1. Popular Culture and Consumerism
The Roaring Twenties
Popular Culture and Consumerism
USHC-6.1
Explain the impact of the changes in the 1920s on the economy, society, and culture, including the expansion of mass production techniques, the invention of new home appliances, the introduction of the installment plan… the effect of radio and movies in creating a national mass culture…

2. Radio and Motion Pictures
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Synchronized Dialogue
75%
of Americans went to see a movie each week in the 1920s
Home Entertainment

3. The Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong

4. Actress and Flapper Icon
Celebrities
Clara Bow
Actress and Flapper Icon

5. Baseball Stars BABE rUTH Major league Baseball Andrew “Rube” foster
Negro Leagues
“The Bambino”
“The Sultan of Swat”
Baseball Hall of Fame: 1936
Baseball Hall of Fame: 1981

7. With The Spirit of st. louis
Charles Lindbergh
1927
First nonstop transatlantic flight
$25,000 Prize
Charles Lindbergh
With The Spirit of st. louis

9. The “Lost Generation”
Hemingway
Fitzgerald

10. and the Installment Plan
Advertising
and the Installment Plan

11. The Installment Plan
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