Roaring 20’s American life changed during 1920’s

Rise of living standards More Jobs Better pay

Women in the 1920’s

Had more time outside of the home because of new labor saving devices – Washing Machine Telephones – StovesRadio Movies

Flappers

Women who rebelled by dressing and acting differently

Georgia O’Keefe

Painter of the Southwest

Temperance Movement

The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Led to the 18 th Amendment. Strong connection with Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Prohibition

Law against the making or selling of alcoholic beverages

What did the 18 th Amendment do?

made manufacturing, transporting, and selling alcohol illegal

Bootleggers

People who transported or sold illegal alcohol during the Prohibition Era Al Capone

Speakeasies

Illegal saloons that sprang up across the United States following the passage of the 18 th Amendment

What is a result of Prohibition?

Growth of organized crime Al Capone

21 st Amendment

Ended Prohibition

Harlem Renaissance

A flowering of African American art, poetry, and writing during the 1920s, centered in the New York City neighborhood known as Harlem

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better jobs and less discrimination

Jacob Lawrence

Painter of the Great Migration Series

Jazz Age

The period in American history when African and European musical traditions blended, creating the unique American music known as jazz

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wrote about the Jazz Age

Other People

Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” – Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” – Duke Ellington “Taking the ‘A’ Train” – Aaron Copland “Hoedown” –

What two Americans built & flew the first airplane?

The Wright Brothers

Langston Hughes

Poet of the 1920’s & 1930’s Langston Hughes “Weary Blues” wvC5s4n8

John Steinbeck

Wrote about migrant workers in California