The Jazz Age
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- 2 football stars
- Knute Rockne, Harold "Red" Grange
- First cartoon with sound
- Disney's "Steamboat Willie"
- The Jazz Age began with...
- ... the end of World War I
- 3 popular dancing styles
- Charleston, Black Bottom, Turkey Trot
- Cosmopolitan views on Cultural Civil War
- Sought liberation from Victorian past
- Main types of music in the 1920s
- Jazz and blues
- Nickname for confession magazines
- "True Romances"
- 2 literary activities in 1920s
- Book of the Month Club and Literary Guild
- John Scopes
- Prosecuted for teaching evolution to his students
- The Jazz Age ended with...
- ... the Great Depression
- 4 things that advocates of prohibition argued about drinking
- Links to wife and child abuse, eliminate corruption (stealing, etc), increase labor productivity, "patriotic"
- The beginning and end of Prohibition
- Jan. 16, 1920 - Dec. 5, 1933
- 3 major movie stars of the 1920s
- Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks
- 2 literary magazines of 1920s
- "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair"
- Traditionalist views on immigration
- Wanted it to stop
- First upscale magazine and its year of origin
- "The New Yorker" 1925
- Two groups involved in Cultural Civil War
- Cosmopolitan/Modernist/Urban vs. Traditionalist/Provincial/Rural
- 3 attributes to the Jazz Age
- End of WWI, decline in cultural values, technological developments
- Traditional views on Cultural Civil War
- Mourned "moral decay"
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Italian immigrants that were wrongfully accused of a crime and sentenced to death
- 6 most popular sports in the 1920s
- Competitive: boxing, football, baseball / Leisurly: golf, tennis, bowling
- ___ cents of every dollar was spent on entertainment
- 83
- The years of the Jazz Age
- 1918 - 1929
- 6 main effects of Prohibition
- Increase in corruption for law enforcement, increased organized crime, glamorized bootleggers, made drinking more popular, increased homicide, switch to hard liquor (easier to bootleg)
- 3 major jazz and blues artists
- Duke Ellington (jazz), Bessie Smith (blues), George Gershwin (jazz - white man)
- Prohibition was the _____ amendment
- 18th
- Year of "Hillbilly music"
- 1923
- 6 main issues of Cultural Battle Field
- Immigration, race, alcohol, evolution, gender politics, sexual morality
- Main cause for increased popularity of jazz and blues
- African-Americans migrating north
- 3 things found on the radio
- News, entertainment, advertising
- Common leisure activity
- Photography
- Widespread belief in evolution reflected...
- ... decline in religious influence
- Boxing star
- Jack Dempsey
- 2 baseball stars
- George Herman, Babe Ruth
- Year of first commercial radio station
- 1919
- 3 parlor games
- MahJong, crosswords, contract bridge