1920s



1920s Study Guide Technology extended progress into all areas of American life, including neglected rural areas.Key Question: What were the results of more affordable automobiles?Greater mobilityCreation of jobs (road construction, oil, steel, automobiles, travel industry)499110107315Cars Cost LessKey Question: Where did people move in the 1920s?Improved transportation allowed people to move to the suburbs Movement Question: What communication changes occurred in the 1920s?Telephones improved communicationRadio and the broadcast industry brought home entertainmentMovies created a new entertainment industryElectricityKey Question: How did electricity change the standard of living in the United States?Electric lighting changed sleeping/working patternsRadios entertained AmericansWashing machines, electric stoves, and water pumps saved Americans a lot of laborAirplaneKey Question: Who invented the airplane?The Wright brothersPeople and Factories Show an Increase in ProductivityKey Question: What helped make labor and factories more productive?Assembly line; perfected by Henry FordMachines replaced humans: mechanizationFactories could make products more quickly and with lower cost so products sold for lower prices.ProhibitionKey Question: What was Prohibition?18th Amendment: illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell alcoholLaws cannot force people to behave in certain ways and this law was almost universally ignoredResults of ProhibitionKey Question: What happened as a result of Prohibition?Speakeasies served illegal alcoholBootleggers made and smuggled alcohol and promoted organized crime21st Amendment repealed ProhibitionGreat Migration North and MidwestKey Question: Why did African Americans migrate to Northern cities?Jobs in the South were scarce and low paying, so African Americans moved to North and Midwest in search of better employment opportunities.African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the SouthAfrican Americans faced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.Harlem Renaissance (rebirth of African American culture)Key Question: What is the Harlem Renaissance?African American artists, writers, and musicians based in Harlem revealed the freshness and variety of African American culture.The popularity of the Harlem Renaissance spread beyond Harlem to the rest of society and its leaders established themselves as powerful forces of change. LeadersKey Question: Who were the key leaders of the Job?Harlem Renaissance? 1.Jacob LawrencePainter who chronicled the Great Migration2.Langston HughesPoet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots3.Duke EllingtonJazz composer4.Louis ArmstrongJazz composer5.Bessie SmithBlues SingerLeaders in Art, Literature, Music 1920s-1930sKey Question: Who were the leaders? Job?Georgia O’KeefeArtist who painted urban and Southwestern scenesF. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist who wrote about the jazz ageJohn SteinbeckNovelist who wrote about the strength of poor migrant workers in the 1930sAaron CoplandCreated uniquely American musicGeorge GershwinCreated uniquely American music ................
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