Unit 5 Section 2 The Jazz Age U.S. History Unit 5 Section 2 The Jazz Age
Timeline
Timeline 1920 - 1929
Scientific management
Scientific management
Scientific management Every kind of work can be broken down into a series of smaller tasks Scientific management
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Car manufacturer who lowered costs of cars by implementing scientific management Henry Ford
Assembly line
Assembly line
The new production method employed by Henry Ford to implement scientific management Increased the speed factories could make items Assembly line
Model T
Model T
A sturdy, low cost car developed and built by Henry Ford Instant success, selling more than 250,000 cars a year Model T
Installment plan
Installment plan
Allowed for consumers to purchase cars by paying for their cars over time Quickly moved to other large items such as washing machines, kitchen appliances, pianos, and sewing machines Installment plan
Planned Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence
Products that are designed to go out of style Models were updated regularly to get people to want new ones Planned Obsolescence
Volstead Act
Volstead Act
Act passed to enforce the 18th amendment Defined what was alcoholic beverages and penalties for breaking the law Volstead Act
Speakeasy
Speakeasy
Clubs or bars that sold alcohol illegally Usually secret rooms in the back of businesses such as restaurants. Speakeasy
Flappers
Flappers
Young women who defied traditional standards Stopped wearing heavy corsets and began wearing shorter dresses Hair was often worn in short bobs They drove cars and played sports Flappers
Al Capone
Al Capone
Ruled Chicago’s underworld with his small army of gangsters Controlled the sale of alcohol Used violence to maintain control Al Capone
Elliot Ness
Elliot Ness
A special agent hired to combat gangsters Took Capone down on tax evasion charges Elliot Ness
Untouchables
Untouchables
Group of detectives hired by Elliot Ness to combat gangsters Squeaky clean image gave them the name Untouchables
21st Amendment
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment in 1933 Made alcohol legal again 21st Amendment
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss
An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U. S An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry Led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
First person to fly from New York to Paris in a solo, nonstop flight Used his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, to make the flight Charles Lindbergh
Scopes Trial
Scopes Trial
Trial where a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Law made teaching it illegal Case was used as a way to challenge the constitutionality of the law Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
A lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925) Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan Was progressive in politics and a conservative in religion Lead prosecutor in the Scopes trial William Jennings Bryan
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley
Name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists sold sheet music of popular songs for playing at home Tin Pan Alley
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Blues Musician in the early 1920s. Credited for bringing blues music to a broader audience. Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
One of the best known jazz musicians of the 1920s Played the trumpet to imitate the expressive singing style of the blues Louis Armstrong
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Countee Cullen and Alice Dunbar-Nelson Angelina Weld Grimké and Langston Hughes Alain Locke and Claude McKay Wallace Thurman and Carl Van Vechten
Awakening of black culture that took place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930s Area in New York that many of the black writers, musicians, and artists lived Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Early innovator of jazz poetry. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Early 20th century writer who wrote about World War I One of the writers that became known as the Lost Generation Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writer who chronicled the Jazz Age in his books Most famous book was The Great Gatsby Also one of the Lost Generation writers F. Scott Fitzgerald
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