1. Notes by your peers separated by movie clips, music, and cartoons!!

2. The Flapper Flapper - Brash women who wore short skirts, cut their hair, wore make up, listened to jazz, breaking social norms Significance: Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners

3. Automotive Mass Production –faster, more efficient means of producing identical products Henry Ford – mass produced the Model T (automobile) – makes it affordable to everyday Americans Assembly Line – a means of production in which the product is on a conveyor belt and assembled piece by piece Significance: Increase production & advance economy  people buying on credit & installment plans Henry Ford regarding the Model T, “You can buy any one you want, so long as its black”

4. Mass Media The Jazz Singer – first movie with sound (racist) Talkies –movies with sound NBC – (National Broadcasting Company) national radio station –Creates a national culture Significance: Increase communication, create national unity/culture

5. Hate Groups Knights of Mary Phagan – lynched Leo Frank (Jew), part of the recreation of the KKK KKK – white supremacist group – terrorize anyone who is NOT white and protestant Red Summer – race riots break out in 26 cities after WWI Significance: Discrimination prevails (racially, we are not progressing as a nation)

6. Prohibition 18 th Amendment – prohibition of alcohol Speakeasies – illegal bar where you can buy alcohol Al Capone – notorious gangster who is going to profit from prohibition Significance: Causes crime / illegal activity - Gangs control the cities

7. Immigration Communism – gov’t system where the gov’t owns everything, and everyone shares (anti- capitalism) Sacco and Vanzzetti – they robbed a guard and killed, they go to jail, and are executed (only convicted b/c immigrants) Red Scare – people are afraid of the spread of communism…target…??? Significance: Fear of communism  immigrant discrimination & restrictions

8. Jazz Age improvisation - spontaneous ("on the fly“) composing music Louis Armstrong – famous jazz trumpeter, becomes a leader in the jazz movement Cotton Club – club for white people to see jazz singers, brings AA culture into mainstream America Significance: New cultural expression, reduce racial tension

9. Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance – home to AA literary awakening Langston Hughes – poet of Harlem, wrote about the good and bad of AA lives (hopes and dreams of AAs) The New Negro – book written by Alain Locke, celebrate AA culture Significance: Develop of AA culture, encourage black pride

10. Popular Music Irving Berlin – song writer who made a new kind of music that changes America ( I’m dreaming of a white Christmas & Anything you can do, I can do better) Tin Pan Alley – producers of jazz music, birthplace of American popular music Charleston- new dance, with beats of popular ragtime music Significance: Development of American culture / unity

11. New Let’s Answer the EQ!!! Does the term ‘Roaring 20s’ appropriately describe the time period? i.e., what are the positives and negatives associated with the 20s?

12. Yes (positives)No (negatives) Soc/art 1. Flapper = freer behaviors and styles… independent woman 2. Mass Media: NBC creates national culture (American unity) 3. Popular music: blending of black and white culture; dance focuses on individual 4. Jazz Age: blending of black and white culture 5. Literature: Harlem celebrates black culture 1. Flapper: inept/ drunk/ strumpets/ not working 2. Mass Media – reinforces stereotypes (lil sambo – jazz singer) 3. Hate Groups: rise of KKK and race riots 4. Immigrant relations: red scare leads to discrimination of immigrants Pol 5. Prohibition leads to organized crime and gang control of city… backlash to progressives Eco 6. Mass Production: inc in credit and consumerism… affordable cars inc suburban sprawl