after much experimentation, made a system that evolved by 1913-1914 in Ford's new plant. His new plant in Highland Park, Michigan, was able to build and assemble cars with precision and faster timing.
• WIth assembly lines they were able to completle a chassis every 93 minutes, before using this system they would produce a chassis every 728 minutes.
• This revolutionized factory prodution all over the country, this was helpful during the 20's because the prices for his cars were able to be lower and more people could afford them. More people being able to afford cars meant they could work jobs farther away from their homes.

Here pictures a little boy with injured cut hands. his name was Ralph

Children in factories

Another social tension during the 20's was racism and immigration. The Red Scare in 1919 was the fear that immigrants (and their offspring) had communist ideology that would harm the "perfect" America, this led to a widespread nativist and anti-immigrant hysteria among the masses. This fear of the masses led to the birth of an outrageously restrictive immigration law. The National Origins Act of 1924, set immigration quotas to excluded some people of Eastern European and Asian decent, so that more people of Northern European and Great Britain decent could immigrate to the United States. This was to allow more white people into the United States.After the Great Migration, some white Americans felt distressed from the inrease of Black culture during the Harlem Renaissance. From this the Ku Klux Klan grew in masses. By the mid 20's it was believed that the KKK had around 2 million members, members of the KKK believed that they were restoring the "values and perfection" of the United States by lynching/murdering African Americans.

Racism and Immigration

Jazz music quickly grew during the 20's with more households owning radios and cars. With more people owning cars, more people went to clubs. Many jazz bands played at venues such as the Savoy and the Cotton Club in New York. The Cotton Club was a whites only club, who didn't let colored people come in besides jazz musicians who were performing. With more radios in homes, jazz music was being played in homes across the nation. Some older people disliked jazz music, stating it was "vulgar", while man younger people thought of jazz music highly and loved the freedom they felt from it.

The Jazz Age

Famous Jazz Musicians of the 20's

• Louis Armstrong
• King Oliver
• Paul Whiteman
• Benny Goodman

During the prohibiton women bobbed their hair, wore flapper dresses, and felt more sexually "free" in their self expression, well atleast thats what most thought

Flapper girls

They are considered the first generation of independent women, they pushed boundaries giving them more political, sexual and economic freedomsDuring ww1 many women entered the work force and were reluctant to give up that freedom after No one knows for sure where the term flapper came from but it followed short after ww1, its slang and refers usually to a young energetic woman

Margaret sanger is one of three women who founded planned parenthood in the 20th century when womens rights were in the first mane stride of activism.

Margaret Sanger

• Coined the term "birth control"
• One of the early feminists
• Made many stride towards womens right to health care regarding birth control and its legalization
• Her name was recently removed from planned parenthood due to racism on her part unclear if it was minor or major but either way not cool