20s, Causes Of GD Flashcards
Popular culture
Culture of ordinary people
Mass media
Forms of communication (newspapers and radios) radios started broadcasting political info, news, sports, advertising (order through mail
Talkie
Movies with sound, jazz singer was the first
19th amendment
Right to vote
Great migration
Beginning in WW1, movement of millions of AA from S to N (Midwest) to take jobs in industry
Renaissance
Rebirth
Harlem renaissance
(1920-1930) AA created great literature and art Harlem NY race was a common theme known as negro movement.
3 Harlem renaissance members
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- James Weldon Johnson
Lost generation
Writers questioning Americans ideals (disappointed in america, settled in Paris)
Expatriates
People who choose to live in another country
Flappers
Girls who wore short skirts/dresses, bobbed their hair, smoked cigarettes, and drank alcohol
Bessie Smith
“Empress of the blues” best blues singer
Blues
(Feelings) soulful stable of music that evolved from AA spirituals usually with themes of unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression
Jazz
Mixture of blues and ragtime with syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements, developed in New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
Jazz singer
Duke Ellington
Pianist and composer (well dressed)
Charles Lindbergh
First alone transalitic flight across Spirit of St 33 hours. Son gets kidnapped from home in NJ. 2 months later, body was discovered near home, fracture to the skull.
Bruno Hauptmann
Arrested and sentenced to death
Top 3 sports
Baseball, football, and boxing
Babe Ruth
Outfielder, set record for home runs. Nickname Bambino First Boston Red Sox (pitcher) sold to NY yankees. Known for charity and reckless lifestyle
Red grange
Football hero 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes
J. Dempsey
Boxer set records
Fundamentalism
Thought everything in bible was completely true
Prohibition
Ban of alcohol
