A | B |
made Henry Ford's Model T's affordable | Assembly line |
How automobile changed life | improved roads, new jobs, lives away from jobs |
romantic dramas paid by soap companies | Soap Operas |
Duke Ellington | Jazz composer and bandleader |
Louis Armstrong | Trumpet player (St. Louis Blues) |
Bessie Smith | new dances, blue singer (St. Louis Blues) |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | wrote books on Jazz |
Langston Hughes | wrote poems, books and plays about African Americans |
Zora Neale Hurston | wrote about African American women |
Jacob Lawrence | Painter of African American life |
Charles Lindbergh | 1st pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic |
Amelia Earhart | Female pilot |
Georgia O'Keeffe | painter of nature scenes |
Preservation Hall/ Mardi Gras | New Orleans, LA |
Reason Prohibition failed | slippery bootleggers |
Jacob Lawrence | Harlem Renaissance painter |
Mass media/athletes/1920's | fnas listened to games on the radio |
changes for working life of women | factories to offices |
Great Depression | high prices, banks closed, soup kitchens, homeless |
New Deal | paid elderly, disabled, unemployed, social security |
Dust Bowl | people became migrant workers |
New form of entertainment in 1930's | comic books (superman & batman) |
Guglilmo MARCONI | physicist, inventor, 1st radio message across Atlantic |
Los Angeles | Largest city in California |
Harlem | African american populated NY City |
Herbert Hoover | 31st president |
Dorothea Long | photographer, pictures depicted poor living conditions |
Queens | NYC, 1939 World's Fair |
Wrapes of Wrath | published in 1939, book on Depression, Steinbeck |