1920’s Social Changes
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Roaring Twenties
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nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade's prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom]
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Flapper
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a young woman of the 1920s who rejected traditional values and dress
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Charleston
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a dance that originated as an African American folk dance in the South and became popular throughout the United States and Europe during the Roaring Twenties
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Consumer Revolution
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a flood of new, affordable goods
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Consumer Culture
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consumer culture: a culture that views the consumption of large quantities of goods as beneficial to the economy and a source of personal happiness
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Credit
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an arrangement for buying something now with borrowed money and paying off the loan over time
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Installment Buying
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buying on credit by making an initial down payment and then paying the balance over time
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Popular Culture
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culture of ordinary people, including music, visual art, literature, and entertainment, that is shaped by industries that spread information and ideas, especially the mass media
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Harlem Renaissance
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the flowering of African American arts and literature in 1920s New York
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Eighteenth Amendment
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1919 Constitutional amendment that established Prohibition ( ban on alcohol)
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Volstead Act
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a law that gave the government power to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment
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Bootlegger
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someone who illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition
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Bruce Barton
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A leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation on Christ in The Man Nobody Knows
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Charles Lindbergh
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the first person to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared while trying to fly around the world.
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Henry Ford
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Founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines.
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David Sarnoff
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\"Father of Broadcast\" Developed RCA (1916)-> NBC. Had a vision of a \"radio music box\" for home use that might also pick up the news. Demonstrated 441-line TV screen at World's Fair. Father of broadcast.
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Charlie Chaplin
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popular silent film star
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The Jazz Singer
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the first talking motion picture
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Alice Paul
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Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.
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Margaret Sanger
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Founded American Birth Control League; which became Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Advocated birth control awareness.
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Louis Armstrong
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trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz
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Bessie Smith
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jazz singer known as the \"Empress of the Blues\"
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\"Lost Generation\"
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writers who rejected Victorian values after World War I and searched for new truths
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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author of The Great Gatsby and other novels that questioned the idea of the American dream
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Ernest Hemingway
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author of a Farewell to Arms who developed a new writing style
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Langston Hughes
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prolific writer who celebrated African American culture and life
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes O'Keeffe has been recognized as the \"Mother of American modernism\"
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Zora Neale Hurston
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folklorist and author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Babe Ruth
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baseball star known as the \"Sultan of Swat\" and the \"Bambino\"
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Jim Thorpe
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Famous Olympian, football, and baseball player who was elected president of what would become the NFL.
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Gertrude Ederle
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United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel
