1920-1929



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Prohibition caused many problems in the 1920’s. This helped create bootleggers, gangsters, and speakeasies. ||  The Charleston was a huge part of the 1920’s. it was a representation of being a rebel || The 1920’s was all about fashion, dance, and the girls or known as flappers. ||  In the 1920’s, the radio brought the family together as well as told everyone about the war. || The scopes Trail caused great distress with people in the south because people only believed in god || Baseball and other sports entertained many Americans in the 1920’s || The Harlem Renaissance was the beginning of African American’s gaining respect from their fellow Americans || In the 1920’s, woman’s rights was a big issue. Women were constantly pushing the right to vote. ||
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American short-story writer and novelist, known for his depictions of the Jazz Age very much of his own time. His own career followed the pattern of the nation, booming in the early 1920s and skidding into near oblivion during the depths of the Depression. Yet his fiction did more than merely report on his times. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota. Some of his work like //The Great Gatsby// setting was in New York City and Long Island during the 1920s. During Fitzgerald life he also wrestled with many personal problems such as alcoholism in particular and the problematic relationship with his wife, Zelda Sayre. His reputation as a drinker inspired the myth that he was an irresponsible writer; yet he was a painstaking reviser whose fiction went through layers of drafts. Fitzgerald’s clear, lyrical, colorful, witty style evoked the emotions associated with time and place. When critics objected to Fitzgerald’s concern with love and success, his response was: “But, my God! It was my material, and it was all I had to deal with.” The chief theme of Fitzgerald’s work is aspiration the idealism he regarded as defining American character. Another major theme was mutability or loss. The Fitzgerald’s returned to America in the fall of 1931 and rented a house in Montgomery. Fitzgerald made a second unsuccessful trip to Hollywood in 1931. Zelda Fitzgerald suffered a relapse in February 1932 and entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She spent the rest of her life as a resident or outpatient of sanitariums. The 1936-1937 period is known as “the crack-up” from the title of an essay Fitzgerald wrote in 1936. Ill, drunk, in debt, and unable to write commercial stories, he lived in hotels in the region near Asheville, North Carolina, where in 1936 Zelda Fitzgerald entered Highland Hospital. After Baltimore Fitzgerald did not maintain a home for Scottie. When she was fourteen she went to boarding school, and the Obers became her surrogate family. Nonetheless, Fitzgerald functioned as a concerned father by mail, attempting to supervise Scottie’s education and to shape her social values. || ==== **F. Scott Fitzgerald ** ==== ==== Birth name: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald ====

Died: December 21, 1940
|| ====Al Capone was born on January 17th, 1899 to a big family. Family was a huge thing for the Capone’s. They were always together. His father died when he was young. AL Capone was the most famous bootlegger and mobster in the 1920’s. He committed probably the worst crimes and murders. He lived in Chicago, and made over $60 million a year. He did this by selling liquor and killing off the competition. Headlines reported 522 bloody gang killings. At 26, Capone headed a criminal empire in Chicago. He also ran a network of 10,000 speakeasies. He was worth $100 million. In 1931 he was arrested for tax evasion and went to jail. He died on January 25, 1947. ==== || =Al Capone= Born: Jan. 17, 1899 Died: Jan. 25, 1947 || In 1924, he joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in N.Y. He felt very restricted so he started his Hot Five with Johnny Dudds(clarinet), Kid Ory( trombone), Lil Armstrong (piano), and Johnny St.Cyr (banjo). These records were sold to blacks, especially in the south. Armstrong’s first vocal with the Hot Five was “Heeble Jeebles” in 1926, which was his first hit. Armstrong loved to perform. By 1928, he switched from cornet to trumpet. In 1971, he died of heart failure while he was on tour with the All Stars, a six member band. || ==== Louis Armstrong Born: July 4th, 1900 Died: 1971 ||
 * Louis Armstrong was born around august, 190. He made his official birthday July 4, 1900to identify with his American History. He was born in New Orleans to Will Armstrong and Mary Albert, where he grew up surrounded by music.when he was twelve he was sent to the Colored Waifs Home for shooting a gun on New Years Eve. Thered he learned to play the cornet. In 1920, Armstrong worked with the Fate Marable Band on Mississippi steamboats. In 1922, he was invited to join King Olivers Reole Jazz Band in Chicago. Oliver became his mentor. Because of this, many other musicians and his reputation was huge.

Birth name: Charles Spencer Chaplin Born: April 16th 1889 Died: December 25th 1977 media type="youtube" key="BAKPq24MddA" height="349" width="425" || =__Decade Evaluation__ = The 1920’s was a time of uproar, people began to change dramatically with a new outlook on life. This Uproar is justified by revolutions in social, political, and economic archetypes. Socially the 1920’s endeavoured “Prohibition”, the “Scopes Trial”, immigration issues, and fear of communist takeover. The 1920’s economy was vastly contrasted, going from pristine conditions to a complete crash, all happening in less than ten years. Politically the 1920’s lived through “Palmer Raids”, The first league of nations council, and the ratification of the 18th amendment.
 * ====Charlie Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th 1889. His father was an actor, and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive actress and singer, who gained a reputation for her work in the light opera field. When he was 10 his father died and the illness of his mother made it necessary for Charlie and his brother, to grown up fast. At the age of fourteen, he got his first chance to act in a legitimate stage show as a page boy. Chaplin was offered a motion picture contract in the fall of 1912 during a repeat tour in the United States. His initial salary was $150 a week, but his overnight success on the screen spurred other producers to start negotiations for his services. Chaplin sailed for Europe in September 1921. London, Paris, Berlin and other capitals on the continent gave him tumultuous receptions. After an extended vacation, Chaplin returned to Hollywood to resume his picture work and start his active association with United Artists. Chaplin’s versatility extended to writing, music and sports. He was the author of at least four books, "My Trip Abroad", "A Comedian Sees the World", and “My Autobiography", "My Life in Pictures" as well as all of his scripts. An accomplished musician, though self-taught, he played a variety of instruments. He died on Christmas day 1977, survived by eight children from his last marriage with Oona O’Neill, and one son from his short marriage to Lita Grey. ==== || Charlie Chaplin

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The social Upheaval of 1920’s America was a dynamic time to say the least, starting with the 18th amendment, the amendment stated the sale, transport, and manufacture of alcohol illegal. This statute was the most flouted law ever passes by United States government. Most Americans weren’t ready to, or were ever planning to give up alcohol. Americans defied the law by the use of Speakeasies, secret clubs were alcohol was served, usually to enter a password or phrase was required. Bootlegging was also a popular way of acquiring alcohol, but the best beverages weren’t always produced. Tho social explosion that was the “Scopes Trial” was perhaps the most important trial of the decade. A high school Biology teacher (John Scopes) was accused of teaching evolutionary theory, from a textbook, wiches ideas came from Charles Darwin’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__On the Origin of Species__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. This was in direct violation of the “Butler Act” which prohibited public school teachers from denying a biblical account of man’s origin. This case basically became creation vs. evolution, and people from all over the nation flocked to the small Tennessee town of Dayton, all to observe the notorious “Scopes Trial.”

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