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Topic 1.4 - Cultural Changes Flashcards

1
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State three notable artists of the 1920s

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  • Count Basie
  • Duke Ellington
  • Louis Armstrong
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What was the genre of literature during the 1920s?

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Focus on disillusion and despair

Particularly in terms of the stifling morality and material obsessions in American Life.

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3
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State two popular fad sports in the 1920s

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  • Crossword puzzles - Increasing popularity
  • Flagpole sitting - decreasing popularity.
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4
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When was the first modern crosswords published?

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1917

Boston Globe

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When was the first book of puzzles published and by whom?

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1923

Simon and Schuster

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Give two examples of popular card games

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  • Mahjongg
  • Contact Bridge
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Give an example of a dance marathon

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Chicago marathon went on for 119 days

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Give examples of new leisure activities that emerged in the 1920s

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  • Dance Marathons
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Card games
  • Roller-skating
  • Rocking horse derbies
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9
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What was the bunion derby?

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1929

  • ran coast to coast
  • An attempt at 3,400-mile transcontinental race.
  • 55 runners actually accomplished the feat
  • 84 days running
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Who was the original creator of flagpole sitting?

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Shipwreck Kelly

  • A failed boxer calling himself the luckiest fool alive.
  • 1929- spent 145 days on various flagpoles.
  • One of the emulators 15 y/o Avon Foreman sat for 10 days.
  • keeping the spirit of early America alive
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11
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State two dances created due to jazz music.

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Charleston

Black bottom

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12
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What was the nickname given to women who seemed to have little moral restraint?

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Flappers

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13
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Give an example of a radio station in the 1920s

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KDKA in Pittsburgh set up 1920

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14
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By 1922 how many radio stations were there in America?

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500

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What was the first national network? and the second?

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NBC - 1926

CBS - 1927

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Why were some people scared of radios and tv’s?

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Invisible energy flying through the air must be dangerous and cited dead birds as evidence.

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17
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How many people listened to the 1927 boxing match between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey?

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50 million

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18
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How much did a typical model radio cost?

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$150

usually paid on credit

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19
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What proportion of furniture was spent on radios?

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33% 1927

  • 1923 - 1930 60% families had radios.
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20
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How much was spent on radios in 1929 compared to 1923?

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1923 - $60 million

1929 - $842 million

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21
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Give an example of a company advertising/ sponsoring radios

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  • August 1929
  • Toothpaste company Pepsodent sponsored comedy series ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ on NBC
  • 40 million
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22
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Where was the centre of the cinema industry?

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Hollywood, LA

4th largest capital investment

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23
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In one day how many people went to the movies?

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10 million people in 20,000 cinemas.

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24
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How many cinema’s were there in America 1920s?

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20,000

  • Eg. the Roxy in NYC Costing In the region $7-$10 million to build.
  • Including - Three organs, A huge chandelier, A red carpet worth $10,000 and 118-piece orchestra.
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25
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Who was the ‘It Girl’ and what did she symbolise?

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Clara Bow

Symbolised the modern liberated women

26
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Who was known as the ‘vamp’ and what did she symbolise?

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Theda Bara

Exuding a dangerous sexuality.

27
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Who was the action hero of America 1920s?

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Douglas Fairbanks

28
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Name two comic geniuses in America 1920s

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  • Buster Keaton
  • Charlie Chaplin
29
Q

State the first sound film

A

The Jazz Singer

1927

30
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State two emerging sports in the 1920s

A

Boxing

Baseball

31
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How many people watched the Demsey-Tunney match?

A

50 million

22 September 1927

32
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Who was a famous boxer in 1920s?

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Jack Dempsey

  • Made $10 million
33
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Who was a famous baseball player in the 1920s?

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Babe Ruth

  • $80,000 - Salary
  • $1 million - Over playing career
34
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Give two examples of baseball players

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New York Yankee team-mates

  • Babe Ruth
  • Lou Gehrig
35
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State a baseball stadium in America

A

West Side Grounds in Chicargo

36
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What made baseball so popular?

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  • Charismatic players
  • Introduction of cork-centred ball that was easier to hit.
  • Increased the fascination with the spectacular home runs
37
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What was the baseball league for black Americans?

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the Negro National Baseball League

  • 1920
  • East-West All Star game saw 30,000 spectators.
  • Players earning less than half those of white counterparts
  • playing 3 times a day every day
  • The biggest black-American owned business in the USA
38
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What law did President Harding fail to pass in 1922?

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Bill to outlaw lynching

39
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Where represented the ghettoisation of America?

A

Harlem

  • Population growth
    • 1914 - 50,000
    • 1930 - 165,000
  • Rents doubled 1919-27
40
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What did James Weldon Johnson do?

A

A black American poet

Wrote ‘The Making of Harlem’ + The weary blues

41
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What did Alain Locke think?

A

History of suffering through slavery and persecution gave black Americans a unique susceptibility to respond to the arts.

42
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Who was the king of swing?

A

Benny Goodman

43
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What stage production took place in 1921?

A

Shuffle Along

44
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Why would White Americans go to Harlem?

A

Experienced the exotic in Cotton Clubs and Plantations.

45
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Who were the audience in cotton clubs?

A

The high prices made exclusive to only the relatively rich

46
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What did Claud McKay think about Harlem?

A

Poet

An all-white picnic ground

47
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What anthology did ‘the New Negro’ follow?

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Alain Locke’s anthology of 1925

48
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Year - Slavery abolishment

A

1865

49
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What did the case of Plessey v. Ferguson do?

A

After 1896 segregation became legalised.P v F - separate but equal- Jim Crow laws

50
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What did the Crisis magazine write about?

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  • Fought passionately for ethnic rights
  • W.E. Dubois’s magazine.
51
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What three Black American Artists were very influential?

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  • Alaine Locke
  • Claud McKay
  • Langston Hughes
52
Q

What did Marcus Garvey believe?

A

Separation between the races.

53
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What did Marcus Garvey set up?

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  • Universal Negro Improvement Society
  • Black Cross - medical care
  • Black Star Shipping Line - passengers to African ports.
  • Ran ‘Back to Africa’ campaign
54
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Who was the recipient for the first Literature Nobel Prize in America?

A

Sinclair Lewis

55
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What did many people think about American culture in the 1920s?

A

Complained it was two concerned with materialism and economic growth to appreciate the arts.

56
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What did F. Scott. Fitzgerald do and write about?

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  • Coined phrase ‘jazz age’.
  • Wrote the Great Gatsby
  • about the superficially hedonistic lifestyle of the young that concealed a deep malaise.
57
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What did Hemingway write?

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The sun also rises (1926)

58
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What did Sinclar Lewis write?

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  • Main street (1920)
  • Babbit (1925)
59
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What publication was most widely followed in the 1920s?

A

The Saturday Evening Post Scott Fitzgerald, Zane Gray and Max Brand.

Fictional serials

60
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Who wrote Tarzan?

A

Edgar Rice Burroughs

61
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What was one of the most popular magazines in the 1920s?

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Reader’s digestfounded in 1922

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