20s Blog Discussions:
Jazz music: Nickname- the jazz age. Four main guys- Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Handerson. Popular because it was rebellious, something to dance to. Led to the swing age in the 30s. Cotton Club- famous speak easy in NYC.
Sports: Babe Ruth- best baseball player of all time, most famous playing for the Yankees. Jack Dempsey- boxer. Gene Tunny- Boxer. Bobby Jones- golfer. Bill Tilden- tennis player. Red Grange- football player. Radios made sports popular because people could follow sports.
Buying on credit: made the economy in the 20s boom. Buy now pay later.
Fashion: women- flapper dresses (more comfortable, looser, frilly, sequins, to the knees), short hair (bob), little hats, looser shorter clothing, many women did not dress like the flappers, dressed more for sports (started wearing shorts). Men- more laid back, big baggy pants, fedoras, wingtip shoes, two-toned shoes, double-breasted suits, high-water pants, short ties.
Fads: Jazz, barnstorming, dancing, flag pole sitting, trying to set world records.
Movies: warner brothers, paramont studios, RKO, MGM, the 20th century Fox, walt disney- first mickey mouse. 800 films a year back then. actors/actresses- greta garbo, clara bo, mary pickford, charlie chaplin, douglass fairbanks, rudolph valentino, the marks brothers. harry houdini- famous magician.
Red Scare/Anti-Immigration: started in 1919, where people were scared of communism and people were being accused of being communist. people were scared that the bushevick revolution would happen in america. the gov't
Planes: used mostly for entertainment/ barnstorming. charles lindbergh- first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic ocean. amelia earhart- first woman to fly across the atlantic and first woman who tried to fly around the world, but got lost and died.
Automobiles- became popular in the twenties because they were made cheaper by using assembly lines and ford offered buying on credit (buy now pay later)
Prohibition- outlawing alochol because women didnt want their husbands to drink, workers wouldnt work correctly, afterwards crime rate shot up
Gangs- see assigned blog 8.
Women in the 20s- gained voting rights-19th amendment, began to go to college and get jobs that men usually had. flapper girls.
African Americans- good decade, great migration- where african americans migrated from the south to the northern citites, north wasnt very inviting. harlem renaissance- african american culture was being reborn in harlem, a part of new york city, music, sports, groups for black people. NAACP- national association for the advancement of colored people. KKK re-emerged in the 1920s.
Inventions- first lie dector, first bull dozer, first liquid fueled rocket, traffic light.
Warren G. Harding- died before his term was up. best known for the tea pot scandal- people sold public land to big business that was supposed to be set aside.
Calvin Coolidge- lowered taxes, lowered the US debt. created the immigration act of '24. unemployment dropped a lot. extremely popular president.
Republican Philosophy in the Twenties-
*Rugged Individualism- individuals rely on the Gov't for help, think people need to help themselves.
*laissez-faire-gov't should stay out of business
*trickle-down theory- give tax cuts to the rich and it will eventually get down to help the rest of the people through better wages, job opportunities, etc. takes time.
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Sem Test
Q1: Eighth Grade stuff- Ch. 1-4
Q2: Late 18 early 1900s- Ch 5-8
Q3: Progressives- Ch. 9 define, stuff that's still around today 16-19 amendments, FTC- broke up monopolies. FRS.
Q4: US deal with the world in 18 and 1900s - Ch. 10. war with spain over cuba, diplomacies, how we dealt with other countries.
Q5: World War 1 impact- Ch. 11 casualties, costs, germany's depression
Q6: 1920s- Ch. 12. womens and African americans rights, buying on credit led to debt which led to great depression caused by people not buying things. red scare.
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