U.S. History

 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby  Sinclair Lewis Main Street  Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls “The Lost Generation”

 Silent Films Starred Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford  “Talkies” The Jazz Singer- 1 st Hollywood Movie with sound

 Babe Ruth became a national hero for hitting hundreds of homeruns  Jack Dempsey- World heavyweight boxing champ  Bobby Jones- Best Golfer of the 1920s  Airmail extended across the continent  Air Commerce Act- money for airports  Charles Lindbergh- 1 st transatlantic flight SPORTSTRAVEL

 Easy Consumer Credit 75% Radios bought on installments 60% Automobiles on installments

U.S. History

 Louis Armstrong- Brought Jazz from Louisiana to New York  Jazz- Born in New Orleans and evolved during the 1920s throughout the big cities of the U.S.

 Great Migration- Movement from the rural South to the industrialized North  Harlem Renaissance- African American artistic development, racial pride, and political organization

 Langston Hughes- Leading voice of the African American experience in America  Zora Neale Hurston- Spirited portrayals of rural African American culture

I, too, Sing America Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed– I, too, am America

 United Negro Improvement Association- Founded by Marcus Garvey 1. Gain economic and political power through education 2. Negro Nationalism 3. Garvey encouraged individuals to move to Africa

 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)- Battled against segregation and discrimination, and the horrors of lynching

W.E.B. Dubois “We return. We return from fighting. Make way for democracy! We saved it in France, and by Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why.”