Roaring TwentiesBy: Jacina Steele

Popular Music Jazz on radio & phonographs Musicals Lights on Broadway: –No-no Nanette –Show Boat –Rosalie –Runnin’ Wild

MoviesThe Jazz SingerBroadway Melody

Singers Sophie Tucker Fanny Brice Helen Morgan *Paul Whiteman “King of Jazz” #1 Hit.

18th Amendment went into effect ; selling possession, consumption of alcoholic beverages

End of World War I U.S political focused on social and cultural

issues1913-1921-Woodrow Wilson 1921-1923-Warren G Harding 1929-1933- Herbert Hoover

Overseas: There was war & Resolutions Home: Strikes, growing fear of radicals & terrostist

Speeches 1920 > Crystal Eastman “Now We Can

Begin” 1921/1922> Margaret Higgins Sanger

“The Morality of Birth Control” 1924> Clarence Seward “Mercy for

Leopold and Loed” 1925>Margaret Higgins Sanger “The

Children Era”

Women August 23 > Tennessee Legislator The

Federal Suffrage Amendment –Women fight over their rights *Freedom is a large word in the 1920’s

Feminist are socialist , many were communist

Women weren't treated right Wanted Freedom Wanted to be

independent just like the men

Businesses Large New Profit ; Factories and Wages

Rises Henry Ford – discount grocery store

Incomes Increased The Number of Millionaires grew upon

tax reports, 21 Individuals with income over 1 Million Dollars in 1921 , 75 in 1924 207 in 1926 15000 in 1927

Scientist Diabetes: Frederick Grant Banting ( 1891-1941)

and Charles Herbert Best ( 1899-1978) >Insulin: which regulates blood sugar levels, ricks of Coma and Death

Albert Einstein(1879-1955): won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) , Soon published “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”

-Migrated to the U.S in 1933 , Taught at Princeton University

-Vitamin E was discovered : Dr. Herbert McLean EvansIn antioxidants , foods

Facts Tutankhamens Bomb: Nov 4,1922 Baby Austin (1922-1941) British Broadcasting Company (1922) Innovation of Immunization (1923) Beginning of Frozen Food (1925) Television (1926) Penicillin Discovered (1928)

Books The Diary of a Young Girl by : Anne

Frank The Screwtape Letters by : C.S. Lewis Ulysses by : James Joyce The Age of Innocence by : Edith

Wharton The Mysterious Affair At Styles

( Hercules Poriot #1 ) by : Agatha Christie

The Side of Paradise by : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Historical Events American Art Deco – Exhibiitions,

furniture , silver, ceramics, textiles. Architecture , jewerly, painting and Black and White illustrations

Art Movemenets 1925 Year in Review – Texas net

Museum of Art

106,521,537 people in the United States 2,132,000 unemployed , unemployed 5.2% Life epectancy : Male 53.6 , Female : 54.6 Average annual earnings $1236 Teachers salary $970 Gangland crimes murder , swindles and

racketeering Took 13 days to reach California from New

York

Then (1920’s) Now (2013)

Gas Prices $0.13 $3.66

Bread $0.12 $1.88

Milk $0.33 $2.79

Eggs $0.47 $1.54

Movie Tickets $0.25 $7.00

Music $1.00-1.50 $30.00

High School Requirements

Only 17 guns fro 1920 to 1929 in the Military Factory

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