1. Time Period: 1920s
1.1. What were films (movies) like?
1.1.1. Black and White
1.1.2. Broadway Melody of 1929 (1929)
1.1.2.1. First musical to win Best Motion Picture
1.2. What was music like?
1.2.1. "The Jazz Age"
1.2.2. earthy rhythms, fast beat, and improvisational style
1.2.3. blues craze erupted in 1920
1.3. What was photographs like?
1.3.1. Black and White
1.3.2. Simplicity
1.3.3. Action
1.3.3.1. of something or people doing something
1.3.3.2. People aren't stopping to look at the camera
1.3.3.3. NO SELFIES!
1.4. Other Important Dates:
1.4.1. 1926 Henry Ford introduces the 49-hour work week in the auto industry.
1.4.2. 1929 February 14: St. Valentine's Day Massacre. 14 members of a Chicago gang are shot to death in a Chicago warehouse on orders from Al Capone.
1.4.3. October 29: Black Tuesday. The bull market of the late 1920s comes to a crashing end. Between September 3 and December 1, stocks declined $26 billion in value.
1.4.4. 1920: American women received the right to vote.
1.5. Who was president and important things he did?
1.5.1. Calvin Coolidge
1.5.1.1. 30th President (1923-1929)
1.5.1.2. Was VP but made president when Harding died.
1.5.1.3. December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.
1.5.1.4. nickname was "Silent Cal."
1.5.2. Warren Harding
1.5.2.1. 29th President (1921-1923)
1.5.2.2. "Less government in business and more business in government."
1.5.2.3. August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.
1.6. What else was important during this time period?
1.6.1. Prohibition
1.6.1.1. December 1917: 18th Amendment
1.6.1.1.1. 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition.
1.6.1.2. brewing industry argued that taxes on liquor were paying more for the war effort than were liberty bonds.
1.6.1.3. Prohibition quickly produced bootleggers, speakeasies, moonshine, bathtub gin, and rum runners smuggling supplies of alcohol across state lines.
1.6.1.3.1. bootleggers Chicago's Capone.
1.6.2. Immigration Restriction
1.6.2.1. 1924, Congress reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year to two percent of each nationality group counted in the 1890 census.
1.6.3. Women's Right to Vote
1.6.3.1. 19th Amendment
1.6.3.2. This however, did not let women win new opportunities in the workplace.