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1 Unit 5 Section 2 The Jazz Age
U.S. History Unit 5 Section 2 The Jazz Age

2 Timeline

3 Timeline

4 Scientific management

5 Scientific management

6 Scientific management
Every kind of work can be broken down into a series of smaller tasks Scientific management

7 Henry Ford

8 Henry Ford

9 Car manufacturer who lowered costs of cars by implementing scientific management
Henry Ford

10 Assembly line

11 Assembly line

12 The new production method employed by Henry Ford to implement scientific management
Increased the speed factories could make items Assembly line

13 Model T

14 Model T

15 A sturdy, low cost car developed and built by Henry Ford
Instant success, selling more than 250,000 cars a year Model T

16 Installment plan

17 Installment plan

18 Allowed for consumers to purchase cars by paying for their cars over time
Quickly moved to other large items such as washing machines, kitchen appliances, pianos, and sewing machines Installment plan

19 Planned Obsolescence

20 Planned Obsolescence

21 Products that are designed to go out of style
Models were updated regularly to get people to want new ones Planned Obsolescence

22 Volstead Act

23 Volstead Act

24 Act passed to enforce the 18th amendment
Defined what was alcoholic beverages and penalties for breaking the law Volstead Act

25 Speakeasy

26 Speakeasy

27 Clubs or bars that sold alcohol illegally
Usually secret rooms in the back of businesses such as restaurants. Speakeasy

28 Flappers

29 Flappers

30 Young women who defied traditional standards
Stopped wearing heavy corsets and began wearing shorter dresses Hair was often worn in short bobs They drove cars and played sports Flappers

31 Al Capone

32 Al Capone

33 Ruled Chicago’s underworld with his small army of gangsters
Controlled the sale of alcohol Used violence to maintain control Al Capone

34 Elliot Ness

35 Elliot Ness

36 A special agent hired to combat gangsters
Took Capone down on tax evasion charges Elliot Ness

37 Untouchables

38 Untouchables

39 Group of detectives hired by Elliot Ness to combat gangsters
Squeaky clean image gave them the name Untouchables

40 21st Amendment

41 21st Amendment

42 Repealed the 18th amendment in 1933
Made alcohol legal again 21st Amendment

43 Glenn Curtiss

44 Glenn Curtiss

45 An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U. S
An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry Led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company Glenn Curtiss

46 Charles Lindbergh

47 Charles Lindbergh

48 First person to fly from New York to Paris in a solo, nonstop flight
Used his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, to make the flight Charles Lindbergh

49 Scopes Trial

50 Scopes Trial

51 Trial where a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Law made teaching it illegal Case was used as a way to challenge the constitutionality of the law Scopes Trial

52 Clarence Darrow

53 Clarence Darrow

54 A lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925) Clarence Darrow

55 William Jennings Bryan

56 William Jennings Bryan

57 William Jennings Bryan
Was progressive in politics and a conservative in religion Lead prosecutor in the Scopes trial William Jennings Bryan

58 Tin Pan Alley

59 Tin Pan Alley

60 Name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists sold sheet music of popular songs for playing at home Tin Pan Alley

61 Bessie Smith

62 Bessie Smith

63 Blues Musician in the early 1920s.
Credited for bringing blues music to a broader audience. Bessie Smith

64 Louis Armstrong

65 Louis Armstrong

66 One of the best known jazz musicians of the 1920s
Played the trumpet to imitate the expressive singing style of the blues Louis Armstrong

67 Harlem Renaissance

68 Harlem Renaissance Countee Cullen and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Angelina Weld Grimké and Langston Hughes Alain Locke and Claude McKay Wallace Thurman and Carl Van Vechten

69 Awakening of black culture that took place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930s Area in New York that many of the black writers, musicians, and artists lived Harlem Renaissance

70 Langston Hughes

71 Langston Hughes

72 American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.
Early innovator of jazz poetry. Leader of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes

73 Ernest Hemingway

74 Ernest Hemingway

75 Early 20th century writer who wrote about World War I
One of the writers that became known as the Lost Generation Ernest Hemingway

76 F. Scott Fitzgerald

77 F. Scott Fitzgerald

78 Writer who chronicled the Jazz Age in his books
Most famous book was The Great Gatsby Also one of the Lost Generation writers F. Scott Fitzgerald

79 Questions?

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