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Ch. 24-4

Ch. 24-4. Mrs. Manley . Charles Lindbergh- aviator; 1 st person to fly over Atlantic Ocean solo! Plane- Spirit of St. Louis 19 th Amendment- 1920 gave women the right to vote Women begin to work outside of home and some receive college educations.

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Ch. 24-4

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  1. Ch. 24-4 Mrs. Manley

  2. Charles Lindbergh- aviator; 1st person to fly over Atlantic Ocean solo! Plane- Spirit of St. Louis • 19thAmendment- 1920 gave women the right to vote • Women begin to work outside of home and some receive college educations. • Flapper- “liberated” women of the 1920s. Carefree, heavy make-up, bobbed hair, short skirts. Rebelling against traditional ways.

  3. Entertainment • Mass media- forms of communication like newspapers and radio • Labor-saving devices at work = more free time! • Tabloid magazines, newspapers, magazines, radio, phonograph records, movies; families often gathered around radio • Sports- baseball, Babe Ruth- homerun record! • Other fads- mahjongg, crosswords, flagpole sitting • Motion picture industry becomes leading business! Hollywood…

  4. Jazz Age • Jazz- new music with roots in the South and Africa- blend of ragtime and blues • Most famous: Louis Armstrong (NOLA), Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith

  5. Harlem Renaissance • HR- burst of creativity in the 1920s in African American artists, writers, painters in Harlem, NY. • Writers: Langston Hughes, poet; Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston

  6. Expatriate Writers • Expatriates- Americans who were unhappy with America and moved to other countries • F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemmingway- two famous Amer. Writers who moved away to search for inspiration • Sinclair Lewis & Sherwood Anderson- writers who stay in US to write.

  7. Prohibition • 18th Amendment- passed in 1919; est. prohinition- prohibits making, selling, consuming, having alcohol. • 21stAmendment- repeals (undoes) the 18th Amendment in 1933. • Bootlegging- result of prohibition, speakeasies- illegal bars • Organized Crime begins- Al Capone “Scarface”

  8. Nativism • Nativism- belief that people born here are better than foreigners • Ku Klux Klan rebirth • Emergency Quota Act- passed by Congress to place a limit on the # of immigrants allowed in US/ year.

  9. The Scopes Trial- a TN teacher breaks law by teaching evolution in school. Religion and society clash! • Election of 1928 • Coolidge does not run • Hoover runs and wins a landslide!

  10. 24-4 Quiz • What Amendment outlawed alcohol? It is also called Prohibition. • What Amendment repealed the Prohibition Amendment and allowed alcohol again? • What Amendment gave women the right to vote? • African American culture & pride flourished in the __________ ________. • This music had its roots in African American spirituals. • These people believed that native born Americans were better than foreigners.

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