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Do Now•What do you see?•How do you know?•What does it mean?•How is it different from what we have learned about so far in this class?

I. Social Changes

Objective 9.03

A. “Roaring Twenties”•Definition – nickname for the 1920’s•Called this because it was a time of great social and cultural change•New music, big parties, and big economic gains

B. Prohibition •Volstead Act (18th Amendment) – outlawed alcohol.• Reasons:• Already banned in some

states.• People thought it was

ruining the morals of American society and causing crime.• The government needed

the supplies used to make alcohol (grains) for the war.

B. Prohibition• Result: major failure.• Speakeasies – secret places you

could go to get drinks.• Bootleggers – people started

making their own alcohol and selling it.• Also would smuggle it in from the

Caribbean or Canada.• Made LOTS of money.

• Effect: Created lots of crime, reduced the respect Americans had for the government.• Repealed in 1933 with 21st

Amendment.

C. Lost Generation• The Lost Generation:

writers who wrote stories about how greed and moral corruption were tearing the country apart.• Saw American life as

superficial and empty.• Members: F. Scott

Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) and Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises).

D. Jazz• Style of music created in

the 1920’s – called the “Soundtrack of the 20’s”• Developed from Southern

African-American music styles• Associated with big party

culture of the Roaring Twenties

• Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington – two of the first Jazz players

II. Technological Changes

Objective 9.03

A. Movies• Between 1910 and 1930, the movie

industry boomed in the United States. • People first went to watch silent movies,

then to watch talkies (movies with sound) at movie theaters.

• The Jazz Singer: the first movie with sound to air in the United States.

• The fashions and lifestyles portrayed in the movies created an American culture, and the idea of a movie star was born.

B. Radio• Most important technological

innovation of the 1920s.• People across the nation could

enjoy the same shows and hear the same news reports.• Revolutionized politics - gave

politicians the chance to reach a larger audience of voters.• Used famously by President

Franklin D. Roosevelt – gave national “fireside chats” each week on the radio.

B. Radio•Social changes:• People listened to sports, music and soap operas – helped all of these things become so popular

•Started the practice of selling advertisements to make money

C. Transportation• Automobiles – assembly line makes them much

cheaper so more people can own them.• More people can now move to the suburbs.

• Airplane – travel farther and faster – became really popular in culture.• Charles Lindbergh- first pilot to fly solo, non-stop across the

Atlantic Ocean – became a cultural icon.

Guided Practice• “The 1920’s were either the best of times or the worst

of times.”• Identify how the Roaring Twenties could be the best of

times or the worst of times for certain groups of people and explain why.• Example: The 1920’s were either the:

Best of Times Worst of Times

Exit Ticket1) Prohibition:

a. Bred a profound disrespect for the law.b. Did little to decrease drinking.c. Was most effective among the upper classes.d. Made it almost impossible to obtain alcohol in the United States.

Exit Ticket2) What was significant about FDR’s “fireside chats?”

 a. They marked the first time that a president effectively used radio to

have direct access to a national audienceb. They sparked controversy by suggesting that the Supreme Court

should be enlargedc. They called for a guaranteed $2000 per year income for every U.S.

householdd. They helped get FDR elected in 1928

Exit Ticket3) How did radio change American society? Explain two different ways.

Stations• You will travel to 5 different stations that tell you about

the changes for different groups of people in society.• You will have 7 minutes at each.• Answer the following questions:• What group of people is this? Who were some of the famous

people involved?• What did they do? Why?