Chapter 24 Unit 4 -- The Roaring Twenties
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- Radio
- Broadcast popular programs across the nation, music and shows, also advertisements.
- Mah-jongg
- Chinese board game popular in the 1920s.
- National Origins Act
- Reduced the annual country quota from 3 to 2 percent and based it on census of 1890, excluded Japanese immigrants.
- Leisure time
- Increased free time allowed more magazine reading, enjoying movies and phonograph records.
- Paul Whiteman
- White jazz musician helped bring jazz to a wider audience.
- Jazz
- One of America's most distinctive art forms -- a blend of ragtime and blues music which helped create a unique African American recording industry.
- Bix Biederbecke
- White jazz musician helped bring jazz to a wider audience.
- Hollywood, California
- Where motion picture industry became on of the country's leading businesses.
- Louis Armstrong
- Jazz trumpeter
- Babe Ruth
- Baseball sports idol who hit 60 homeruns in 1927.
- Duke Ellington
- Jazz pianist and composer
- Flapper
- Symbolized the new "liberated" free young women with short bobbed hair, short skirts and makeup.
- Charles Lindbergh
- In May 1927 became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in single-engine plane.
- Mass Media
- growth in forms of communication in the 1920s; newspapers and radio that reached millions of people.
- KDKA
- Pittsburgh radio station which broadcasted the presidential election returns for the first time in 1920.
- Bessie Smith
- Jazz singer
- The Jazz Singer
- First movie with sound (talkie) introduced in 1927.
- Role of Women
- More held jobs outside the home in the 1920s and increasing numbers of college-educated started professional careers, but vast majority remained home.
- Spirit of St. Louis
- Plane used by Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic.
- Jazz Age
- Era in the 1920s during which people danced to the beat of a new kind of music.
- Gertrude Ederle
- First woman to swim the English Channel.
- Nineteenth Ammendment
- Ratified in 1920 guaranteed women the right to vote in all states.
- Improvisation
- New rhythms and melodies made up during a performance. Used in jazz music.
- Red Grange
- Football hero, scored 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes.
- "Amos 'n' Andy" and the "Grand Ole Opry"
- Hit radio shows in the 1920s.
- Miss America Pageant
- Americans loved this event which was first held in 1921
- Harlem
- An African American section of New York City.
- Langston Hughes
- African American writer/poet inspired by rhythm and themes of jazz.