roaring twenties. city life drinking & fashion flappers

ROARING TWENTIES

CITY LIFE DRINKING & FASHION

Harlem Renaissance

JAZZ

FLAPPERS“bobs”

UNDERGROUND DRINKING

ORGANIZED CRIME

• By the mid 1920’s bootlegging was a $2 billion business

•Organized crime came to control distribution of liquor & violent gang feuds started

Al Capone

For every gallon dumped, 100 gallon reached consumers through bootleggers!!

RURAL LIFE

Fundamentalists People that tried to preserve old

values Anti-new (Baptist, Methodist)

SCOPES TRIAL (MONKEY TRIAL) 1925

Tennessee teacher was arrested and found guilty for teaching evolution in school

CITY LIFE RECREATION

1920’S FAST FACTS

106,521,537 people in the United States  2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2%  Life expectancy:  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6  343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in

1919)  Average annual earnings $1236;  Teacher's salary 

$970  Dow Jones High 100  Low 67   Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the

population.   Gangland crime included murder, swindles,

racketeering  It took 13 days to reach California from New York 

There were 387,000 miles of paved road. 

1920’S SLANG

WARREN G. HARDING

Believed in less government control of business

Raised tariffs to highest level ever

Presidency tarnished by scandal Secretary of Interior leases

Teapot Dome oil reserve to private companies

Harding dies of a stroke

CALVIN COOLIDGE

Continues Harding’s laissez-faire policies

Economy booms

BOOMING ECONOMY

GNP Model T; black Airplanes, plastics, appliances

POST-WAR FARMING

Loss of European markets Blacks move north, looking for jobs