Response to the Depression

Sections 9.03/9.04

Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Developed from ragtime, spirituals and blues

• Louis Armstrong (Satchmo)• http://www.youtube.com/wa

tch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs

Mass Media• Radio By 1922 over 500

stations, including CBS/NBC

• Fireside Chats Radio broadcasts given

by FDR during the depression to update Americans and increase American morale in the United States government

TIME MAGAZINE

• 1ST weekly magazine in the US

• Created in 1922

• Once name Adolf Hitler Man of the Year

Leisure Time• Movies

A movie in the 1920’s cost 10cents and Actors were paid $250/week. 90 million tickets were sold/week

• Spectator SportsBaseball/Babe RuthBoxing/Jack Dempsey

“The Century : Boom to Bust”

• Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foooDFF9Dgs

• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuEi-U6pmo&feature=related

• Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP7FE8RIbY&feature=related

Prohibition

• 18th Amendment• Volstead Act• Bootlegging• Speakeasy• 21st Amendment• Organized crime

Change In Women’s Roles

• 19th Amendment- granted women suffrage

• Flappers- promiscuous women of the 1920’s who drank, danced, and smoked

• Birth Control- developed by Margaret Sanger and allowed women to focus more on careers and their youth

The Harlem Renaissance• The Great Migration-

800,000 African Americans traveled north for jobs.

• Marcus Garvey- Back to Africa Movement

• Langston Hughes- Famous Poet

• Duke Ellington- Musician

• The Cotton Club- Opened its doors in 1920 as Club De Lux. It underwent a name change1923.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwu165KS5Y

Religion in Politics

• Fundamentalism- A form of Protestant Christianity that upholds belief in the strict and literal interpretation of the Bible.

• Butler Act of Tennessee- A 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man’s origin.

Scopes Monkey Trial

• John T. Scopes- Substitute Teacher/Coach. Taught evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

• Clarence Darrow- Scopes Defense Attorney, hired by the ACLU.

• William J. Bryan- Fundamentalist prosecuting Attorney.