Jazz-
4 main guys: Paul Whiteman, Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson.
Jazz was rebellious.
Whitman- People saw him dancing while he was directing so people began dancing so that brought the swing age.
Cotton club was the most famous speak easy (illegal bar) in Harlem which was a black town were only whites were allowed to go see.
Sports-
Babe Ruth- baseball player. Red sox and Yankees. 1924 set the record for most homeruns in a season which was 60.
Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney – Boxing
Bobby Jones- Golf
Bill Tilden- Tennis
Red Grange-Football
Pro basketball- Celtics were the biggest at the time.
The car came so people could travel to games. And the radio so they could hear the games.
Fads-
Jazz
Barn Storming- Air shows.
Dancing the Charleston
Flag pole sitting- Record: Alvin Kelly Sitting on the flag pole for 48days.
Setting records.
Mahjong
Movies-
Big Producers:
Warner Brothers
Paramount
RKO
MGM
20th Century Fox
Disney
Most Famous People:
Clara Bo
Mary Pickford
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
The Marx Brothers
Harry Houdini
Red Scare-
If you weren't doing your job or were protesting you were accused of being a communist.
Period of time after WWI when the US was feared of becoming a communist country. Joe McCarthy. (McCarthyism)
If you were accused of being a communist you were put on a black list were you would never work again
It is similar to the Witch trials. If you denied it then you were a communist.
Pointed at Europeans and Asians.
Sacco and Vanzetti. They were Catholic immigrants who were well known anarchists.
Planes-
Barn storming.
First person to fly across the Atlantic non-stop in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Amelia Earhart First women to fly across the Atlantic but she disappeared during the flight.
Automobiles-
At first they were just for richer people until buying on credit became possible.
Henry Ford created the cheaper cars that everyone could purchase. Model T.
Route 66. First trans-continental highway
Prohibition-
18th amendment. Banned the sale, transportation, or making of it. It never said you couldn't drink it.
21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment.
It was known as the noble experiment.
Gangs-
They started up after prohibition.
They controlled speak-easys and gambling centers to make money.
Al Capone-Scarface. Most famous gangster of them all. He killed a lot of people. Police would try to arrest him for all the stuff he was doing but he would just pay them off. They finally got him on not paying taxes. First prison he payed off the guard to continue running his business so they moved him to Alkatraz. He had syphilis from his childhood which finally hit him which is what killed him.
Women in the 20's-
Gained voting, could go to college, could get men's jobs. Flapper girls came around. 19th amendment passed so they could vote. Greens burrow- First all women's dorm. Women were always treated like crap. They started going out more, drinking and smoking.
African Americans in the 20's-
Harlem Renaissance- African American culture was being re-born in Harlem which was a part of New York City.
NAACP- African American Advancement movement
KKK- Ku Klutz Klan.
Great Migration- Time when the African Americans migrated from the south to the northern cities. A lot of race riots broke out. They had migrated north for the job opportunities.
Inventions-
Lie detectors
Bulldozer
Liquid fueled rocket
Traffic light
Warren G. Harding-
Died in office.
Tea Pot Dome Wyoming scandal.
Promised to return to normalcy.
Calvin Coolidge-
Positives:
Lowered taxes by like 6 million.
Immigration act.
Lowered unemployment to 2%.
Negatives:
He believed that if the government did nothing the they would do better. He believed that if the world sat still and do anything 99.9% of the worlds problems would disappear.
Republican Philosophy-
Trickle-down theory- Give tax cuts to the wealthy then eventually it will trickle down to the poor.
Laissez-faire- Government should stay out of business.
Rugged individualism- People needed help, people who had no money. He told them that it wasn't the governments job.
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