ẞ - 1920s

Charles Lindbergh

First to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

Louis Armstrong

Famous jazz musician from New Orleans, played trumpet and brought Jazz to Harlem (renaissance)

John T. Scopes

Notable figure in the Scopes Trial, teacher who taught evolution in Butler Act

Al Capone

Most famous crime boss in Chicago

Flappers

Young women in the 1920s who embraced a new lifestyle of fashion, music, and social liberation

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural, social, and artistic movement of African Americans in the 1920s, A rebirth of AA culture and art, celebrated black identity, creativity, and intellectual achievements

Key people in Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes (poet), Zora Neale Hurston (writer), Duke Ellington (jazz pianist)

Laissez-faire economics

Belief that businesses should operate with minimal government intervention, and that an unregulated market would naturally benet the nation

Mass Media

Radio and Movies

Prohibition

National ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages (1920-1933, 18th to 21st). Increased organized crime, lost tax money, couldn't be enforced.

Speakeasy

Illegal establishment selling alcoholic beverages during Prohibition

KKK

Racist group commiting crimes against AA's, moved to the north because of the Great Migration

Scopes Trial

Scopes taught evolution in public schools, highlighted conflict between tradition and modernity (science v. religion)

19th Amendment

Women vote, prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.

Social Themes of 1920's

Social Liberation and Changing Gender Roles, Conict between Tradition and Modernity, Racial and Cultural Tensions

Advancement themes of 1920's

Technological and Media Innovations, Economic Transformation