PPT-Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

Prohibition January 1920 18th Amendment Sale of alcohol was illegal Bootlegging Illegally producing and selling alcohol Speakeasies Illegal establishments that sold liquor Speak easy when you are at a bar so you dont look nervous or act suspicious . 1920-1947. Chelsea Bell. Southern Methodist University. MSA 3325. Spring 2013. Historical. Background. The Twenties. In the wake of WWI, many European nations were weakened and became smaller in size. (. v. ) to prevent from happening; to make impossible. Her extreme fear of heights . precludes . any chance of ever going skydiving. . sporadic. (. adj. ) . occurring once in a while; infrequent. Residents of Los Angeles are used to only . The Roaring Twenties. Life Magazine cover page celebrating the 1920s, http://theroaringtwentieshistory.blogspot.ca/p/events-of-twenties.html . The Roaring Twenties. Music. Jazz, fast, happy, fun. Fashion. Overview. Economic Freedom. Real economy. Financial economy. Alleged causes of the Great Depression. More likely causes. Implications for today. Why Do Economies Grow?. Sufficient amounts of . economic freedom . (Library of Congress). In the 1920s baseball recovered from the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 as attendance soared in ballparks throughout the country. (. Photodisc. , Inc.). Charles Lindbergh with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. His 1927 flight from New York to Paris instantly made him an American hero. (Library of Congress). Seeing Red. vAmerica turned in after the war again- disillusion. vFear of Communist Russia. vSmall party in US. vBelieved takeover in US. v. Palmer Raids- 1919-1920- Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer. APUSH Unit 11. 1919-1939. 1920s Popular Culture. WW1 Anxieties. Espionage & Sedition . Act (1918). Demobilization & . Labor Strife. Red Scare (1919). Palmer Raids. Sacco & Vanzetti (1920, 1927). There were significant differences between the quality of play and the fan base for pro and college basketball. . Many of the professionals never went to college and some did not even complete high school. . The “manly art of boxing,” seemingly ingrained in many cultures and introduced in the original Olympics in about 688 . bce. , adopted the Marquis of Queensbury rules in the late 1800s and made the sport less violent. . A Scholarship Presentation by Rachel Lampson and John Williams. Biography of Mary Firth . (1584.  – 26 July . 1659). Her name was first referenced on 7 August, 1610 in John Day’s lost . Madde. . 16 franchises . had been established for at least a decade, the World Series had become institutionalized since its onset in . 1900. . Minor-league . baseball teams at levels from Class AAA to Class D were located in almost every town of more than 10,000 . American . Communist Party . formed in 1919. c. ommunist ideas frightened much of the public. Palmer Raids . (1919) resulted in the deportation and arrest of . thousands. n. o evidence of revolutionary conspiracies uncovered. Seeing Red. vAmerica turned in after the war again- disillusion. vFear of Communist Russia. vSmall party in US. vBelieved takeover in US. v. Palmer Raids- 1919-1920- Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer. Introduction. . . The Great Gatsby, one of the most famous American novels of all time was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was created around the roaring twenties and the jazz age. It also reflects on the life of the upper class during this time frame. The United States, and more specifically New York was a different place in the twenties when Fitzgerald began writing this book. This webquest was designed to allow the students to travel back in time to a place they know nothing of in order to get them to build background for the story. .