Notes by your peers separated by movie clips,
music, and cartoons!!
The Flapper
• Flapper - Brash women who wore short skirts, cut their hair, wore make up, listened to jazz, breaking tradition
Significance: women felt
freer to experiment with bolder
styles & manners
Automotive
• Mass Production –faster, more efficient means of producing identical products
• Henry Ford – mass produced the Model T (automobile) – makes it affordable to everyday Americans
• Assembly Line – a means of production in which the product is on an conveyor belt and assembled piece by piece
Significance:Increase
production & advance
economy people buying
on credit & installment
plans
Mass Media • The Jazz Singer – first
movie with sound (racist- black face make up)
• Talkies –movies with sound
• NBC – (National Broadcasting Company) national radio station
Significance: Increase
communication, create national unity/culture
Hate Groups
• Knights of Mary Phagan – lynched Leo Frank (Jew), part of the recreation of the KKK
• KKK – white supremacist group – terrorize anyone who is NOT white and protestant
• Red Summer – race riots break out in 25 cities after WWI
Significance: Discrimination
prevails (racially we do not progress as
a nation)
Prohibition
• 18th Amendment – prohibition of alcohol
• Speakeasies – illegal bar where you can buy alcohol
• Al Capone – notorious gangster who is going to profit from prohibition
Significance: Causes crime / illegal activity
- Gangs control the cities
Immigration
• Communism – gov’t system where the gov’t owns everything, and everyone shares (anti- capitalism)
• Sacco and Vanzzetti – they robbed a guard and killed, they go to jail, and are executed (only convicted b/c immigrants)
• Red Scare – people are afraid of the spread of communism
Significance: Fear of
communism immigrant discrimination & restrictions
Jazz Age
• improvisation - spontaneous ("on the fly“) composing music
• Louis Armstrong – famous jazz trumpeter, “Ambassador of Jazz”
• Cotton Club – club for white people to see jazz singers, brings AA culture into mainstream America
Significance: New cultural expression,
reduce racial tension
Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem Renaissance – home to AA literary awakening
• Langston Hughes – poet of Harlem, wrote about the good and bad of AA lives
• The New Negro – book written by Alain Locke, celebrate AA culture
Significance: Develop of AA
culture, encourage black pride
Popular Music
• Irving Berlin – song writer who made a new kind of music that changes America ( Anything you can do I can do better & I’m dreaming of a White Christmas)
• Tin Pan Alley – producers of jazz music, birthplace of American popular music
• Charleston- new dance, with beats of popular ragtime music
Significance: Development of American
culture / unity