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Popular culture

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Culture of ordinary people

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Mass media

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Forms of communication (newspapers and radios) radios started broadcasting political info, news, sports, advertising (order through mail

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Talkie

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Movies with sound, jazz singer was the first

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19th amendment

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Right to vote

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Great migration

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Beginning in WW1, movement of millions of AA from S to N (Midwest) to take jobs in industry

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Renaissance

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Rebirth

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Harlem renaissance

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(1920-1930) AA created great literature and art Harlem NY race was a common theme known as negro movement.

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3 Harlem renaissance members

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  1. Langston Hughes
  2. Zora Neale Hurston
  3. James Weldon Johnson
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Lost generation

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Writers questioning Americans ideals (disappointed in america, settled in Paris)

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Expatriates

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People who choose to live in another country

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Flappers

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Girls who wore short skirts/dresses, bobbed their hair, smoked cigarettes, and drank alcohol

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Bessie Smith

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“Empress of the blues” best blues singer

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Blues

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(Feelings) soulful stable of music that evolved from AA spirituals usually with themes of unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression

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Jazz

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Mixture of blues and ragtime with syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements, developed in New Orleans

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Louis Armstrong

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Jazz singer

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Duke Ellington

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Pianist and composer (well dressed)

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Charles Lindbergh

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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.

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Bruno Hauptmann

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Arrested and sentenced to death

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Top 3 sports

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Baseball, football, and boxing

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Babe Ruth

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Outfielder, set record for home runs. Nickname Bambino First Boston Red Sox (pitcher) sold to NY yankees. Known for charity and reckless lifestyle

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Red grange

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Football hero 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes

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J. Dempsey

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Boxer set records

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Fundamentalism

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Thought everything in bible was completely true

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Prohibition

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Ban of alcohol

25
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Causes of Great Depression

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  1. Unbalance economy
  2. Credit crisis, buying on margin
  3. Banks failed
  4. International crisis
  5. Poverty
  6. The crash
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Depression

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A period when economic activity decreases, and unemployment is high

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Stock exchange

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Organized system of buying and selling shares (stocks) in a company

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Stock

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share of value in a company

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Broker

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Expert who buys stocks for consumers (fora fee)

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Black Thursday

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October 24th, start of fall

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Black Tuesday

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October 29th, bottom fell out

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Speculation

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Buying stocks and bonds hoping for a quick profit

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