Chapter 13 Section 3 Notes Education More students in High School Why? From 2 – 4 Million Why? States start making it mandatory Increasingly Urban society Don’t need kids on farms Industry wants kids in school Didn’t want to train them Vocational schools increase Shop classes Schools assimilated new immigrants Learn English No bilingual ed. back then Taxes Raised to cover costs

Mass Media Definition – Anything used to get information to a large # of people More Newspapers Sold Overall Less Variety (Small papers went out of business or combined) Big City Papers became popular National Magazines More Popular Better transportation got them around the country quicker Main Reason for Increase in Print Media = More Education

Radio Expands Rapidly in the 1920s Most powerful way to communicate news, events, entertainment, and advertisements during the time. Went from being a hobby done by very few in the early 1920s to being in 40% of homes by the late 1920s WHY? Cost came down big time by the end of the decade

Entertainment in the 1920s People have extra time shorter work days Automation in factories People making more $$$ extra $ to spend Radio helps a lot (Sports, Music) Do all kinds of things as hobbies Dancing, Playing Cards, Flagpole Sitting!

Movies Early years – short, poor quality Nickelodeons (5 cents until mid 1910s) Grew in popularity during WWI. Attendance doubles in 5 years. Why? longer, better acting, better plots, bigger theaters Price becomes around 25 cents by end of the 1920s All silent before 1927 1st major movie star – Charlie Chaplin 1st movie with sound – Jazz Singer 1st cartoon with sound – Steamboat Willie

Sports Most popular = baseball (boxing a close 2nd) Babe Ruth NY Yankees Broke Home Run record (1935) Lasted 40 years Most popular athlete in 20’s Andrew “Rube” Foster Founded the Negro League “Father of Black Baseball”

Famous Pilots Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart 1st nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic (1927) NY to Paris Won $25,000 prize offered by hotel owner Orteig Clip on website Took 33.5 hours Became international hero Amelia Earhart 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932) Disappears in 1937 Presumed crash – Bermuda Triangle

1920s Writers most were critical of U.S. Focused on topics like Gov., Rich, War, Loneliness Many writers became part of “The Lost Generation” moved to Europe Became an expatriate gave up their U.S. citizenship didn’t like the U.S. WHY? Culture changes How the war was handled

Why so popular? super easy to read Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Babbitt 1st American to win Nobel Prize in literature F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby About excesses in U.S. after WWI Called the 1920’s “The Jazz Age” Ernest Hemmingway Most famous of all Only published 7 novels while alive The Sun Also Rises Farewell to Arms Theme of both = war is not glamorous Why so popular? super easy to read