The Roaring 20s- Period 5

October 16th

The Roaring 20s

The New Era Ideas on:

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Klu Klux Klan Women’s Fashion Sports New Entertainment Living & More!

Cover by Tyler Thomasson

Table Of Contents Briefing on Consumerism……………………………………………1 Urban vs Rural……………………………………………………….2 Religion vs Science…………………………………………………..3 Prohibition……………………………………………………………5 Immigration Act……………………………………………………...6 In the World: The Dawes Plan……………………………………….8 Women’s 10

Fashion…………………..……………………………….

The Cotton Club…………………………………………………….11 Sports: Babe Ruth…………………………………………………..12 Politics: Klu Klux Klan……………………………………………..13 Ten Question Interview……………………………………………..14 Citations…………………………………………………………….15

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Briefing on Consumerism Tyler Thomasson Quotes: “Whole industries are pooling their strength to ram home a higher standard of living, e.g., the recent nationwide essay contest among school children on home lighting conducted by all branches of electrical industry.”

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Robert and Helen Lynd

“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the pal and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption… we need tog consumed, burned op, replaced and discarded at an everaccelerating rate.”

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Victor Lebow

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Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth 5%

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Consume 58% of total energy, the poorest fifth less than 4%

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Have 74% of all telephone lines, the poorest fifth 1.5%

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Consume 84% of all paper, the poorest fifth 1.1%

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Own 87% of the world’s vehicle fleet, the poorest fifth less than 1%

Urban vs. Rural

By Anna and Drucilla Dear Editor, I'm writing today to tell you about the advantages of living in the city. Women have more opportunities in the city today.

There are nightclubs, newspaper stands, seamstress positions and jobs as secretaries available to them. There is also more diversity in the city because of the job opportunities. Rural areas have only farms to work at so life is harder so the city is better.

In the city they wore feathers head dresses short dresses.in the country the long dresses and coats. long socks and boots. Later on the life the switched to more shorter stuff and bobs. While the rural is all modest with their choices.

I think that living in rural areas benefits people more than living in the urban areas. Prohibition is encouraged in rural parts of America and most people obey it.

In urban areas, speakeasies are becoming more and more popular and I do not think it’s appropriate. Rural Women are more modest and want to start families, whereas women in the urban follow an independent lifestyle and do not feel they need a husband. Women should take care of their children and indoor housework, not become telephonists, typists and other kinds of jobs like those. If everyone lived in rural areas, life would be more peaceful.

Men working on the farm Urban Fashion

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Religion vs Science

by Jonah Marcussen and Tyler Thomasson

Religion:

Science:

John scopes should go to jail.

Evolution should not be permitted in schools. There is no full truth that evolution is real.

John Scopes has been lying about evolution and the “monkey trial” is fake; they’re all lies. Religion is truthful and has been here longer. Religion isn't made like evolution.

Religion comes from true belief, and not something silly and fake. i believe children should have truthful education not about something silly.

The teaching of evolution should surely be permitted in schools. The “Monkey Trial” for one was way too chaotic. Also, there are many theories about evolution that can be proven correct.

In addition, shouldn’t children be more educated? Getting rid of this kind of education will only limit one’s knowledge, and for all we know it could useful in the future.

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Letter to the Editor: Prohibition

By Ander Fuller Mathew Middle-class: Most Americans today are drinkin’ too much. They go out every night to the bars and drink too much for their own good. After they are drunk out of their mind, their wives have nobody to support them.

They ain’t thinking of the people they need to support in their lives, and they can barely support themselves when they are drunk. So, yes, I support prohibition, because America has too many drunkards for its own good.

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Letter from the Editors: The Immigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 is a law that stated that only a controlled the amount of immigrants that could enter into the United States. President Warren passed this act as a law to the congress.

When congress was done debating over immigration, the quota system began. The quota system, part of the Immigration Act, only allowed three percent of the population of a certain ethnic group to enter the United States. For example, if 1,000 Germans lived in America in 1925, that year, only 30 Germans could immigrate. No one questioned whether it was right to maintain the amount of immigration, but only how the quota system could adjust it. This allowed raising quotas and allowing more people to enter for immigration.

Also, the Act did not allow foreign immigrants into the country, like the Japanese, to enter America.

We believe that the Act is good for limiting the amount of Europeans from entering. Without this act, there will be far too many ethnic groups in the United States.

IN THE WORLD:

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THE DAWES PLAN

BY ANDER FULLER After the war ended in 1919, Germany was told to pay reparations to France, Great Britain, Italy, and other countries. These countries also had to pay back their debt to our country, and needed Germany’s money to do it. Germany couldn’t pay all of their debt, so Charles Dawes was asked to solve this economic crisis.

Charles Dawes was a banker from Chicago. He was asked by the secretary of state to solve the economic problems in Europe. In response to this challenge, he created the Dawes Plan.

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The Dawes Plan encourages American bankers to give colossal loans to Germany. With this money, Germany would pay its reparations to European countries. Those countries would then pay their debt to the U.S. The U.S. would then gain the interest from the massive loans to Germany. Dawes finished his plan in April of 1924.

The Plan worked as designed for five years. Dawes eventually was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. He was also Calvin Coolidge’s Vice President Candidate.

