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Kent Chronicles
April 2013
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When you think of the 1920s, what do you think of?
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April 15, 1921
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The Music• It is the JAZZ AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!– Ragtime– Louisiana Creole music
• Started in New Orleans– Spread to Chicago– Then New York
•Stars of Early Jazz Joe Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Bessie Smith How bout this one?
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The Dance
• The Charleston– For Real
• The Fox Trot
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New Women
• As opposed to the “Old Women?”
• Um. Kind of…
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Warren G. Harding• Key Quality- NOT WILSON• Cut Taxes• Cut Government Spending• Pro-Business• Farm Relief
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What Harding is Remembered for (When he is remembered at all)
• The Ohio Gang• Teapot Dome
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Changes in Society
• Car Culture– The Ford Model T
• Radio
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The Plight of the Farmers
• Farmers mass produced during WWI.
• War ravaged Europe started growing again.
• American farmers over produced, lower prices.
• American Tariffs, that protected manufacturing hurt agriculture.
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Concerns about Immigration
• New Immigrants– South East Europe– Asia– Different culture– Different religion– Different political ideas
• Political Solution– Immigration Quotas
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Nativism
• Palmer Raids
• Sacco and Vanzettii
• 2nd Rise of the KKK
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Taking the Mind off the Troubles
• Sport
• Pro Baseball
• Local Ball– Town Pride is on the
line here!
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Other SportJack Dempsey Man o’ War
Knute Rockne
National Football League