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