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The Roaring 20s By Juna Murao http://images.google.com/imgres?q=roaring+twenties&safe=active&biw=1366&bih=587&tbm=isch&tbnid=ng6OdRjJtym-mM:&imgrefurl=http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/progressive-era-new-era-1900-1929/roaring-twenties&docid=X2CmTtqXajJIiM&imgurl=http://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/top-2col-full/content-images/twenties.jpg&w=680&h=225&ei=bA-BUuKhCoe7kQe594DwDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=298&page=2&tbnh=123&tbnw=213&start=23&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:41,s:0,i:211&tx=205&ty=78
The roaring 20s is a term used in the 1920s in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., this name characterized as the decades distinctive cultural edge http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2078/pub_detail.asp
Harlem Renaissance • African-American literary and artistic culture developed rapidly during the 1920s under the banner of "The Harlem Renaissance". In 1921, the Black Swan Corporation opened. At its height, it issued ten recordings per month. All-African-American musicals also started in 1921. In 1923, the Harlem Renaissance Basketball Club was founded by Bob Douglas. During the later 1920s, and especially in the 1930s, the basketball team became known as the best in the world.
Jazz • The 1920s brought new styles of music into the mainstream of American culture. Jazz became the most popular form of music for young people and the flapper culture, they danced the the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, and the flea hop.
Cinema • At the beginning of the decade, films were silent and colorless. In 1922, the first all-color feature, The Toll of the Sea, was released. In 1926, The Warner Brothers released Don Juan, the first feature with sound effects and music. In 1927, Warner released The Jazz Singer, the first sound feature to include limited talking sequences. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-toll-of-the-sea/
Speakeasy • A speakeasy, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. These establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era(1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation (bootlegging) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States. http://images.google.com/imgres?q=Speakeasy&safe=active&biw=1366&bih=587&tbm=isch&tbnid=bgUJiSa_1gmWOM:&imgrefurl=http://www.duganfoundation.org/index.php/pages/71/&docid=-kmUVat9jcFJoM&imgurl=http://www.duganfoundation.org/images/uploads/The-Speakeasy-Revisited.jpg&w=2663&h=1744&ei=ExCBUrnMG4qgkQfRyoDgDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=153&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=220&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:79&tx=191&ty=91
Literature • was a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period. • Some Examples are: • The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, set up in 1922 in the vicinity of New York City, is often described as the symbolic • The Sun Also Risesby Ernest Hemingway is about a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s
The changing role of women • With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that gave women the right to vote, women finally attained the political equality that they had so long been fighting for. A generational gap began to form between the "new" women of the 1920s and the previous generation. http://www.1920-30.com/
bibliography • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html • http://www.1920-30.com/
