 Henry Ford had a great impact on American society by:  A further dividing the classes by making only a few cars for wealthy buyers.  B discovering a way refine crude oil into cheap gasoline for automobiles.  C developing numerous railroad systems that connected the entire country.  D using an assembly line to mass-produce cheap and efficient cars.

 Henry Ford had a great impact on American society by:  D using an assembly line to mass-produce cheap and efficient cars.

 SSUSH 16  Identify key developments in the aftermath of WWI; the Harlem Renaissance and the origins of Jazz

Flowering of African American Culture and the Jazz Age

 1) During the 20s, African Americans were moving north to cities  2) The Great Migration was taking place  New jobs  Escaping “Jim Crow”  3) In the 20s, 1.5 million African Americans move northward  Chicago, Detroit, NYC

 1) Many African-Americans moved to Harlem, a city in Manhattan Island, NY  1920 – it’s the world’s largest African-American community  2) Harlem Renaissance – growth of African American artistic expression in the 20s  3) Langston Hughes – moved to Harlem in 1921, became a popular and influential poet

 Though largely a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance helped birth a major style of music  4) Jazz was created in the early 1900s in New Orleans  5) Jazz was a fusion of improvisational music styles with blues  After the Great Migration, African-Americans took jazz to northern cities and it really took off  6) Louis Armstrong – probably the most influential jazz musician of all time

 1) The Roaring 20s  2) The Harlem Renaissance