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Roaring 20’s American life changed during 1920’s
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Rise of living standards More Jobs Better pay
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Women in the 1920’s
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Had more time outside of the home because of new labor saving devices – Washing Machine Telephones – StovesRadio Movies
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Flappers
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Women who rebelled by dressing and acting differently
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Georgia O’Keefe
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Painter of the Southwest
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Temperance Movement
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The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Led to the 18 th Amendment. Strong connection with Women’s Suffrage Movement.
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Prohibition
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Law against the making or selling of alcoholic beverages
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What did the 18 th Amendment do?
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made manufacturing, transporting, and selling alcohol illegal
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Bootleggers
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People who transported or sold illegal alcohol during the Prohibition Era Al Capone
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Speakeasies
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Illegal saloons that sprang up across the United States following the passage of the 18 th Amendment
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What is a result of Prohibition?
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Growth of organized crime Al Capone
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21 st Amendment
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Ended Prohibition
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Harlem Renaissance
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A flowering of African American art, poetry, and writing during the 1920s, centered in the New York City neighborhood known as Harlem
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Great Migration
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Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better jobs and less discrimination
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Jacob Lawrence
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Painter of the Great Migration Series
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Jazz Age
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The period in American history when African and European musical traditions blended, creating the unique American music known as jazz
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote about the Jazz Age
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Other People
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Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXShOJVwaM Duke Ellington “Taking the ‘A’ Train” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY Aaron Copland “Hoedown” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs
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What two Americans built & flew the first airplane?
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The Wright Brothers
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Langston Hughes
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Poet of the 1920’s & 1930’s Langston Hughes “Weary Blues” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyq wvC5s4n8
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John Steinbeck
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Wrote about migrant workers in California
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