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1 The Jazz Age/Roarin’ Twenties

2 New Morality-Challenge Tradition

3 Glorifying Youth and Personal Freedom

4 Popularized in the Media

5 Focus on Romance

6 Reaction Against the Strict Morals of the late 1800s and early 1900s

7 Jobs

8 Consumer Culture

9 Women & the Automobile

10 Flappers

11 Flappers Great Gatsby Video

12 Prohibition

13 “Noble Experiment” The 18th amendment makes the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcohol illegal. The Volstead Act … defines what “intoxicating liquors” are sets up consequences for breaking the 18th amendment Creates government group to enforce the 18th amendment

14 Speakeasies

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17 Organized Crime

18 Artistic Expression

19 Pop Culture

20 “Jazz Singer”

21 Harlem Renaissance Artists
Claude McKay (author) Langston Hughes (poet) Zora Neale Hurston (author) Louis Armstrong (jazz musician) Duke Ellington (composer/pianist) Josephine Baker (dancer) video

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