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TheRoaringTwentiesAnUrbanAge2.pptxThe 1920s: An Era of Contrasts
Terms
Henry Ford/Model T/Model A
flapper/”it girl”
Margaret Sanger
Prohibition
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance/Langston Hughes/Marcus Garvey
Tulsa Race Riot/Burning of Black Wall Street
second Ku Klux Klan
Red Scare/Palmer Raids
1924 Immigration Act
Questions to Consider
What are some factors that shaped urban culture in the 1920s? How did urban culture influence the nation and the world?
In what ways did women, African Americans, and communities like Greenwich Village challenge discrimination or traditional values about gender and sexuality?
Though cities became associated with modernity and innovation in the 1920s, what were some examples of the reactionary attitudes that existed in the urban culture of the 1920s?
Henry Ford
Ford Model T
Ford Model A
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936
Flappers
Bathing Attire, circa early 1900s
New woman, new bathing suit
Clara Bow, “It” and the “It Girl”
Margaret Sanger
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, “Weary Blues” 1:30
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”1:40
Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Marcus Garvey
Tulsa race riot, 1921
Black Wall Street, Tulsa Oklahoma, 1921
A. Mitchell Palmer
Anti-Immigrant propaganda in Prohibition
Ku Klux Klan in Washington D.C., 1925
Ku Klux Klan, Chicago around 1920
1924 immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1924 was the culmination of growing anti-immigrant sentiment since at least the late nineteenth century.
The Act established immigration quotas for the first time. The quotas set maximum numbers of immigrants from each country that could enter the U.S.
The quotas were equal to 2% of population from the 1890 census because there were fewer southern and eastern European immigrants then
In short, the quotas allowed more immigration from North and Western Europe who get about 85% of quotas
The Act completely excluded east Asians, except for immigrants from the Philippines because the Philippines were still a U.S. territory
The Act set no limits on western hemisphere, so it encouraged immigration from Mexico and other Latin American Countries
Immigration restriction created the idea of an illegal alien and led to the creation of the Border Patrol to police the U.S. borders and deport those who violated the restrictions
Questions to Consider
What are some factors that shaped urban culture in the 1920s? How did urban culture influence the nation and the world?
In what ways did women, African Americans, and communities like Greenwich Village challenge discrimination or traditional values about gender and sexuality?
Though cities became associated with modernity and innovation in the 1920s, what were some examples of the reactionary attitudes that existed in the urban culture of the 1920s?
