Flashback to the 1920
By: Andrew Ritchie, Alex Maiberger, Becky Busen,
Alicia Warren, Conner Jensen
Jazz Age: In 1925 the Jazz Age was at its best. That was the time Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings. The Phantom of the Opera opened at all movie theatres. The Ku Klux Klan marched down streets in Washington, D.C. People sat on flagpoles, danced around in Charleston, read a new novel called The Great Gatsby. A young man named John Scopes got in trouble and went to trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in defiance of a Tennessee law. The Scopes trial was a major impact in the Jazz age. It had that exciting spirit so typical of the 1920’s. In some ways, it was atypical. The Scopes took place in a little town in the South, far from the outbreak of the metropolis. The Jazz Age made the city life more intense. Many African American sharecroppers from the south were leaving their farms to live and work in big cities like New York and Chicago. F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a time when “the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the moral looser.” The excesses of the Jazz Age came barreling down with the stock market crash of 1929. Yet everyone who lived through it had been
forever changed, in the words of Heywood Broun, “The Jazz Age was wicked and monstrous and silly. Unfortunately, I had a good time.�
: African American playing a trumpet
Sports during the 1920’s The 1920’s were known as the Golden Age of Sports. Many sports in the 1920’s became popular with many people and really started to take off. Many people went to baseball games or listened to the radio for airings of the games. Most workers had leisure time because of the desire of jobs. This allowed many people to enjoy games and relax. Most of the broadcasting created stars that we know and love today.
Some famous athletes were people like Babe Ruth. He hit more homeruns than most people. Also sports teams like the Notre Dame was one of the most loved college sports teams around. People loved watching sports and because of the broadcasting that became popular more celebrity athletes were made and more people wanted to watch. African American faces problems playing in sports. Most African American didn’t play sports due the fact that there was still segregation. Even in the North most people didn’t allow African Americans to play in their leagues no matter how talented they were, because of this African Americans made a league just for them. There was one wrestler who played with white boxers and every time he was up to fight no one would fight against him. African Americans face many problems; no matter how good they were they were turned away. Some African Leagues are The Negro National Baseball Team and The Eastern Colored League. These leagues allowed many talented African Americans to play against one another with other African American and it led to less fighting. Rube Foster was the leading factor for this, he made an effort to allow African Americans to play sports. In 1924, the first Negro World Series was played. These games were held over 10 times. These games attracted many fans to certain areas.
Overall, the African Americans faced many problems with playing sports, but these leagues made a something they are a part of with no problems. Overall, sports made a huge impact on the 1920’s.
Baseball during the 1920’s
Negro National Baseball
The Fox Theatre premiering “The Outsider” In 1920
Locals in the Jazz Age: Detroit Detroit making big bucks! The automobile industry is at an all-time high, with over 90,000 workers. Industries began to grow and spread. African Americans started heading up north to find work because the South segregated the African Americans and weren’t offered much work down south.
Headline of the start of the prohibition act spreading awareness of it.
National History in The 1920s Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement collection covers the movement to preserve and protect America's wildlife, wild lands, and other natural resources from 1890-1920. In 1920, seventy-two years after the Seneca Falls convention, the United States finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Of the sixty-eight women who signed the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848, only one--Charlotte Woodward Pierce was able to see that day
Timeline of the 1920s 1920:
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With the ending of World War I a housing boom in the United States leads to increase in homeownership
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The Nineteenth Amendment is added To the Constitution is ratified on August 18, giving women the right to vote.
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The 18th Amendment the National Prohibition Act goes into force at the beginning of the decade which in turn leads to increased black market alcohol that is sold and run by mobsters who pay off local politicians
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The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is formed and financed by a Post Office license fee of 10 shillings, payable by anyone owning a radio receiver.
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Fifty thousand people affected during Lower Louisiana Floods in 1922.
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The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held on November 27th, 1924
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Ellis Island closes in 1924 as an immigration entry point to the US.
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The Indian Citizenship Act confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the United States.
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The Butler Act which prohibits evolution from being taught in public schools is passed in Tennessee in 1925 it is not repealed until 1967
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Sears Robuck opens its first retail store in Chicago, Illinois in 1925; Sears had been selling through Home Shopping Catalogs since 1893 and would continue selling through catalogs for next 70 years at the same time as building one of the largest chain stores in the country.
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The Ford Motor Company announces the creation of a 40-hour work week for factory workers in.
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The Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River opens connecting New York City with Jersey in 1927.
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In 1927 Charles Lindbergh flies The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic nonstop and solo, direct from New York City to Paris, as the first solo transatlantic flight.
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Work begins on Mount Rushmore in the late 1920's carving the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln it takes nearly 15 years to complete
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The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.
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Columbine Mine Massacre 1927
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Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin in 1928 which changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of antibiotics
1929 During most of the decade turf wars between rival gangs were frequent and extremely violent the best known of the many was Al Capone's Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Lincoln Park 7 members of North Side gangs in 1929 •
At the end of the 20's after a time of excesses in all areas, the stock market crashed on Black Thursday (October 24th, 1929) and caused the start of The Great Depression.
Timeline of the 1920’s In the end of the 1920 stock market crashes and this goes into the great depression
Republicans of the ‘20s
Republicans
Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 easily on the promise of a “return to normalcy.” This meant big business headed towards the ‘20s. Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding’s death in 1923 and then elected himself in 1924. Compared to his competitors,
Coolidge ran mostly a scandal-free White House. Coolidge didn’t agree with government regulation of the economy. Herbert Hoover, the third Republican president of the decade, cruised into victory in 1928. He took a slightly different stance toward big business than his ‘competitors’. Hoover thought that capitalism produced social obligations but believed in voluntarism rather than the other options to take care of the obligations. Hoover persuaded industry reform, but refused to institutionalize reform in law. This reliance on voluntarism would hurt him as prosperity began to fade. Hoover wasn’t as good as a leader compared to the other leaders. Republican party
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