The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• Technology Changes Lives
• Effects of New Technology

• Changing Society
• Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance
• New Kinds of Entertainment
• Early Aviators

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Essential Questions

• Why do people consider Babe Ruth and Charles
  Lindbergh to be American heroes?

• How did the art of Langston Hughes and Louis
  Armstrong represent cultural changes taking place
  in American during this era?

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.Technology Changes

• With cars.

• Improvements at home.

• Electricity in 70 of all homes
• Appliances make chores easier, less time consuming

• Travel is far easier
• Farmers can access supplies in towns
• Families travel for vacation
• Paved
• roads

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A Changing Society

• Roaring Twenties
• Progress was rapid and great.
• Many Americans drove cars for the first time.

• Women
• Played sports for the first time
• Went to college
• Worked outside the house

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..More advances for women

• Flew airplanes
• Wore their hair short
• Earned the right to vote.

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Harlem Renaissance- a center for music, art,
culture

• Music

• Literature, Art

• Was inspired by many enslaved Africans a
  variety of styles eventually turned into jazz.

• Writing and paintings were about the
  African-American experience
• Langston
• Hughes
• Zora
• Neale Hurston

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Authors, Artists, Musicians
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I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker
brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When
company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And
grown strong. Tomorrow, Ill be at the
table When company comes. Nobodyll dare Say to
me, Eat in the kitchen, Then. Besides, Theyll
see how beautiful I am And be ashamed I, too,
am American.

• Langston Hughes
• Biography
• Began writing poetry
• in 8th grade
• Worked in a restaurant,
• left three poems on the
• table of a famous poet.
• Author helped him
• publish
• his own work.
• Wrote poems, plays,
• novels, operas, musicals,
• short stories.

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more from Hughes

• Childrens Rhymes
• By what sends
• the white kids
• I aint sent.
• I know I cant
• Be President.
• What dont bug
• Them white kids
• sure bugs me.
• We know everybody
• Aint free.
• Lies writeen down
• For white folks
• Aint for us a-tall.
• Liberty And Justice
• Huh!For All?

• Still Here
• Been scared and battered
• My hopes the wind done scattered.
• Snow has friz me.
• Sun has baked me.
• Looks like between em they done
• Tried to make me
• Stop laughin, stop lovin, stop livin, --
• But I dont care!
• Im still here!

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New Kinds of Entertainment

• First radio broadcast
• (Harding elected President!)
• Radio stations broadcast music, movies, shows

• Babe Ruth
• Hollywood talkies

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Early Aviators

• Charles Lindbergh
• (First solo Transatlantic flight)
• Amelia Earhart
• (first woman to fly solo across the
  Atlantic)

• Wright Bros.
• (first in
• flight)
• Bessie
• Coleman
• (1st Afr.-American
• woman to earn
• a pilots license)

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