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the 1920s
chapter 25 section 3
| answer | question |
|---|---|
| expatriates | people who choose to live in a country other than their own |
| expatriatism | the spread of american culture to europe |
| jazz | music developed by the african americans during the 1920s |
| duke ellington | he brought new orleans jazz to the north in the 1920's |
| short working hours and labor saving appliances | these 2 things gave americans more leisure time |
| 25 cents | cost of a movie in the 1920's |
| radios movies cars phones | 4 new entertainments of the 1920s |
| charlie chaplin | most popular male movie star in the 1920s |
| louis armstrong duke ellington and bessie smith | 3 great jazz musicians |
| babe ruth | 1st baseball player to hit 60 homeruns in a year |
| mass media | communications which reach a large audience |
| KDKA | 1st radio station |
| better informed | positive effect of the radio |
| Popular culture | this is the songs, fads and slang of a time period |
| The Jazz Singer | 1st movie with sound |
| talkies | what movies with sound were called |
| Harlem | unofficial black capital of the United States |
| NYC-west side | location of the worlds largest black urban community |
| harlem renaissance | name for an explosion of african american culture which symbolized a rebirth and hope |
| langston hughes | harlem's most famous writes and poet |
| jazz | the combination of african rhythms blues and ragtime |
| new orleans | the birth place of jazz |
| cotton club | most famous jazz club which only allowed white customers |
| lost generation | people who were disappointed that WW1 ended the progressive era |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | write of The Great Gatsby |
| Louis Armstrong | world famous jazz player who played at the cottom club in Harlem |
| 1 million | number of houses with radios in 1929 |
| Babbit and The Great Gatsby | 2 novels which criticized or showed the negative side of the 1920s |