Objective 9.03 Analyze the significance of social, intellectual and technological changes of lifestyle in the United States

Radio By % of American homes owned at least one of these, Americans listened to music, ball games, soap operas, and dramas

Market/Advertising Propaganda that tries to convince consumers to buy your product

Louis Armstrong African American musician, mixed blues with jazz, brought blues and jazz to Harlem from New Orleans

Jazz Modern music of the 1920’s, part of the Harlem Renaissance, sometimes mixed with blues or “Big Band” sound

Silent and Talkies Moving pictures of the 1920’s

The Jazz Singer 1st feature length talkie, Al Jolson, about a Minstrel Singer

Lost Generation Term used by Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to describe society of the 20’s

Langston Hughes African American writer of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote about life in the cities

F. Scott Fitzgerald Critic of 1920’s materialism, wrote The Great Gatsby

Ernest Hemingway Critic of the Glorification of War, wrote about experiences in WWI

Sinclair Lewis American Novelist and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Speakeasies Underground bars during the 20’s

Bootleggers Nickname for people that smuggled illegal alcohol

Babe Ruth 1920’s Baseball star, Homerun King

Charles Lindbergh Famous for flying “The Spirit of St. Louis” across the Atlantic Ocean, 1st transatlantic flight

Automobiles Change American dating and courtship patterns, Developed for public use by Henry Ford

FDR’s Fireside Chat FDR’s radio talks to try and comfort the people of the US during the Great Depression