1920s Study Guide

Greater mobility

Jobs

Growth of Transportation

industries

Growth of American SUBURBS

Communication Improvements

Telephones-Alexander

Graham Bell

Radio – Guglielmo Marconi

Broadcast – David Sarnoff

Movies

Electrification Improvements

Labor saving products – washing machine, vacuum cleaner

Electric lighting

Entertainment – radio

Assembly Line – Henry Ford

The 1920s: the Jazz Age, The Roaring Twenties, The Harlem Renaissance

speakeasies: illegal bars and clubs which sold alcohol

bootleggers: people who made or sold illegal alcohol

Cultural Icons

Georgia O’Keefe – artist – Urban and Southwest scenes F. Scott Fitzgerald – wrote about Jazz Age John Steinbeck - wrote about the migrant workers during the Great Depression Aaron Copland and George Gershwin Composed uniquely American music

Harlem Renaissance

Jacob Lawrence – Painted pictures of the Great Migration North Langston Hughes – poet Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong Jazz composers Bessie Smith – blues singer

Great Migration North

Jobs for African Americans were scarce in the South (there were employment opportunities in the North)

African Americans faced discrimination in the South

Prohibition

Temperance Movement: Groups opposed to the making and consuming of alcohol. 18th Amendment Bans the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages. (Repealed by the 21st Amendment) Results Speakeasies, bootleggers and organized crime