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What were the Characteristics of Education & Culture During the 1920s?. Al-Madinah School || 11 th Grade Boys & Girls United States History & Government January 7, 2020. How did Education Change?. Factors That caused more students to go to schools Prosperity of America
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What were the Characteristics of Education & Culture During the 1920s? Al-Madinah School || 11th Grade Boys & Girls United States History & Government January 7, 2020
How did Education Change? • Factors That caused more students to go to schools • Prosperity of America • Business & Industries’ requirement for a more educated workforce • Number of Change of High School Students • 1914: 1million • 1926: 4 million
Changes in School • Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college • During 1920s schools offered wide range of courses • Vocational training • Home economics • Increased immigrant children in high schools
Impact of Education • Increased Literacy • More people were reading newspapers • Newspaper Chains rose • National magazines became popular • News Magazines also started • Magazines with fictions and articles • Radio became a powerful mass media • Created shared national experience
Popular Culture and New Heroes • More Money led to having new ways of spending • Fads: puzzles and games • Sports events • Golden Age of Sports &New Heroes • Athletes became popular • Charles Lindbergh: Cross Atlantic Flight
Popular Culture and New Heroes • Cinema became national pastime • The Jazz Singer (First Movie with Sound) • Steamboat Willie (First Animated Movie)
Popular Culture and New Heroes • Artists & Artistic Traditions • First break from European traditions • Eugene O'Neil: Wrote plays to depict confusion in American life • George Gershwin: New blend of American Jazz Music • Edward Hopper & Georgia O’Keeffe showed new style of American painting
Popular Culture and New Heroes • Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age”/ Earnest Hemingway another novelist • Writer Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature • Edna Vincent Millay (Poet) • Some disliked new American Culture calling it “lost generation” and left the country, like Gertrude Stein
Homework • Questions 1, 2, 4 & 5 on page 657
What is Harlem Renaissance and What Impact did It Have? United States History and Government Br. Siraj Tuesday, January 7, 2020
African Americans & Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration brought a lot of African Americans to Northern Cities • NAACP worked for the advancement of them • Writers and Artists worked for NAACP • James Weldon Johnson, poet & lawyer, fought for the anti-lynching laws • Marcus Garvey appealed to black pride – Formed UNIA
Harlem Renaissance • The literary and artistic movement of African Americans that began at Harlem neighborhood of New York City. • Calude McKay, Poet, urged for resisting discrimination • Langston Hughes: Wrote about the daily life of the working class blacks. • Zora Neale Hurston: Collected the folklore of poor southern blacks
Paul Robeson, actor and Singer • Louis Armstrong, the most influential Jazz musician • Duke Ellington, Jazz pianist and composer • Besse Smith & Josephine Baker, Singers
Homework • Terms and Names • Main Ideas Questions 1, 3, 5, and 7 • Page 666