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WARM-UP DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL CERTAIN SUBSTANCES IF THEY HAVE HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS? WHY OR WHY NOT?
CHAPTER 13 LIFE IN THE 20’S
Popularity in 1925 Rank Male name Female name 1 Robert Mary 2 John Dorothy 3 William Betty 4 James Helen 5 Charles Margaret 6 George Ruth 7 Joseph Virginia 8 Richard Doris 9 Edward Mildred 10 Donald Elizabeth 11 Thomas Frances 12 Frank Evelyn 13 Paul Anna 14 Harold Jean 15 Raymond Alice 16 Walter Marie 17 Jack Shirley 18 Henry Lois 19 Kenneth Irene 20 Arthur Gloria
CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE 13.1
CHANGING LIFESTYLES  Rural v. Urban society 1922-1929 : 2 million people moved to cities per year What happens  in 1920?  More ppl live in urban than rural areas How might  attitudes  change?
Prohibition -18 th  amendment “ Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.” What is banned? What is not?
WAYS AROUND IT Homemade wine  and hard cider not illegal Religious wine  is allowed (Number of “rabbis” increases 10x - including Irish and African-American) Go out of country  –  Bahamas benefits financially http://www.wordtravels.com/images/map/Bahamas_map.jpg
Speakeasies – Illegal clubs where one needed a password Bootlegging – illegally manufacturing alcohol  “hooch”  “moonshine” Increase in organized crime due to prohibition Al Capone earned over  $60 million a year http://www.life.com/image/3202953/in-gallery/42092/prohibition-when-booze-ruled
MEDICINAL LIQUOR  Doctors could prescribe 3 pints of liquor a month Walgreens  1913 - 12 stores  Mid 1920s - 44 stores  1930 - 397 stores
Impossible to enforce due to huge borders and underfunding 1 enforcement agent per 70,000 people States spent 1/8th of $ on prohibition as on fish and game enforcement
 
 
December 5,1933 – The “Great Experiment” ends 21 st  amendment repeals the18 th
Fundamentalism v. Science Fundamentalist: strict interpretation of the Bible  What big issue might they disagree over? CHANGING IDEAS AND THEORIES
JOHN SCOPES Biology teacher Broke Tennessee law banning teaching of evolution Arrested
SCOPES “MONKEY” TRIAL The attorney for Scopes Famous Lawyer Agnostic Special prosecutor Fundamentalist Failed three times as Presidential candidate Trial attracted  large crowds Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan
 
 
 
 
Scopes convicted fined $100 State Supreme Court reversed decision Example of how new scientific theories and fundamentalist religious beliefs clashed highlighted the struggle between science and religion in schools
LEFT SIDE ACTIVITY 43 LEFT Draw a picture of Scopes, Darrow, and Bryan. Give each a thought bubble describing their role in the trial.
THE TWENTIES WOMAN  13.2
The flapper – new style for women in 1920’s Dresses above or at knee, waistless dress, short dark hair,  smoking, drinking, dancing, saw men as equals  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uCeLmSOjzE/S8SnNS7d8VI/AAAAAAAAAFs/vYP1--dA-jA/s1600/a_flapper.jpg
Not all young women were flappers More a symbol of rebellious youth Many protested the image
Female factory workers replaced by men returning from WWI “ Women's professions” – teachers, nurses, typists, secretaries, clerks Lower salaries, no management opportunities  CHANGING WORK
CHANGING FAMILY What might happen to birthrate as nation urbanizes?  Declines due to economy and  birth control information
CHANGING HOME
Marriages based on Focused on raising children  and being a family Children attend  most of the day instead of work Teens spend less time with CHANGING LIVES
WARM-UP Think about the first time you saw a new  and cool technology.  What was it? How did you react?
