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 (Repealed by the 21st Amendment) Results Speakeasies, bootleggers and organized crime