U.S. History

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

“The Lost Generation”

Silent Films

Starred Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford

“Talkies”

The Jazz Singer- 1st Hollywood Movie with sound

Babe Ruth became a national hero for hitting hundreds of homeruns

Jack Dempsey- World heavyweight boxing champ

Bobby Jones- Best Golfer of the 1920s

1919- Airmail extended across the continent

1926- Air Commerce Act- money for airports

1927- Charles Lindbergh- 1st transatlantic flight

SPORTS TRAVEL

Easy Consumer Credit

75% Radios bought on installments

60% Automobiles on installments

U.S. History

Louis Armstrong- Brought Jazz from Louisiana to New York

Jazz- Born in New Orleans and evolved during the 1920s throughout the big cities of the U.S.

Great Migration- Movement from the rural South to the industrialized North

Harlem Renaissance- African American artistic development, racial pride, and political organization

Langston Hughes- Leading voice of the African American experience in America

Zora Neale Hurston- Spirited portrayals of rural African American culture

I, too, Sing AmericaLangston Hughes

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed– I, too, am America

United Negro Improvement Association- Founded by Marcus Garvey

1. Gain economic and political power through education

2. Negro Nationalism3. Garvey encouraged

individuals to move to Africa

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)- Battled against segregation and discrimination, and the horrors of lynching

W.E.B. Dubois“We return. We

return from fighting. Make way for democracy! We saved it in France, and by Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why.”