EDUCATION & POPULAR CULTURE 13.3
SCHOOLING & LITERACY Four times as many high school students in 1920’s HS not just for college bound anymore Literacy increases dramatically Newspapers and magazines are widely read
RADIO Listeners “tune in” for comedy, news,  music, variety shows, drama Now listeners could hear news as it happened, hear the President’s voice, listen to the World Series live http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm
CHARLES LINDBERGH Plane – Spirit of St. Louis 1927 flies from Long Island, __________  to ___________ Flew ________ without stopping Flight took _____ hours Became national hero Famous kidnapping http://www.census.gov/history/img/StLouis1920s.jpg
CHARLES LINDBERGH Plane – Spirit of St. Louis 1927 flies from Long Island, __________  to ___________ Flew ________ without stopping Flight took _____ hours Became national hero Famous kidnapping http://www.census.gov/history/img/StLouis1920s.jpg
1903 – “First” Narrative (tells a story) –  The Great Train Robbery  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY   Buster Keaton – Physical Comedian  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCDXCtREOXI   1927 – First “Talkie” (movie with dialogue) –  Jazz Singer MOVIES http://www.annyas.com/screenshots/updates/the-great-train-robbery-1903/   http://www.impawards.com/1927/jazz_singer.html
1928 – First w/ sound effects, music, and dialogue –  Steamboat Willie  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
George Gershwin –  Fuses elements of Jazz with classical music (new sound) “ Rhapsody in Blue”  – Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3  http://www.vinylrevinyl.com/record-shop/classical-vinyl/george-gershwin/
Georgia O’Keeffe- Popular Artist http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=s&ID=112
WRITERS OF THE 1920’S F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Sinclair Lewis Babbitt  First American to win Nobel Prize in Lit. Ernest Hemingway  The Sun Also Rises  Farewell to Arms http://www.everseradio.com/e-verse-top-100-cool-novels-79-babbitt-by-sinclair-lewis-1922/   http://img.neoseeker.com/boxview.php?iid=13293&eid=32931&type=front   Many moved to Paris and became  the “Lost Generation”
42 LEFT SUPER VOCAB – QUIZ FRIDAY Bootlegging Moonshine Prohibition Speakeasy Scopes Trial Also on Quiz Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Flapper
Warm-up What or where is Harlem? What is a Renaissance?
42 Left Super Vocab – Quiz Friday Bootlegging Moonshine Prohibition Speakeasy Scopes Trial Also on Quiz Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Flapper
Harlem Renaissance 13.4
The Great Migration moved many African Americans north NAACP --Anti-lynching main target Led by James Weldon Johnson – poet and lawyer http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/jwjohnson.html
My City  by James Weldon Johnson When I come down to sleep death's endless night, The threshold of the unknown dark to cross, What to me then will be the keenest loss, When this bright world blurs on my fading sight? Will it be that no more I shall see the trees Or smell the flowers or hear the singing birds Or watch the flashing streams or patient herds? No, I am sure it will be none of these. But, ah! Manhattan's sights and sounds, her smells, Her crowds, her throbbing force, the thrill that comes From being of her a part, her subtle spells, Her shining towers, her avenues, her slums-- O God! the stark, unutterable pity, To be dead, and never again behold my city! http://eiffel.ilt.columbia.edu/teachers/cluster_teachers/Dick_Parsons/Cluster_2/Amy's%20web%20Quest/james_weldon_johnson.htm
UNIA  (Univ. Negro Improvement Assoc.) Marcus Garvey Believed African Americans  should build a separate society “ Back to Africa Movement” http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_bio.htm
Harlem Renaissance  Harlem – Neighborhood in NYC “ Capital of Black America” Literary and artistic flowering began in 1920’s
Literature Langston Hughes Best known poet of Harlem Renaissance Many poems have rhythmic feel of jazz or blues http://www.afropoets.net/langstonhughes.html
Bessie Smith 1895-1937 “ Empress of the Blues” Most successful female Blues singer of 1920’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo&feature=related   http://www.vinylrevinyl.com/record-shop/blues-vinyl/bessie-smith/
The Weary Blues  Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,      I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light      He did a lazy sway . . .      He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody.      O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.      Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man's soul.      O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan--      "Ain't got nobody in all this world,        Ain't got nobody but ma self.        I's gwine to quit ma frownin'        And put ma troubles on the shelf.“ Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more--      "I got the Weary Blues        And I can't be satisfied.        Got the Weary Blues        And can't be satisfied--        I ain't happy no mo'        And I wish that I had died.“ And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
Paul Robeson http://www.africawithin.com/bios/paul_robeson.htm   Singer and actor Son of former slave Performed in Shakespeare’s  Othello Still, experienced racism in US
Famous whites-only Harlem nightclub visited by jazz fans Cab Calloway – famous performer and bandleader who helped popularize “scat” singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wOPt-2PeE&feature=related
Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 “ Satchmo” Famous band leader and trumpeter  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Duke Ellington 1899-1974  Pianist Composer Led his “big band” http://dukeellington.com/videomultimedia.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ggcQk67Mco&feature=related  http://www.schooltube.com/video/44e6255641a8a806988c/Duke%20Ellington

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Chp 13 all sections

  • 1. WARM-UP DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL CERTAIN SUBSTANCES IF THEY HAVE HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS? WHY OR WHY NOT?
