NTK Unit 5 - Jazz Age

Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties

A nickname for the 1920s, highlighting the decade's cultural dynamism, economic prosperity, and social change.

Mass Production and the Automobile

The large-scale manufacturing of goods, especially cars, which made products affordable and transformed daily life.

Model T Ford and Assembly Line

The affordable car produced by Henry Ford using a moving assembly line that greatly increased production speed.

Silent Movies and "Talkies"

Early films without sound, followed by movies with synchronized sound starting in the late 1920s.

Hollywood Film Industry

The center of American movie production, which grew rapidly in the 1910s and 1920s in California.

Radio and Mass Communication

Broadcasting technology that spread news, entertainment, and advertisements to a nationwide audience.

Sports Heroes (Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Gertrude Ederle)

Athletes who became national icons and helped popularize sports in American culture.

Flappers and New Morality

Young women who embraced new fashions and freer social norms, representing changing gender roles.

Harlem Renaissance

A cultural movement celebrating African American art, music, and literature centered in Harlem, NYC.

Prohibition and the 18th Amendment

The legal ban on alcohol production and sale from 1920 to 1933.

Bootlegging and Speakeasies

Illegal production and sale of alcohol and secret bars during Prohibition.

Organized Crime (Al Capone)

Criminal enterprises that profited from illegal activities like bootlegging during Prohibition.

Nativism and Immigration Restrictions

Fear and distrust of immigrants leading to laws limiting immigration and promoting native-born Americans.

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

A controversial trial of two Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of murder amid anti-immigrant prejudice.

The Second Ku Klux Klan

A nationwide white supremacist organization in the 1920s promoting racism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism.

Scopes "Monkey" Trial

A 1925 Tennessee trial debating whether evolution could be taught in public schools, highlighting rural-urban cultural conflicts.

Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson

Popular evangelists who promoted fundamentalist Christianity and influenced 1920s social values.

Lost Generation Writers (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway)

Authors expressing disillusionment with postwar society and critiquing American culture.

Republican Ascendancy in 1920s Politics

The dominance of the Republican Party in national politics during the 1920s, emphasizing business interests.

Warren G. Harding Presidency and Scandals

Harding's administration (1921-1923) known for corruption scandals like Teapot Dome.

Calvin Coolidge's Presidency and Business Philosophy

Coolidge's pro-business, limited-government approach and belief that "the business of America is business."},{