Women’s Fashion By: Anna Ditch After the World War, women’s fashion dramatically changed. Since they now have the right to vote, women felt they had more freedom. It impacted their choice to be creative and unique in their clothing by wearing much more color and patterns in their clothing. Instead of wearing long skirts that covered their ankles, they wore skirts that rose above their knees. Instead of having very long hair, they decided to cut it all off and have a bob. They also wore much more accessories.

The hemlines of dresses and skirts rose in the early 1920s. Some people thought it was horrible to have such high skirts, but it gave women more room to dance at night. Instead of dresses and skirts being a plain, pastel colors, they had vivid colors. They also had more patterns. The dresses and skirts were more unique and fashionable. Also, dresses and skirts were lighter because designers didn’t have to use such heavy material to make long outfits.

Flappers were a big influence in this time. Flappers were urban, young, single, middle-class women. A flapper had short, sleek hair, wore short dresses with a straight, loose silhouette. She wore makeup that was applied in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, and was a reckless rebel who dances at night.

They would engage in the active city nightlife. They would often would go to speakeasies and jazz clubs.

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Page 10 Bobbed hair became very popular.

In the US, "the bob" was reintroduced by actress Louise Brooks in the later 1920s.

Many celebrities had impacted women’s decisions to cut their hair. Women felt more free to cut off their long hair and get it cut to their shoulders or higher. There were many ways to wear a bob. You could have it slicked flat and curled softly, wear it as a loosely coiled rope of hair around your head and let the bob grow longer at the sides. You could wear it with bangs or wear it with loose curls and a side part. There were more styles, but many celebrities wore their hair in these ways, and women wanted to look like them.

Flappers also wore more accessories. The 1920s hat icon was the cloche. These round shaped, snug fitting, helmet like hats made of felt or straw came far down the forehead. The turban style hat was similar to the cloche. It was made of wrapped fabric circling the head with flowers, gems and feathers on one side. The fabric usually matched the dress and was typically an evening hat.

Necklaces came in two varieties: beaded or ribbon chokers and long strands of glass beads and pearls. Shoulder wraps were made of animal furs like fox and mink and were a wealthy woman’s pride and joy. The less wealthy used large silk triangular scarves wrapped and tied to one side with a brooch.

Cotton Club

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by Tyler Thomasson

The Cotton Club is a very popular casino located above a theater in Harlem at 142nd Street, and Lenox Avenue. It is credited with bringing “Broadway to Harlem and Harlem to Broadway.”

The club had many hopes, and purposes. Originally, the club wanted to function as an outlet for the owner’s #1 beer.

Also, it wanted to cater to white downtowners’ taste for the exotic, as well as bring to mind images of the old South where slavery kept the races strictly apart.

This led to certain policies or ideas being passed,and formed. One is that “white” customers were only in the middle of Harlem. Contrasting to that, black patrons were not allowed, unless they were a celebrity.

The Cotton Club features like: dancers, singers, comedians, and variety acts, as well as a house band. Blues and jazz performers Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and Ellington made appearances, as well as many others. In addition, the club gained national notoriety through weekly broadcasts on radio station WHN.

Sports: Babe Ruth By: Drucilla Demeulenaere

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Babe Ruth had two wives: Claire Merritt Ruth, and Helen Ruth (1914-1929). Babe Ruth was born by the name of George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth was one of eight children, and one of two that survived infancy.

He was the number one person everyone wanted to see. He could be seen on television, newspapers. He won his major league on July 11, 1914. On December 26, 1919, Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees and the two teams would never be the same again.

After becoming a player for the Yankees, he transitioned to full time outfielder. Ruth helped save baseball from the ugly Black Sox scandal, and gave hope to all African American so they would not be scared and want to join the baseball team. He impacted the game in a way never seen before, and is still the greatest player in baseball history.

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Politics: Klu Klux Klan by Jonah

The KKK believes that only true whites americans are allowed.

Jews, Catholics, and African Americans are hated by the Klan. They believe in nativism along with the burning cross as their symbol of faith.

The KKK meetings have been taking place all over the country. One of the meetings took place in New Jersey with 20,000 members in the streets, holding burning crosses in the air.

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The Klan has been striking African Americans with sites of lynching on people’s lawns. Now there is about 2,000,000 members!

The Klan was growing vastly in Washington and southern parts of the United States which was scaring Americans to join the KKK. The vote for election now has changed dramatically; fifteen percent of voters are in the KKK. They also successfully kept Al Smith, a Catholic, from winning the Democratic national convention.

This allowed John Davis to easily win the election for democratic presidency.

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Ten Question Interview Walt Disney By: Drucilla Demeulenaere 1.

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Why did you choose to create animation?

When did you decide to do animation?

How did you come up with the idea of Mickey Mouse?

Who are your kids?

Did you make any more animations?

What are your favorite discoveries? what age did he profit.

How many kids do you have?

Did anyone inspire you to make animations?

What was your favorite part of your animations?

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1. I decided to create animation because it is different and creative.

2. I decided to do animation somewhere between 1920-1927 3. I thought of all the animals and thought of a mouse.

4. My children are Diana and Shannon Disney.

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he didn't have many around 51 two stephen schochet

10.at the end when he got all the work done and he got to watch it all.

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