2. 1920’s Women  Women wanted to break away from tradition.  Flapper- new, assertive woman who challenged the view of traditional women.  Double standard- women are held to stricter rules than men.  Women went to college.  Birth control became widely used.  Women faced pressure of juggling work and family

3. Education and Popular Culture  Schools-  Schools not just for college. (vocational schools)  Adjusting to teaching immigrant students  Costs and funding increase.  Mass circulation of newspapers and magazines.  Radio allows information immediately.

4. American Heroes  Sports and hobbies explode during the 1920’s.  Baseball and boxing…  Charles Lindbergh  Flew the first flight across the Atlantic (New York to Paris)  The Spirit of St. Louis

5. Arts and Entertainment  Movies  The Jazz Singer- first movie with sound (1927).  Walt Disney- Steamboat Willie- first animated film  George Gershwin  Combined traditional and jazz music  Distinctly American music  Painting  Edward Hopper- loneliness of American life  Georgia O’keefe- intensely colored New York.

9. Writers  Sinclair Lewis- first American to win Nobel Prized  Criticized American materialism  F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby- destructive lives of the wealthy.  Coined the phrase “The Jazz Age.”  Edna St. Vincent Millay- poems celebrate youth  Ernest Hemingway  Criticized the glorification of war  Lost Generation writers

10. The Harlem Renaissance  Marcus Garvey (UNIA)- tried to encourage African Americans to create a separate society  Promoted a “back to Africa” movement  Harlem Renaissance- literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.  Literature  Claude Mckay- expressed the pain and challenges of African- Americans  Langston Hughes- poems about the difficult lives of working class African Americans.  Zora Neale Hurston- novels about poor, uneducated blacks in the South.

11. Harlem Renaissance (cont)  Performers  Black performers became well known outside of Harlem.  Paul Robeson- dramatic actor supporting communism.  Louis Armstrong- trumpet player  The most important jazz musician in the history of jazz  Duke Ellington- jazz pianist and composer  Performed at the Cotton Club (NY)  One of America’s greatest composers.  Bessie Smith- a female blues singer