Chapter 11 – Section 3 Society in the 1920s.

1. Why did the 1920s earn the nickname the “Roaring Twenties?” 2. What happened to many young smart American thinkers after the war? 3. Why were these people called the “Lost Generation?” 4. How was America at this time “superior” to much of Europe?

5. How were we still “inferior?” 6. What two American writers living in Paris emerged as important literary minds? 7. What two classics did F. Scott Fitzgerald write and what were they about? 8. Where did many other American artists and writers flock to and who were two of them who helped Americans to see themselves as the cultural “equals” of the Europeans?

9. How did women begin to emerge from being held down in the 1920s? 10. What was the biggest step towards the liberation of American women? 11. Who were flappers? 12. What was the flapper image? 13 What happened to women’s behaviors?