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How did African Americans influence American society in the 1920s?

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How did African Americans influence American society in the 1920s?

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One way that African Americans influenced society was with different forms of entertainment.

-Jazz was a type of music characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a forceful rhythm. It usually involved brass and woodwind instruments, plus piano.

-Blues was a melancholic type of music typically in a twelve-bar sequence.

-The African American Theatre was vibrant and unique, enriched by its use of Egyptian rituals, African folklore, and European practices. It combined storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, sond, and dance.

-Louis Armstrong was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and influential figure in jazz music

-The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood.

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." -Louis Armstrong

"No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around." -Bessie Smith

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington

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How did popular culture, the arts, and literature change in the 1920s?

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How did popular culture, the arts, and literature change in the 1920s?

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Many famous and talented athletes were the cause of spectator sports becoming popular. Some athletes were viewed as heros in the eyes of Americans.

-Babe Ruth was a baseball outfielder and pitcher who played 22 seasons from 1914 to 1945.

-Jack Dempsey was a professional boxer.

-Red Grange was a college and professional football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived the New York Yankees.

-Bobby Jones was an amateur golfer who founded the Augusta National Golf Club and co-founded the Masters Tournament.

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." -Jack Dempsey

"Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying." -Bobby Jones

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." -Babe Ruth

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How did new industries and a consumer society contribute to the Roaring Twenties?

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How did new industries and a consumer society contribute to the Roaring Twenties?

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The Model T and other automobiles became popular in the 1920s. They contributed to the Roaring Twenties in multiple ways.

-The automobile made transportation easier and faster.

-The Model T was affordable for most families.

-Families could go on outings and they could be as long or as short as they wanted them to be.

-The automobile gave Americans a sense of freedom because they could move around easily.

"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for." -Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Henry Ford

"We wants to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." -Henry Ford

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Why did the modern culture of the 1920s cause some people to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?

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Why did the modern culture of the 1920s cause some people to think that traditional society and morality were under attack?

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On October 28, 1919, The Volstead Act was ratified to stop the selling and consumption of alcohol. It is one the reasons why some people thought that traditional society and morality were under attack.

-Alcohol has always been a part of American culture.

-The Prohibition Act was the cause of new, organized crime of gangsters, bootleggers, and Al Capone.

-Drinking alcohol was common in America. It was consumed at parties, homes, restaurants, and other places.

-People ignored the Prohibition Act. There were popular places called speakeasies that illegally sold alcohol.

"Prohibition is better than no liquor at all." -Will Rogers

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." -W. C. Fields

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer you cry into." -Don Marquis