Cultural Fads_________: an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time- ___________________ - Dance - Marathons - Crossword Puzzles- Mah-Jongg_____________: dance originating in S. Carolina—moving to a quick beat, dancers pivoted their feet while kicking out first one leg, then the other, backward & forward

_____________________: young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking & acting- Wore hair bobbed, dresses short, bright red lipstick- To older Americans, flappers behaved & looked _______________________- Smoked cigarettes in public- __________________________________________- Drove fast cars- Very few were flappers – but soon older women would start trimming their

hair & wearing shorter skirts & makeup

_____________: music style that developed from blues, ragtime & other earlier styles

______________________: (1901-1971) one of the young African American musicians who helped create jazz- Learned to play the trumpet in a New Orleans ___________________- Experimentation with a simple melody paired with notes & rhythm - Many older Americans worried that jazz & new dances were a _______________ on the nation’s young people

New Writers- Many had horrifying experiences in WW1 & criticized U.S. for caring to much about money & fun- Some moved to Paris because they were unhappy in the states- __________________: people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land

Hemingway – was a teenager when WW1 broke out- _________________________________________________- A Farewell to Arms (novel – young man’s growing disgust with war- ___________________________ – examined the life of expatriates in Europe

F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby - examined the lives of wealthy young people who attended endless parties but could not find ____________________ (Flappers, bootleggers, moviemakers)

Sinclair Lewis- _________________– wrote novels that presented small-town Americans as dull & narrow-minded- First American to win the ____________________for literature in 1930

Langston Hughes - Poet- Encouraged ________________________ to be proud of their heritage- Wrote parallels between African Americans living on the Mississippi with Africans living along the Nile

Sports- Bobby Jones – ___________- Jack Dempsey – heavyweight boxing- Red Grange the “Galloping Ghost”- college football - Babe Ruth the “_________________________”—Baseball (most loved sport) NY Yankees - 714 Home Run record until 1974

Lucky Lindy________________________- May, 1927 – _____________________________________- 33 hour journey on the Spirit of Saint Louis, out of NY- No _______, no _________, no _____________- Landed in Paris, France

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