1920s Study Guide
Assembly Line – Henry Ford
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Communication Improvements
(Mass Media)
 Telephones
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Radio
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Broadcast
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Movies
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Newspaper
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Greater mobility
Jobs
Growth of Transportation
industries (gas stations,
mechanics, roads)
Growth of American suburbs
Electrification Improvements
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Labor saving products – washing machine, vacuum cleaner
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Electric lighting
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Entertainment – radio
Cultural Icons
Prohibition
Temperance Movement:
Groups opposed to the
making and consuming of
alcohol.
18th Amendment
Bans the manufacture, sale
and transport of alcoholic
beverages.
(Repealed by the 21st Amendment)
Results
Speakeasies, bootleggers and
organized crime
Harlem Renaissance
Georgia O’Keefe – painter/artist –
Urban and Southwest scenes
F. Scott Fitzgerald –writer- wrote about
Jazz Age (Great Gatsby)
John Steinbeck – writer- wrote about
the migrant workers during the Great
Depression
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin
Composed uniquely American music
Jacob Lawrence – Painted pictures of
the Great Migration North
Langston Hughes – poet- wrote about
the African American experience
Duke Ellington – Jazz composer
Louis Armstrong - Jazz
composers/trumpet player
Bessie Smith – blues singer
Great Migration North
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Jobs for African Americans were scarce in the South
(there were employment opportunities in the North)
African Americans faced discrimination in the South
 Better educational opportunities
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Be sure to study your terms in the 1920’s Glossary!