US History - The Jazz Age (1920s)

Explain the differences between Urban and Rural culture.

Urban world of honey moss crowds, stranger, money makers, and pleasure seeker. Rural life safe, close, personal ties, hard work and moral Urbanization continue to accelerate, most American lived in cities than in rural area (NYC pop. 5 mil. and Chicago pop. 3 mil.)

How did view change about marriage and raising children?

Modern family: Marriage based on romantic love, developing children would be nurturing and gain education

What was the rationale behind passing the 18th amendment?

Prohibit the production, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. It was done to promote temperance and address concern about negative social and health effect of alcohol. Prevent spouse abuse

Explain the 19th amendment

1920, granted women the right to vote

How did the automobile change American society? How dependent was the economy on this new consumer good?

Revolutionized transportation making it faster and convenient to travel. Development of suburbs far away can commute. It created jobs stimulated growth in related industries like oil steel, and rubber.

Flappers

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion; embracing new fashion and urban attire (modern and progressive lifestyle of women)

The first "Talkie"

"The Jazz Singer" (1927) widely recognized; first film with synchronized dialogue.

Who developed Jazz Music?

African Americans

Explain what the Harlem Renaissance represented.

Home to a literary and artistic revival of African American, largest black urban community, Apollo theater cultural and artistic movement that celebrated African American identity through literature, music, and visual arts.

What did the United Negro Improvement Association represent?

Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 representing Black nationalist and Pan-Africanism. To uplift African descent, black pride and economic independence

What did it say about American society with the rise of big name celebrities during this era?

More leisure time and money. Cultural, technological, and social changes

Buying stock on margin.

Borrowing money from a brokerage firm to purchase stocks

Al Capone

A famous Chicago gangster who made a fortune ($60 million in one year) off of bootlegging, and "murdered" his way to the top of the crime network, buying off public officials, the police, and judges. He was not convicted of any wrongdoing, however, until a judge in a federal court convicted him of income-tax evasion and sent him to jail in 1931.

Scopes Trial

a highly publicized trial in 1925 centered around teaching of evolution in school. John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school (which contradicted the Bible)

Immigration Act of 1924

Restrict immigration and establish a quota system based on national origins. They would se quotas that discriminated against Southern and Eastern European immigrants

Lost Generation

A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. Prominent writers included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos among others.

Claude McKay

literary artist poem, expressing the pain of life in the ghetto; wrote about race, identity, and social and political challenges

Langston Hughes

working class poet, describing the difficult lives of working-class blacks, Black identity/culture, social justice and equality

Louis Armstrong

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.

Edward "Duke" Ellington

a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the famous Cotton Club, won renown as one of America's greatest composer

Bessie Smith

highest paid black Aritst African American blues singer with the most outstanding vocalist of the decade who played an important role in the Harlem Reniassance.