Chapter 24 – “The Roaring Twenties”
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Section 3 – The Jazz Age
Big Idea
Musicians, artists, actors, and writers contributed to American popular culture in the
1920s.
Key Terms and People –
talkie – A motion picture with sound created in 1927
The Roaring Twenties – The nickname for the 1920s because of the booming economy and
exciting forms of entertainment.
Jazz Age – Jazz originated in New Orleans; New dances, the Charleston, the Toddle, the Shimmy
Harlem Renaissance – A period of African American artistic accomplishment; Writers: Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston
Lost Generation- Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s; Ernest Hemingway was greatly
influenced by World War 1.
expatriates – People who leave their home country and live elsewhere
Georgia O’Keeffe – A Painter of the 1920s known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the
Southwest
Architects – embraced a style called art deco
Key Questions
1. How did American culture change during the 1920s?
Americans developed a national culture and placed more emphasis on activities involving arts
and leisure, such as movies and sporting events.
2. Where did jazz originate, and what musical styles influenced it?
It originated in New Orleans. It was influenced by spirituals, European harmonies, and West
African rhythms.
3. What were the major accomplishments of the Harlem Renaissance?
Artists produced plays, poems, and novels about African-American life.
4. How was the Lost Generation similar and different from the Harlem Renaissance?
Similar: Both groups expressed dissatisfaction with problems they saw in American society.
Diifferent: The Harlem Renaissance artists and writers were African-American and the Lost
Generation writers were white.