  • 2. CHAPTER 13 LIFE IN THE 20’S
  • 3. Popularity in 1925 Rank Male name Female name 1 Robert Mary 2 John Dorothy 3 William Betty 4 James Helen 5 Charles Margaret 6 George Ruth 7 Joseph Virginia 8 Richard Doris 9 Edward Mildred 10 Donald Elizabeth 11 Thomas Frances 12 Frank Evelyn 13 Paul Anna 14 Harold Jean 15 Raymond Alice 16 Walter Marie 17 Jack Shirley 18 Henry Lois 19 Kenneth Irene 20 Arthur Gloria
  • 4. CHANGING WAYS OF LIFE 13.1
  • 5. CHANGING LIFESTYLES Rural v. Urban society 1922-1929 : 2 million people moved to cities per year What happens in 1920? More ppl live in urban than rural areas How might attitudes change?
  • 6. Prohibition -18 th amendment “ Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.” What is banned? What is not?
  • 7. WAYS AROUND IT Homemade wine and hard cider not illegal Religious wine is allowed (Number of “rabbis” increases 10x - including Irish and African-American) Go out of country – Bahamas benefits financially http://www.wordtravels.com/images/map/Bahamas_map.jpg
  • 8. Speakeasies – Illegal clubs where one needed a password Bootlegging – illegally manufacturing alcohol “hooch” “moonshine” Increase in organized crime due to prohibition Al Capone earned over $60 million a year http://www.life.com/image/3202953/in-gallery/42092/prohibition-when-booze-ruled
  • 9. MEDICINAL LIQUOR Doctors could prescribe 3 pints of liquor a month Walgreens 1913 - 12 stores Mid 1920s - 44 stores 1930 - 397 stores
  • 10. Impossible to enforce due to huge borders and underfunding 1 enforcement agent per 70,000 people States spent 1/8th of $ on prohibition as on fish and game enforcement
  • 11.  
  • 12.  
  • 13. December 5,1933 – The “Great Experiment” ends 21 st amendment repeals the18 th
  • 14. Fundamentalism v. Science Fundamentalist: strict interpretation of the Bible What big issue might they disagree over? CHANGING IDEAS AND THEORIES
  • 15. JOHN SCOPES Biology teacher Broke Tennessee law banning teaching of evolution Arrested
  • 16. SCOPES “MONKEY” TRIAL The attorney for Scopes Famous Lawyer Agnostic Special prosecutor Fundamentalist Failed three times as Presidential candidate Trial attracted large crowds Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan
  • 17.  
  • 18.  
  • 19.  
  • 20.  
  • 21. Scopes convicted fined $100 State Supreme Court reversed decision Example of how new scientific theories and fundamentalist religious beliefs clashed highlighted the struggle between science and religion in schools
  • 22. LEFT SIDE ACTIVITY 43 LEFT Draw a picture of Scopes, Darrow, and Bryan. Give each a thought bubble describing their role in the trial.
  • 24. The flapper – new style for women in 1920’s Dresses above or at knee, waistless dress, short dark hair, smoking, drinking, dancing, saw men as equals http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uCeLmSOjzE/S8SnNS7d8VI/AAAAAAAAAFs/vYP1--dA-jA/s1600/a_flapper.jpg
  • 25. Not all young women were flappers More a symbol of rebellious youth Many protested the image
  • 26. Female factory workers replaced by men returning from WWI “ Women's professions” – teachers, nurses, typists, secretaries, clerks Lower salaries, no management opportunities CHANGING WORK
  • 27. CHANGING FAMILY What might happen to birthrate as nation urbanizes? Declines due to economy and birth control information
  • 29. Marriages based on Focused on raising children and being a family Children attend most of the day instead of work Teens spend less time with CHANGING LIVES
  • 30. WARM-UP Think about the first time you saw a new and cool technology. What was it? How did you react?
