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AMERICAN HISTORY 1920’S PROJECT

Neyzer Torres

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Radio

radio was able to bridge the gap in American culture from coast to coast. It was more effective than print media for sharing thoughts, culture, language, style, and more. For this reason, the importance of radio was more than just entertainment, radio marked a major change in the way Americans communicated. Once radios became widespread and affordable, they connected people in ways never before possible. By the 1920s, a few decades after Marconi's first broadcast, half of urban families owned a radio. More than six million stations had been built.

communication media

advertising

is an advertisement or advertisement in a public medium that promotes a product, service, or event or announces a job vacancy which in the 1920s, The advertisements that bombard the American public contained information that encouraged them to purchase new consumer goods, such as cars, vacuum cleaners and washing machines.

industry

Many 1920s ads created associations between a product and such desirable traits as youthfulness, attractiveness, intelligence, and popularity. These ads encouraged Americans to buy newly developed or "improved" items that they had never before considered necessary.

The Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in the southern United States in 1865, at the end of the civil war, with the purpose of defending white supremacy, which had been challenged by Reconstruction, a federal program that granted certain rights to the population black

Belifs

The first “Red Scare”

The First Red Scare was a period in United States history characterized by strong anti-communism and anti-anarchism and by frequent social tensions between right-wing and left-wing sectors of American society due to real and imagined events.

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, which caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise.

The first

“Red Scare”

Fads

The 1920s is known as the Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties. The most important consumer product of the 1920s was the automobile. With low prices the Ford Model T cost just $260 in 1924 and generous credit made cars affordable luxuries at the beginning of the decade. Prohibition banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol. People simply went to illegal speakeasies, controlled by bootleggers instead of ordinary bars, in addition to being interested scandals.

Popular fads

jazz

Jazz music provided the motivation and opportunity for many women to reach beyond the traditional sex role designated to them by society.Some of the popular jazz artists during this era were Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Ethel Waters while introducing musical styles like scat singing and playing with an orchestra.

Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who rose to international fame in 1927 after becoming the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louisbut she suffered a great loss, her twenty-month-old son was abducted from the family's home east of Amwell, New Jersey, on the afternoon of March 1, 1932.1 More than two months later, on May 12, In 1932, her heavily decomposed body was discovered a short distance from the Lindbergh home in neighboring Hopewell Township.2 Forensic examination determined the cause of death to be a massive skull fracture.

Charles Lindbergh Scandal

Sacco & Vanzetti

They were two Italian immigrants, workers and anarchists, who were tried, sentenced and executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the alleged armed robbery and murder of two people in 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

Their controversial trial drew enormous international attention, with critics accusing the prosecutor and Judge Webster Thayer of improper conduct for sentencing them to death in 1921 after a few hours' trial, and of allowing anti-Italian, anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist sentiments to bias the jury.

Sacco & Vanzetti case

movies

movies

The quality of these movies was extremely high. It is characterized by not having direct sound, because there had been no technical progress in it. some of the most famous actors are Charles Chaplin, Clara Bow, Ted Wilde

baseball and boxing

sports

For the first time, large numbers of Americans began to pay money to watch other people compete in athletic contests. Baseball was the “national pastime” in the 1920s. More people went to baseball games, more people followed baseball, and more people played baseball for fun than any other sport.

Boxing in the 1920s was an exceptionally popular international sport. Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women.

prohibition

In 1920, the United States Congress passed an amendment that prohibited the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the country. The measure, beyond resolving the high rates of liquor consumption, brought with it a series of new social and political conditions, an activist wave that advocated banning the consumption of alcoholic beverages began to gain strength in the country. Their main reasons were three: to increase household savings, to reduce violence at home, and to improve family life. In 1919, the United States Congress approved the 18th constitutional amendment that imposed dry law, that is, it prohibited the production and sale of any drink that contained more than 0.5% alcohol at the national level. This entered into force on January 17, 1920 and was maintained for 13 years.

prohibition

scarface and business

The roots of organized crime during the 1920s are directly linked to National Prohibition. Nearly 700 homicides made Chicago the crime capital and enthroned Al Capone (1899-1947) as its king.

