1. Roaring 20's-jazz(music), sports, buying on credit, fashion, fads, movies
Jazz-
- Jazz age
- origin in New Orleans
- Louis Armstrong- trumpet player
- it was in Chicago where they mixed modern music with Jazz and it became famous
- the older people didn't like that, they said it would ruin the world.
- fast typo, songs you could dance too
Sports-
- the golden age of sports
- Babe Ruth in baseball
- Red Grange - famous football
- boxing was huge
- bobby jones- golf
- Bill Tilden-tennis
- radio helped sports
- cars- people started going to sport events
Buying on Credit
- new way to spend money
- buy now pay later
- made the 20's boom
- borrowed money
Fashion
- hats and beads were popular
- snugger dresses
- CoCo Channel - the little black dress
- men wore sweaters and suits
- Flappers- the loose dress and attitude
- Oxforb bags- baggy pants for men
- their ties and pants were shorter
Fads-
- board games
- jazz
- world records
- Charleston dance
- drinking illegally
- barn stroming
- airplane shows
Movies-
- silent
- horror
- Peter Pan
- talkies
2. Red Scare/Anti-immigration
- red- communist
- J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI when it started
- Palmer Raids- investigated anyone they thought was communist
- golden age of immigration 1880-1920
- anti-immigration of 1924
- emergency quota- put a quota on how many people could come from each conutry
- immigration was cut big time
- to make sure communist were not coming in
3. Planes and automobiles
4. Prohibition/Gangs
5. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
6. Women in the 20's
7. African-Americans in the 20's
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