20's Entertainment:
*Bobbed hair, heavy make-up, shorts skirts, sheer silk stockings, cigarettes, alcohol, dancing, flappers, bobbed hair
*Middle class, single, young, steady economic jobs, jazz clubs, vaudeville shows, carefree/liberated
*Fashion- Cloche hats, complex jewelry, sky high heels, no hips, rising hemline, floral prints, pastel colors, beads and feathers, "boyish look", Coco Chanel
*Dancing- new fox-trot introduced post-war, the Charleston became popular after a musical (runnin' Wild), Texas Tommy (African American, San Francisco-NYC), Wall street crash ended jazz era.
*Jazz- Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Big House Band
* Harlem Renaissance- Bessie Smith: Express of the blues, Columbia Records (1923), Swing Era, Tragic Death, Soulful & Powerful, Josephine Baker: Banana Dress, Chorus girl (19), Sex symbol (Nude), Marilyn Monroe, Exotic Dancing, Goofy/ Cross-eyed photos
*Sports- Baseball and Boxing: Babe Ruth: Most impressive career, Hard-drinking, Womanizer, 714 TOTAL home-runs, Jack Dempsey: Fast combos, blazing knockouts, pine gum, brine-soaked face
*Pro Football: College football popular, August 20, 1920 (APFA to NFL), Jim Thorpe (First President), 4 original teams (Akron pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Dayton Triangles)
*Pro Basketball: ABL created 1925, NY Celtics, Affordability
*Broadway: Biggest industry in NYC, Gamblers, Gangsters, Celebrities, Chorus girls, Typical hangout, Slang "tough broad" or "doll", Love affairs
*Newspaper: Damon Runyon
*Gangster: Owen Madden
*Hollywood- Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson
Strike
*September 21, 1919 to January 8, 1920
*Ohioan Led
*Working Conditions (long hours, low wages, poor environment)
*Walkout of 350,000 workers
*Failure for workers
*Immigrants portrayed wrongly
*Norman Z. Foster (Led Violence and Deaths)
Movements and Acts
*Temperance Movement (Social movement against consumption of alcohol, promotes abstinence, movements were mostly run by women)
*Violence Act (Written to enforce
Gangsters
*Often Controlled (Liquor Sales, Gambling, Prostitution)
*Illegally Organized (Bootlegging, Speakeasies)
*Prohibition (Instead of reducing crime it created a black market)
Al "Scarface" Capone
*During Prohibition Era (Leader of Chicago Mafia, Multi million dollar Chicago operation)
*Start of becoming a Gangster (Got expelled at 14 for hitting a female teacher, Met Jonny Torrio)
*Got arrested in 1931 (Income-tax evasion)
Teapot Dome
*Secretary sent to prison
*Navy oil reserves sent to operators
*Oil companies drilled on federal land
*Hundreds of thousands of dollars
Calvin Coolidge
*Vice President for Harding
*Wins 1924 Election
*"The business of America is business"
*No connection with scandals
Democratic Nominee
*William Gibbs (Rural)
*William wanted prohibition
*Alfred E. Smith (Urban)
Robert la Follette
*Against bribes
*Hated corrupt government
*Progressive movement
*Helped expose Teapot Dome
*Died in 1925
*His family carried out his legacy
Calvin Coolidge's Accomplishments
*Kept US out of League of Nations
*Cut more taxes
*Kept government out of the way
Alfred Smith
*Democrats wanted Urban states
*Wanted to repeal prohibition
* America was anti-catholic
*Cost him southern states
Herbert Hoover
*Never ran for office before
*From Iowa
*In food administration
*Part of WWI relief efforts
*Republicans were on a roll
*They took credit for the 1920's prosperity
Hoover's Accomplishments
*Known for Stock Market Crash
*Blamed for Great Depression
* Did his best to stop it
*Started more public projects
*Lending institutions put in place
Economy
*GDP 6,500-8,700
*2016: GDP- 51,486
*Electricity impacted inventions
*Automobile impacted lifestyle
*Mass production of automobiles and appliances
*Increased available jobs
*Buying on Credit
*"Buy now, Pay later"
*Consumers could buy all new appliances
*Debt doubled between 20's and 30's
Stock Market Crash
*In 1929 production had declined
*Unemployment has risen
*Stock prices didn't reflect this
Stock Market Crash Causes
*People had too much debt (Buying on credit)
*Businesses didn't have money
*Tariffs didn't allow enough money in
The Trial
*Each day's proceeding was opened with prayer
After the Trial
*5 days after the trial, William Jennings Bryan died
*People all over started challenging the Butler Act
*The law was repealed in 1976
Model T and the Automobile
*October 1st 1908
*Cost was $850 ($18,000)
*Cheapest ever sold was $260
Model A
*Started in 1927-31
*Riots
*Different styles
*1930-1932 truck
Route 66
*Chicago- Los Angeles
*It's plan started in 1916
*Got revised in 1921
*The government got in and helped in 1925
*Started the Highway System
Trickle Down Theory
*Benefit the people
*Companies expand
Laissez-Faire
*Hands Off Business
Rugged Individualism
*Don't rely on government hand outs
Normalcy
*Isolation
Airplanes in the 1920's
*Mail carrying
Rural vs. Urban
*1920 Census- 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
*1922-1929- More than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
*Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social
Prohibition
*At first saloons closed and drunkenness went down
Bootlegging
*Made or transported alcohol
Moonshine
*Alcohol made secretly in home made stills
*Several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during the 1920's
Flapper Girls
*Women are equal to men
*Not all women in the 1920's were flappers
Stock Market Cause 1929
*Stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value-watered stock prices
*Over-speculation during the 1920's (Led to watered stock)
*"Buy on Margin" (Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices)
*Over production of goods
*Uneven distribution of wealth
*Too much borrowing from banks
*The Federal Reserve increased interest rates
*Lack of government regulation
1930's
What caused the Great Depression?
*Largest economy
*The stock market crash
*Domino effect
Baseball
*Favorite sport but less fans
*Negro league > gained attention
*George Herman Ruth Jr.
*Lou Gehrig
Basketball
*Rules changed so games would go faster
*American Basketball League fell during the depression
*39 years old in the 1930's
*National Basketball League formed in 1938
*women's basketball was popular
*Glenn Roberts
Boxing
*2nd most popular sport
*Heavy betting
*Joe Louis
*Henry Armstrong
*Weight Classes
Football
*October 22, 1939- Broadcasted on television for the first time
*The NFL decreased by 10 years
*The idea of drafting adopted from Bert Bell
*The first draft took place in 1936
*Bill Hewitt
Wayne Millner
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