Capone became the czar of Chicago's bootlegging, prostitution, and illicit gambling businesses. And to expand his territory, I don't hesitate to assassinate the leaders of other gangs.

RULES BREAKER

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

The Valentine's Day massacre was a massacre allegedly ordered by Al Capone against five members of the "North Side Gang" plus Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer in Chicago on Valentine's Day

happy valentines day

womens

The 1920s were a challenging time for American women. Women were expected to raise children, take care of the home, provide emotional support to their husbands, and in innumerable ways contribute to American society. But Women begin to take to the streets, to engage in activities where free movement is Make necessary; they noticed that their lives changed more than in appearance. Society now accepted that women could be independent and make decisions for themselves. in education, jobs, marital status and careers. Women's spheres had expanded to include both public and family life.

women

Amelia Mary Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator, famous for her flight marks and for attempting the first round-the-world flight over the equator.

Amelia Mary Earhart

The Scopes Trial- Scopes Monkey Tria

It was a high-profile legal case in the United States that put the Butler Act to the test, which established that it was illegal in any educational establishment in the state of Tennessee "to teach any theory that denies the history of the Divine Creation of man as it is explained." in the Bible, and replace it with the teaching that man is descended from an order of lower animals."

The Scopes Trial

Evolution vs.

Creationism:

Evolution finds the origins of organisms developing along a 4.5 billion year span, and says that humans are a “new creation”. It does deny though that humans are the final creation, which contradicts the creationism theory where God created human beings in the last day, then resting after Creation was complete.toria, some religious fundamentalists charged that teaching evolution was destroying people's faith in God and in the Bible. Thanks to this, several conflicts were created in the American community, coming to create laws to avoid teaching evolution

The Harlem Renaissance

an intellectual and cultural renaissance of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York

this renaissance brought with it several artists and celebrities such as the poets Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay or the

Artist such as Paul Robeson

The Harlem Renaissance

The lost generation

The most relevant members of the lost generation were: John Steinbeck, Hemmingway, F. Scout-Fitzgerald, Cummings and McLeish

The expression "the lost generation" was applied to those North American writers who fought in World War I and after, or to those who remained in Europe or to those who returned.

The Lost GenerationT

Labor Unrest

Union membership and activities fell sharply in the face of economic prosperity, a lack of leadership within the movement, and anti-union sentiments from both employers and the government. The unions were much less able to organize strikes.

politics

Harding Presidency

Harding all but ignored Cox in the race and essentially campaigned against Wilson by calling for a "return to normalcy". Harding won a landslide victory, sweeping every state outside of the South and becoming the first Republican since the end of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy, Tennessee. Harding also signed the Budget and Accounting Act, which established the country's first formal budgeting process and created the Bureau of the Budget. Another major aspect of his domestic policy was the Fordney–McCumber Tariff, which greatly increased tariff rates

Coolidge Presidency

Throughout his gubernatorial career, Coolidge ran on the record of fiscal conservatism, strong support for women's suffrage, and a vague opposition to Prohibition. During his presidency, he restored public confidence in the White House after the many scandals of the Harding administration.

Coolidge Presidency

election of 1928

The 1928 United States presidential elections marked a new presidential term for the Republican Party, which had ruled the country since the 1920 elections. This time, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was elected after President Calvin Coolidge refused to be a candidate again.

Stock Market Crash

The crash of 1929 was the most catastrophic fall in the stock market in the history of the stock market in the United States. Its impact, its global reach and the long duration of its consequences caused the so-called Great Depression.

Stock Market Crash

Model T

Henry Ford was an American businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908. Henry Ford wanted the Model T to be affordable, simple to operate, and durable. The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve hi

Henry Ford

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