The+1920's

Click on this link [|The Flu] to read about the famous influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. [|PBS Documentary Prohibition Here] Click [|here] to read about the pros v. cons of the drinking age in America now.
 * Terms: //bootlegging, Spanish Flu, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment, 21st Amendment,//**
 * //Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Red Scare,//**
 * //speakeasies, organized crime, flappers, cloche, Teapot Dome, Harlem Renaissance, temperance,//**
 * //Jazz Age, protective tariff, The Spirit of St. Louis, scofflaw//**
 * //The Invisible Empire, racketeering//**
 * The 18th Amendment- "To pass a law means nothing, to enforce the law means everything"-****Unknown historian**
 * President Warren Harding**

**President Warren G. Harding**
The US had a weak economy after WW1. Here were some of President Harding's proposals:

5. Immigration restrictions in an attempt to protect jobs for Americans
Photo of President Harding, General Pershing and members of the Army War College taken in the fall of 1921. from google images =Calvin Coolidge- "Keep cool with Coolidge" 1923-1929= from google images. President [|Calvin Coolidge]

not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny".

 * President Calvin Coolidge**
 * **Coolidge took a stand for African Americans and Native Americans,**
 * **Was pro business, was for less taxes,**
 * **Wanted to regulate new industries (Radio and Aircraft)**

Crime during the 1920's

media type="youtube" key="3svvCj4yhYc" width="420" height="315" Flapper Fashion click on the photo below! Advertisment for makeup

A cloche

[|JAZZ!] Click on the photo Louis Armstrong to go to a website comparing Jazz Music with American Democracy! Jazz Music:
 * Evolved from African and European styles of music
 * Very popular in Europe. Was introduced by African American dough-boys to the French during World War 1.
 * Considered a very "American" style and also considered very rebellious (would later be outlawed in Nazi Germany)
 * Helped to bridge the racial gap in America as it was popular with people from all races; integrated before the military, baseball or schools in the US

click on the photo of the Poet Countee Cullen And read one of Countee Cullen's poems below:

Thoughts in a Zoo By [|Countee Cullen]
They in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each others rage, and pass the hours Commiserating each the others woe, To mitigate his own pains fiery glow. Man could but little proffer in exchange Save that his cages have a larger range. That lion with his lordly, untamed heart Has in some man his human counterpart, Some lofty soul in dreams and visions wrapped, But in the stifling flesh securely trapped. Gaunt eagle whose raw pinions stain the bars That prison you, so men cry for the stars! Some delve down like the mole far underground, (Their nature is to burrow, not to bound), Some, like the snake, with changeless slothful eye, Stir not, but sleep and smoulder where they lie. Who is most wretched, these caged ones, or we, Caught in a vastness beyond our sight to see?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great version of the song "Summertime" written by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess media type="youtube" key="MIDOEsQL7lA" height="344" width="425"

Maxfield Parrish was a famous painter from Philadelphia. See one of his most famous works below titled //Daybreak -1922//

What do you notice about the above Art Nouveau pieces? Art Nouveau style building in Belgium

What did you notice about the Art Deco pieces below?

Watch one of the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons called "Steamboat Willy". media type="custom" key="21941826" and another called "The Karnival Kid". In this one you hear Mickey "speak" for the first time. The hotdogs are kind of weird..... media type="custom" key="21941838"

Read a short biography on "Lucky Lindy" [|here]

Gertrude Ederle after she successfully swam the English Channel on August 6th,1926. media type="custom" key="21941844"

Clip of "Little Miss Poker Face" Helen Wills media type="custom" key="21941770" The "Manassa Mauler", Jack Dempsey media type="custom" key="21941822"

Click hear to learn more about the boxing legend [|Jack Dempsey]

Some other famous people from the 1920's: Helen Wills, Jack Dempsey, Charles Lindbergh, Gertrude Ederle

Some 1920's Film clips

1920's Test Review