  • 31. EDUCATION & POPULAR CULTURE 13.3
  • 32. SCHOOLING & LITERACY Four times as many high school students in 1920’s HS not just for college bound anymore Literacy increases dramatically Newspapers and magazines are widely read
  • 33. RADIO Listeners “tune in” for comedy, news, music, variety shows, drama Now listeners could hear news as it happened, hear the President’s voice, listen to the World Series live http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm
  • 34. CHARLES LINDBERGH Plane – Spirit of St. Louis 1927 flies from Long Island, __________ to ___________ Flew ________ without stopping Flight took _____ hours Became national hero Famous kidnapping http://www.census.gov/history/img/StLouis1920s.jpg
  • 35. CHARLES LINDBERGH Plane – Spirit of St. Louis 1927 flies from Long Island, __________ to ___________ Flew ________ without stopping Flight took _____ hours Became national hero Famous kidnapping http://www.census.gov/history/img/StLouis1920s.jpg
  • 36. 1903 – “First” Narrative (tells a story) – The Great Train Robbery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY Buster Keaton – Physical Comedian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCDXCtREOXI 1927 – First “Talkie” (movie with dialogue) – Jazz Singer MOVIES http://www.annyas.com/screenshots/updates/the-great-train-robbery-1903/ http://www.impawards.com/1927/jazz_singer.html
  • 37. 1928 – First w/ sound effects, music, and dialogue – Steamboat Willie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  • 38. George Gershwin – Fuses elements of Jazz with classical music (new sound) “ Rhapsody in Blue” – Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 http://www.vinylrevinyl.com/record-shop/classical-vinyl/george-gershwin/
  • 39. Georgia O’Keeffe- Popular Artist http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=s&ID=112
  • 40. WRITERS OF THE 1920’S F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Sinclair Lewis Babbitt First American to win Nobel Prize in Lit. Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises Farewell to Arms http://www.everseradio.com/e-verse-top-100-cool-novels-79-babbitt-by-sinclair-lewis-1922/ http://img.neoseeker.com/boxview.php?iid=13293&eid=32931&type=front Many moved to Paris and became the “Lost Generation”
  • 41. 42 LEFT SUPER VOCAB – QUIZ FRIDAY Bootlegging Moonshine Prohibition Speakeasy Scopes Trial Also on Quiz Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Flapper
  • 42. Warm-up What or where is Harlem? What is a Renaissance?
  • 43. 42 Left Super Vocab – Quiz Friday Bootlegging Moonshine Prohibition Speakeasy Scopes Trial Also on Quiz Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Flapper
  • 45. The Great Migration moved many African Americans north NAACP --Anti-lynching main target Led by James Weldon Johnson – poet and lawyer http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/jwjohnson.html
  • 46. My City by James Weldon Johnson When I come down to sleep death's endless night, The threshold of the unknown dark to cross, What to me then will be the keenest loss, When this bright world blurs on my fading sight? Will it be that no more I shall see the trees Or smell the flowers or hear the singing birds Or watch the flashing streams or patient herds? No, I am sure it will be none of these. But, ah! Manhattan's sights and sounds, her smells, Her crowds, her throbbing force, the thrill that comes From being of her a part, her subtle spells, Her shining towers, her avenues, her slums-- O God! the stark, unutterable pity, To be dead, and never again behold my city! http://eiffel.ilt.columbia.edu/teachers/cluster_teachers/Dick_Parsons/Cluster_2/Amy's%20web%20Quest/james_weldon_johnson.htm
  • 47. UNIA (Univ. Negro Improvement Assoc.) Marcus Garvey Believed African Americans should build a separate society “ Back to Africa Movement” http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_bio.htm
  • 48. Harlem Renaissance Harlem – Neighborhood in NYC “ Capital of Black America” Literary and artistic flowering began in 1920’s
  • 49. Literature Langston Hughes Best known poet of Harlem Renaissance Many poems have rhythmic feel of jazz or blues http://www.afropoets.net/langstonhughes.html
  • 50. Bessie Smith 1895-1937 “ Empress of the Blues” Most successful female Blues singer of 1920’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo&feature=related http://www.vinylrevinyl.com/record-shop/blues-vinyl/bessie-smith/
  • 51. The Weary Blues Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,      I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light      He did a lazy sway . . .      He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody.      O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.      Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man's soul.      O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan--      "Ain't got nobody in all this world,        Ain't got nobody but ma self.        I's gwine to quit ma frownin'        And put ma troubles on the shelf.“ Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more--      "I got the Weary Blues        And I can't be satisfied.        Got the Weary Blues        And can't be satisfied--        I ain't happy no mo'        And I wish that I had died.“ And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
  • 52. Paul Robeson http://www.africawithin.com/bios/paul_robeson.htm Singer and actor Son of former slave Performed in Shakespeare’s Othello Still, experienced racism in US
  • 53. Famous whites-only Harlem nightclub visited by jazz fans Cab Calloway – famous performer and bandleader who helped popularize “scat” singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wOPt-2PeE&feature=related
  • 54. Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 “ Satchmo” Famous band leader and trumpeter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
  • 55. Duke Ellington 1899-1974 Pianist Composer Led his “big band” http://dukeellington.com/videomultimedia.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ggcQk67Mco&feature=related http://www.schooltube.com/video/44e6255641a8a806988c/Duke%20Ellington