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This event was perhaps the most influential force on American writers of the early 20th century.
World War I
For many Americans, the war signaled an end to _______________________________
Idealism
The 1920s, with its booming economy, became known as the ________________________
Roaring Twenties
Many young people started to rebel as a group against ____________________________ and _____________________________________
the values of the past and the authority of their elders
True or false: people were able to spend more on goods and leisure activities with the rise in income.
True
The passage of the ______________________________ finally gave women the right to vote.
19 th Amendment
Female writers often wrote about the clash between _______________ and __________________ values, celebrating youth, independence and freedom from social constraints.
traditional and modern
What time period was prohibition?
1920-1933
What was prohibition?
banning of alcohol
In defense, people drank in illegal nightclubs called ____________________
Speakeasies
The __________________________ was a place where whites would go to hang out and listen to the great black jazz performers.
Cotton Club
There were so many great black jazz performers, thus the name ________________
Jazz Age
The good times came to an end when the stock market crashed in _______________
October 1929
During the Great Depression, many banks failed, businesses floundered, and ____________________________
Workers lost their jobs
The ______________________ was a severe drought the began in the early 1930s that added to the nation's pain.
Dust Bowl
Some people traveled to _______________ to try and find work.
California
Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to give the country a ________________________
New Deal
New Deal programs were intended to give relief to the __________________ and _________________ recovery of ______________ and __________________
homeless and hungry, recovery of agriculture and business
The 1920s was the first decade to be significantly shaped by the ________ _________
Mass Media
True or false: Mass media quickly became the ultimate source of the manufacturing of desire.
True
Some significant writers of the day began to criticize what they saw as Americans' ____________ and __________________
conformity and materialism
Writers of this period were influenced by exciting new ideas that were challenging Americans' _____________ ____________
Traditional views
In their work, poets began to explore the impact of _____________ ________________ and uncertainty on the individual.
Rapid change
Edger Lee Masters used ____________ ________________ TO probe the discontent beneath the apparent stability of small-town life in America.
Free verse
Poets like Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost are called _______________ _____________ because they connect past traditions with modern thoughts.
transitional poets
________________________ rose as a direct response to the social and intellectual forces shaping the 20th century.
Modernism
_______________________________ was a distinguishing characteristic of these writers.
Experimentation
The lack of ______________________ made any recognizable movement hard to sustain.
Stereotypes
_____________________ sought to recreate an image, not comment or interpret it.
Imagism
_________________ where poets let the objects they render speak for themselves.
Objectivism
Many poets today prefer to communicate through images rather than _________ _______________.
Direct statements
There was a period of great prosperity and economic growth in the ________ ___________ market.
Magazine stock
These authors wrote short fragmented stories without traditional ______________ or __________________.
Beginnings or endings
They left out ___________________________________________ leaving readers alone to figure out what might be going on or what a character might be feeling.
a narrative voice
The WPA was created to create as many jobs as possible as quickly as possibly, including work for the ________________ __________________ and _______________.
nation's artists and writers
Millions of black farmers and sharecroppers moved to the urban North in search of _____________________ and _______________________.
opportunity and freedom
This National Association published writings form the younger generation of authors.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
In this new generation, writers did not speak with only _______________.
voice
The Harlem Renaissance was brought to a premature end by the _______________________________________________.
economic collapse of the Great Depression