1. Chapter 13 Section 3 Notes Education More students in High School Why?
From 2 – 4 Million
Why?
States start making it mandatory
Increasingly Urban society
Don’t need kids on farms
Industry wants kids in school
Didn’t want to train them
Vocational schools increase
Shop classes
Schools assimilated new
immigrants
Learn English
No bilingual ed. back then
Taxes Raised to cover costs

3. Mass Media
Definition – Anything used to get information to a large # of people
More Newspapers Sold Overall
Less Variety (Small papers went out of business or combined)
Big City Papers became popular
National Magazines More Popular
Better transportation got them around the country quicker
Main Reason for Increase in Print Media = More Education

4. Radio Expands Rapidly in the 1920s
Most powerful way to communicate news, events, entertainment, and advertisements during the time.
Went from being a hobby done by very few in the early 1920s to being in 40% of homes by the late 1920s
WHY?
Cost came down big time by the end of the decade

5. Entertainment in the 1920s People have extra time
shorter work days
Automation in factories
People making more $$$
extra $ to spend
Radio helps a lot (Sports, Music)
Do all kinds of things as hobbies
Dancing, Playing Cards, Flagpole Sitting!

6. Movies Early years – short, poor quality
Nickelodeons (5 cents until mid 1910s)
Grew in popularity during WWI.
Attendance doubles in 5 years. Why?
longer, better acting, better plots, bigger theaters
Price becomes around 25 cents by end of the 1920s
All silent before 1927
1st major movie star – Charlie Chaplin
1st movie with sound – Jazz Singer
1st cartoon with sound – Steamboat Willie

9. Sports Most popular = baseball (boxing a close 2nd) Babe Ruth
NY Yankees
Broke Home Run record (1935)
Lasted 40 years
Most popular athlete in 20’s
Andrew “Rube” Foster
Founded the Negro League
“Father of Black Baseball”

10. Famous Pilots Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart
1st nonstop solo flight across
the Atlantic (1927)
NY to Paris
Won $25,000 prize offered
by hotel owner Orteig
Clip on website
Took 33.5 hours
Became international hero
Amelia Earhart
1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932)
Disappears in 1937
Presumed crash – Bermuda Triangle

11. 1920s Writers most were critical of U.S. Focused on topics like
Gov., Rich, War, Loneliness
Many writers became part
of “The Lost Generation”
moved to Europe
Became an expatriate
gave up their U.S. citizenship
didn’t like the U.S. WHY?
Culture changes
How the war was handled

12. Why so popular? super easy to read Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote Babbitt
1st American to win
Nobel Prize in literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote The Great Gatsby
About excesses in U.S. after WWI
Called the 1920’s “The Jazz Age”
Ernest Hemmingway
Most famous of all
Only published 7 novels while alive
The Sun Also Rises
Farewell to Arms
Theme of both = war is not glamorous
Why so popular?
super easy to read