Power point lesson 7 - culture and the harlem renaissance - the twentieth century way

culture and the harlem renaissance

1. The Roaring
Twenties!

2. Objective
•By the end of the lesson, SWBAT
examine and describe the culture
of the 1920s.

3. 1920s
•World War I ended, what was
Europe like after the war ended?

4. Europe after WWI
•It was destroyed, a good chunk of the
population had died in the horrible
war!
•Cities needed to be rebuilt!

6. America After World War I
•What was America like after
World War I?

7. America After WWI
•The U.S. was not destroyed because no
fighting in WWI took place in America.
•Not as much of the population died in
the war because America wasn’t in the
war that long.
•America was becoming richer because
it had to help rebuild Europe - this
made factories very busy!

8. New York 1920

9. The Roaring Twenties!
•Because America became one of the
world’s super powers and much richer
after World War I, the 1920s was a time
of economic growth in the U.S.

10. The Roaring Twenties
•Not only did America become richer,
but culture in America changed a lot
after World War I.
•This time period is known as the
Roaring Twenties!
•Roaring Twenties - A period in the 1920s
when the social, musical, and artistic
culture took off and changed America.

11. Vocabulary
•So, in order to talk about the
Roaring Twenties, we need to talk
about culture.
•What is culture?

12. Culture
•Culture is what surrounds
people. It includes a
community’s language,
religion, popular music,
literature, and movies.

13. Popular Culture Today

14. Culture
•Do you think culture
existed in the 1920s?

15. The Roaring Twenties
•The Roaring Twenties was a
time of cultural change!

16. Social Culture
•Many women started to break away
from old fashioned rules about what
women should be like.
•They started wearing different clothing,
being more independent, and speaking
up for themselves.
•Some of these women were known as
Flappers

17. Flappers

18. Social Culture
•Other women started demanding more
rights such as the right to vote!
•The 19th Amendment gave women the
right to vote.

19. Women’s Suffrage

20. Economic Culture
•America became wealthy after World
War I because it was one of the only
developed countries in the world that
wasn’t destroyed by the war.
•The U.S. was also rich because of all the
inventions developed.
•Therefore, a lot of people became
wealthier and started building
mansions and sky scrapers!

21. Economic Culture

22. Artistic Culture
•Many people started experimenting
with different types of art forms in
the 1920s. It was an explosion of
new ideas!
•Also, new music came on the scene
that was much different.

23. Artistic Culture

24. Harlem Renaissance
•African Americans from all over the
country started to move to Harlem,
New York, to celebrate their heritage.
•In Harlem, people wrote poetry and
stories, developed music, and painted
all in an attempt to show how unfairly
African Americans were being treated
and to bring pride to the African
American community.

25. Harlem Renaissance

26. Conclusion
•Culture is everything that surrounds
us.
•It evolves over time
•Culture in the 1920s was very strong!
•The Harlem Renaissance helped start
the Civil Rights movement for African
Americans.