Mrs. Crews' Class



Roaring 20sI can explain how technology impacted the lives of Americans and businesses.’s Model T Henry Ford – entrepreneur and inventorHe wanted to make a car that was sturdy, safe, and affordable for the average person.Affordable came in one style, one color, and made on an assembly line. An assembly line could make a car in 1 ? hours.Without an assembly line it took 12 hours to make a car.Specialization: a nation or individual concentrates its productive efforts on producing a limited variety of goods. Less time meant the car cost less.He paid the workers $5.00 a day instead of the average pay of $2.34 a day.*Assembly line activityCar Ownership By 1920 half of the cars in the world were Model Ts.By 1929 there were 26 million cars on the roads in the U.S.Changes caused by carsFaster and more reliable transportation than a horse and wagon.Created new jobs.Construction workers for roadsAuto repair shopsHotels, restaurantsGas stationsGave Americans a new type of freedom.Live farther from jobsTravel for vacations, visits, sightseeing New – Time to visit family, parks, etc. New – Who conserved the land for national parks? Entertainment Radio First radio message sent across the Atlantic Ocean – 1901First professional radio station – 192119 years between first message to radio stationWestinghouse Electric developed the commercial radio technology.Westinghouse Electric mass produced radios believing people would use them for entertainment.Music, news, sports July 2, 1921 – RCA broadcast a championship boxing match. Mass Media- public forms of communication that reach large audiences.Advertisers used radio and newspapers to sell their products.People all over the nation were buying the same products and listening to the same songs. Movies Theaters were called nickelodeons because the movie cost a nickel.Movies were short and without sound called “silent” movies.Later the movies added sound and were called “talkies.”Hollywood, California became the capital of movie making because the climate was good most of the year with a variety of settings (mountains, ocean, etc.)People modeled themselves after the stars in the movies.Hairstyles, clothes, languageGrowing attendance1916: 10 million people attended weekly1920: 35 million people attended weeklyJazz Age – I can explain why this period is called the “Jazz Age.” musicLouis Armstrong Harlem Renaissance – I can explain how the ideas from Harlem, N. Y. spread across the U.S. of the African-Americans that migrated to the North from the South settled in Harlem, New York.The Harlem Renaissance was when the writing, music, and painting were their way of artistically communicating.Langston Hughes wrote poems and books Jacob Lawrence created paintings (p.318)Look for their work at the High Museum in Atlanta, Ga. Athletes and Pilots Radio made people famousSports players – Babe RuthHit 60 homeruns in a seasonPilots Charles Lindbergh, “Lucky Lindy”1927: first person to fly across the Atlantic OceanAmelia Earhart1932: first woman to person to fly alone across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to CaliforniaOther Mentions1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (You will read this your junior year.)1887-1986: Georgia O’Keeffe - see her paintings at the High Museum.How many years did she live? ................
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