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History chapter 24
lesson 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| KDKA | first commercial radio station |
| NBC | national broadcasting company |
| CBS | coulmbia broadcasting company |
| The Jazz Singer | first motion picture with sound |
| Talkie | motion picture with sound |
| Mary Pickford | Americas Sweatheart |
| George Herman "Babe" Ruth | shattered the home run record |
| Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson | famous negro baseball players |
| Gertrude Ederle | became the first women to swim the English channel between England and France |
| Charles Lindbergh | dominated the national news in 1927 when he completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic ocean traveling from New York to Paris |
| Amelia Earhart | became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| Sigmund Freund | devolved psychoanalysis |
| Psychoanalysis | method for examining human behavior to find out why people behave the way they do |
| Roaring Twenties | 1920's became known as this because of booming economy and exciting forms of entertainment |
| Jazz Age | explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the 20's this nickname |
| Dances of the Twenties | Charleston, toddle , and shimmy |
| Louis Armstrong | experimented with his voice to make new sounds and rrhythms to make a new kind of music |
| Bessie Smith | became known as empresses of the blues for her music |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of African american artistic accomplishment |
| Langston Hughes | produced poems, plays, and novels about African american life |
| Claude McKay | poet and artist who spoke out against racial discrimination |
| Zora Neale Aurston | wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" |
| Earnest Hemingway | wrote short stories and novels and gained fame for his powerful and direct writing style |
| Lost Generation | writers who criticized American society in the 1920's |
| Expatriates | people who leave their home country to live elsewhere |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | wrote "The Great Gatsby and focused on the loss of mortality behind the seemingly fun and free-spirited times of the Jazz Age |
| Sinclair Lewis | first African American to receive the Nobel prize in literature |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | well known for her detained paintings of the flowers and of the Southwest |
| Deco | new architect style |
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