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1 Notes by your peers separated by movie clips, music, and cartoons!!

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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)

6 Prohibition 18 th 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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


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