1. PDN
In your writing log, answer the following question: What do you think this picture is trying to say?

2. The Roaring 20s
Chapter 13 Sections 1 and 2

3. Women Flapper-a bold, fun-loving young woman
symbolized a revolution in manners and morals
Flappers challenged standards of dress, hairstyle, and behavior.
Many disapproved of flappers’ free manners as well as the departure from traditional morals

4. Women’s Suffrage
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote (1920)
At first, many women did not exercise their right to vote.

5. Growth of the Suburbs
While cities continued to grow, many Americans moved from cities to suburbs.
Improvements in transportation made travel between the cities and suburbs increasingly easy.

6. The Great Migration
Great Migration-African Americans moved from rural South to take jobs in northern cities.
Industrial expansion created more jobs migration north.
After WWI, many refugees came to the U.S.
Certain areas became centers for immigrants.

7. Event-The Great Migration
Cause
Effect
Event-The Great Migration

8. Mass Media
Mass media-tools for communicating with large numbers of people
helped form a common popular culture
movies with sound were introduced in 1927.
Influence of radio grew
Networks gave the same music,
news, and commercials around
the country.

9. Cultural Heroes
Charles Lindbergh- first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris
Amelia Earhart- set records as the 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Disappeared on a flight in 1937
George Herman Ruth- “Babe” Ruth set home run marks for the NY Yankees

10. Jazz Age
Jazz, a style of music that grew out of the African American music of the South became popular in NYC
Jazz pioneers Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong made important contributions to jazz music.

11. Harlem Renaissance
Beyond jazz music, Harlem emerged as an cultural center for African Americans.
Expressing the joys and challenges of being African American, writers enriched Af. Am. culture as well as American culture
as a whole.
Zora Neale Hurston and
Langston Hughes

12. Other Art Literature- The “Lost Generation”
Novelist Sinclair Lewis was the 1st American to win the Nobel Prize for literature
The “Lost Generation”
a group of people disconnected from their country and its values.
Included Ernest Hemingway and others

13. Review Questions Why was the Flapper a change in American society?
What caused the Great Migration?
What did the 19th amendment do?
How did Mass media impact American culture?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?