Roaring Twenties Teacher Fact Sheet for With PP Lecture

ROARING TWENTIES
Slide Preview: The Roaring 1920s
 Most transformative decades in America
 For the first time, more people lived in cities than on farms and the nation’s wealth
more than doubled.
 The culture of the 1920s is often remembered for the liberation of women, known as
Flappers, distinctive fashion trends, and mass consumption
 We will address a few of these in the next slides.

Slide 1: It was the best of times…

 US Beat Germany, Fresh off of WWI
 The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change.
 Poor were becoming rich
 Prosperity
 Cities > Farms
 Nation’s wealth doubled, “consumer society”
 People from coast to coast bought the same goods, music, dances and slang!
 Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, “mass culture
 Brought more conflict than celebration, only good for some.
 Dancing > Alcohol to combat abuse, and bring freedom

Slide 2: World War I Winners

 WWI over, after the assassination of Ferdinand in 1914, and US beat Germany by 1918.
Germany had to pay all this money to the U.S. and central vs allied powers were at a
still.
 Great economic state as a result of the Treaty of Versailles
 Republicans are conservative (gave back money, rather than give back)
 No middle-class during this time (these are the people that wanted to help)

Slide 3: The New Woman

 Evolution of women-prior-long skirts, at home, housework
 Morality was changing and became compromised
 Stigma revised
 Women became more independent, got jobs and paychecks, 2 income household first
time
 White-collar jobs= business, away from farms in cities, secretary jobs
 Before, no birth-control, example of Grandma
Slide 4: Brand New Concepts
 Birth of entertainment learn about things worldwide
 Prior clothes were tailored to body, now go and buy mainstream
 Money meant more movies and cars. Cars= jobs for mechanics, gas stations, etc.
 Invented credit, tab=credit at store, led to great depression and why the fall was so bad

Slide 5: The Jazz Age

 Dance was not ballroom now, morality issues at hand
 Ex: Homecoming, OCU against dance

Slide 6: Prohibition
 Started in Hillsboro, Ohio
 If men went to the bars, women wouldn’t sleep with them
 Bootleggers= put alcohol in boots (Ex: Sneaking flasks into prom in suit)

Slide 7: Prohibition continued…

 Amendments
 Speakeasies= back bar- password to get in and safely and easily drink, though still illegal
 Led to organized crime like the mob and AL Capone

Slide 8: RIP Prohibition

 Read date
 Didn’t work, revoked

Slide 9: Black Tuesday

 Actual headlines from newspaper
 Headline is from that Friday

Slide 10: Black Tuesday 2

 Crashed in different ways
 Crashed previous Thursday (Oct 24)/fully crashed Tuesday (Oct 29)
 When money runs out, it dips lows and people stop buying and back out
 Investors (rich people) call Thursday/Friday and need money to put into the stock
market
 Tuesday hit rock bottom and bottomed out

Slide 11: Black Tuesday 3

 Chart is complicated, usually -1 to -5 but basically really bad
Slide 12: Bank Picture
 Finances going to crap, people want to go get their money
 Bank only holds certain amount of money. Bank ran out, closed, no one has money
 Do you know anyone that hoards money? Under the mattress phrase coined here
because banks couldn’t be trusted.
 Lost everything, Jobs led to stores going under too because they couldn’t pay tabs
 Went off cliff

Slide 13: American Dream Picture

 Once you have a standard of living, hard to change that
 People are lined up to go to a soup kitchen in front of this sign
 They fell off the cliff of success
 Just a dream