The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• Chapter 10, Lesson 2, Page 328

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A Changing Society

• New Kinds of music, art, and literature became
  popular in the 1920s.
• The 1920s became known as the Roaring Twenties.
• Women played sports, went to college, and worked
  outside their homes in many types of jobs.
• Women drove cars for the first time.

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A Changing Society

• Some women even flew airplanes.
• Young women called flappers cut their hair short
  and wore knee-length skirts instead of skirts
  that went down to their ankles.

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Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance

• Music was changing too. A new type of American
  music called jazz, became popular.
• Jazz is a style of music that used a lot of
  improvisation. This means musicians decide which
  notes to play as they perform.
• Louis Armstrong, a singer and trumpeter, helped
  to make jazz popular in the 1920s.
• Jazz fit that decade so well that it was
  sometimes called the Jazz Age.

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Jazz and Harlem Renaissance

• Jazz began among African Americans who lived in
  the South.
• Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was
  famous for jazz.
• In the 1920s Harlem became a center for African
  American musicians, artists, and writers, such as
  the poet Langston Hughes.
• They painted pictures of and wrote about African
  Americans.

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Jazz and Harlem Renaissance

• This period became known as the Harlem
  Renaissance.
• A renaissance is a time when there is new
  interest in art, literature, music, and learning.

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New Kinds of Entertainment

• The first radio broadcast in the United States
  was in 1920.
• A broadcast is a program sent out over a radio or
  television station.
• Soon radio stations all over the country aired
  news reports and other programs.
• Families gathered around the radio each night to
  listen to music, comedy shows, and mystery
  stories.
• Radio commercials advertised everything from
  toothpaste to cameras.

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New kinds of Entertainment

• By 1925, more than two million homes owned
  radios.
• Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit
  60 home runs in a season.
• Movies became a favorite form of entertainment
  during the Roaring Twenties.
• At first, movies were silent. Then in 1927, the
  first movie with sound, called a talkie
  appeared, and movies became even more popular.

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Early Aviators

• The Wright Brothers made the first successful
  airplane flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North
  Carolina.
• An aviator is a person who flies an airplane.
• In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first
  person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
• People listened to radio reports of his daring
  flight, and he became a hero.

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Early Aviators

• Amelia Earhart was another aviator who set many
  flying records.
• Earhart inspired other brave and independent
  women to follow their dreams.