1920s PowerPoint answers

1920s: The birth scream of the modern Answers for the 6 sections form the PowerPoint... Below the Pictures...

1. Urban vs. Rural By the Mid-1920s the majority of Americans were living in the great U.S. cities = New York/ Philadelphia/ Chicago/ Bridgeport...Los Angeles... These cities were very attractive to millions of Immigrants from Europe and African Americans leaving the south...They found IN THE CITIES= jobs and opportunity and all of the wonderous new technologies that the Captains of Industry turned into fantastic products….Of course there was a negative side to all of this… MODERNITY---cities were anonymous= you were without the support of extended family and clan and they were rough and tumble places with almost anything goes attitude--free for all lifestyle…This was and is a strong part of MODERN LIFE….

2. The Clash between Religion & Science By the 1920s the Scientific explanation of humanity---aka evolution --- was gaining steam and challenged the traditional spiritual/ religious narrative of humanity = Who are we? Where do we come from? These deep fundamental questions now had a Scientific explanation as well as a Religious explanation... This battle between the 2 heavy weights would dominate the 20th century and is still with us today...This was and is a strong part of modern life...

3. THE Changes in Gender Roles for WOMEN… By 1920 Women had the right to vote and political representation and the beginning of economic opportunity...They entered the workforce in great numbers...Also their roles in the family and society changed drastically especially in the CITIES...where independence away from the traditional family took root and grew...Women’s voices for the first time were being heard in music, art, literature and eventually politics and leadership … Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916,

4. Changes in EDUCATION, POPULAR CULTURE, and development of MASS MEDIA A whole new world emerged for the average/ common American … In the 1920s 25% of U.S. students attended High School by 1940 that would 73% so an incredible jump...20% of American student were going to college in the 20s -- again both of these options were just for the wealthy and privileged before the 1920s...Media or other voices in our head where now everywhere...movies, RADIO, newspapers, magazines...were all pushing a modern explanation and vision of life...

5. The Beginning of the Incorporation of African Americans & Diversity in America … Between 1910 and 1970 6 million African-Americans left the South and went to the great cities of the North = Philadelphia/ New York/ Bridgeport/ Detroit/ Chicago---and began to express themselves through literature & music= their contributions and experience of American Society... Even though there were great obstacles of racism, prejudice and discrimination-- in northern cities--there was also present--- what some Black intellectuals called “a holiday of the spirit” where African-Americans and whites began to mix culturally and a fuller inclusion started in the 1920s for the first time in noticeable numbers...not great numbers but a start of mixing...

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