culture in the 1920s

Culture during the 1920sWhat social trends and innovations shaped

popular culture in the 1920s?

WARM-UP:

• In what ways do modernism and traditionalism conflict today? • What parts of our culture, from your experiences or observations, illustrate

this clash?

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Post WWI Tensions• Labor unrest• Rising socialism = Red Scare

Sedition Act 1918Espionage Act• Xenophobia

Consumer Culture

• “Consumption is good for the economy”

• Buy on credit

Transportation• Charles Lindbergh, Amelia

Earhart

• Wingwalkers

• Barnstorming

• Automobiles = suburbs, motels, gas stations, etc.

Mass Media• Radio = today’s internet

• Movies

• Advertising

• National celebrities

Women’s Movement

• 19th Amendment• Sexual liberation and

Margaret Sanger• Flappers• League of Women

Voters• Equal Rights

Amendment

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Art• Harlem Renaissance, Jazz

• “The Lost Generation” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway..

• Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Hopper

• Norman Rockwell

Education and Medicine• Schools designed on factory model•

• No FDA to regulate and test drugs• Advances were made

• Germ theory• Anesthesia in surgery

Traditionalism vs. Modernism• Traditionalists = old values• Modernists = new values

Urban vs. Rural

Youth vs. Adult

Wet vs. Dry• Prohibition – 18th and 21st

Amendments

Religion vs. Science• The Scopes Trial

Traditionalism vs. Modernism

1920s in Oregon• Eugenics• Ku Klux Klan

KKK in Lane county

Eugenics in Oregon

Textbooks in Texas