Intro 1920's Warm Up One- 03/30/15

What nicknames have you heard of for this decade?
"The Roaring 20's" and "The Jazz Age"
What years are included in the 1920's?
1920-1929
Change over time

1900-1919:

• World War I starts and ends
• New Freedom and New Nationalism
• Progressivism- government as a tool for social welfare
• Fourteen Points
• Workers' rights
• Anti-trust acts
• The Sedition Acts
• Conservation
• Socialism
• Article 10 (X)
• Red Scare
• Prohibition (18th amendment)
• Square Deal
• Food and Drugs Act
• Muckrackers

1920-1929

• 19th Amendment
• Communism
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case
• Immigration Quota Act 1921
• Immigration Act of 1924
• Nativism
• Scopes Trial
• Fundamentalists
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (lost generation)
• Great Crash of 1929
• Herbert Hoover
• Laissez-faire
• Gangsterism
• KKK
• Automobiles
• Aristocracy- new v. old (money, cultures, immigrants)

Continuity and Change over Time

• Foreign policy/ isolationism
• immigration attitudes (KKK)
• women's rights and struggles
• social;/political status of African Americans

What technological change have you experienced in your lifetime and what broader changes occurred as a result?

• Mobile phones (iPhones) > total reliance on cell phones as well as a cultural shift towards interactions through media rather than in person
• The spread of misinformation through social media and the internet
• Cleaner emissions from cars >> 
•  Alternative fuel sources.
• Pollution levels are dropping (awareness)
• Business changes
• Eco-friendly modes of transportation
• Smart Phones
• Globalization
• Shift in socialization
• Instant communication
• Limited talking
• Photography
• Shift in how information is received and sources. Access of information
• Less reliance on television and newspapers
• Invasion of privacy

1920's

• Bull Market
• easy credit
• Speculation: investing in stocks with hopes of getting rich quick.
• Paid with borrowed money
• Ponzi schemes
• Technology Change v. Cultural Change
• Hollywood
• Talkies
• Radio (national culture emerges)
• Automobile
• Airplanes
• Education System- John Dewey and "hands on learning"
• Art Movement
• Modernist v. Fundamentalist
• Women's movement
• Jazz Age (flappers) -cultural movement in community

Categories:
1. Social Groups and emergences: Women, Gangsterism, immigration, Ku Klux Klan, modernists, flappers, Red Scare,  jazz age, scopes trial
2. Government and economics: Automobiles, Mass consumption, laissez-faire, fundamentalism, capitalism, market economy, Scopes trial, Bull market, stock market, Fordism, Andrew Melon, Atkins v. Children's Hospital
3. Politics: KKK, Prohibition, capitalism
4. Technology: Jazz singer, automobiles

Should the 1920's be considered a distinct historical period from the decades directly before and after it?
The 1920's were a period of time that included changes in economics, politics, technology, and social groups.