- An increase sparked by prosperous times and higher education standards for industry jobs.

- Many public schools met another challenge during the 1920's. Teachers had really hard times teaching the new immigrants that spoke no English.

- Due to those changes the taxes to finance school doubled in 1920's. Then, it doubled again in 1926 making the total cost of American education amounted to $2.7 billion a year.

- As a result, people liked and read more litautarely because they were able to read and that created mass media that shaped a mass culture.

- The growing media shaped a mass culture.

- Radio was the most powerful communications media to emerge in the 1920s.

- All those sources created something new in the Untied States that made, people could hear the news at the moment as something happened and hear or read the news from all around the world.

- Almost all the local papers had shut down because of the new resources and networks.

- Some families will all gather around and sit together listening to the radio about what was happening during that time 1920s.

- As a result of the rising education, it increased the media effect like radio because people can read and write.

2.What could be a probable reason as to why the number increased?

-The term was coined by Gertrude Stein, the mentor of Ernest Hemingway.

-The first Mainstream concept of "The Lost Generation" was in the novel The Sun Also Rises written by the great Ernest Hemingway

-The alternate name was "The World War 1 Generation" because the great war had just ended.

-the men that served in WW1 had seen the most Grotesque things and came back different with cause the spark in literature the True and anti-war movement.

-The Jazz Singer- released in 1927, the first major movie with sound. 

-Steamboat Willie- released in 1928, the first animated film with sound.

-By 1930, the new "talkies" had doubled movie attendance, millions of American going to the movies every week

-Gershwin, a Jewish composer, merged popular concert music with American jazz, creating a new sound that was identifiably American.

-painters appealed to Americans by recording an America of realities and dreams.

-O'Keeffe, a painter, produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.

• Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
  
• Lindbergh establishes a record of 33 hours 29 minutes in his 3,614–mile in his flight.
  
• He decided to go after a 25.000 prize offered for the first solo flight.
  
• Lindbergh accomplishment paved the way for others .
  
• In the next decade Amelia Earhart was to undertake many brave aerial exploits inspired by Lindbergh's example.
  
• Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, in a record time of about 15 hours from Newfoundland to Ireland.
  

• America spent $4.5 billion on entertament.
  
• Americans engaged in new leisure pastimes such as working crosswords pizzles and playing Mahjong and also the chines games.
• People Also gathered to but accessories jewelry and furniture.
• People also mobbed athletic stadiums to see sports stars who were known as heros by the mass media.
• All these people affected americans belief in power of the individual and inspired them to do better in life.

Edna ST. Vincent Millay- Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activesm.

Sinclair Lewis- He was the first america Nobel prize winner in literature, Which ridicules americans for their conformity and Materialism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald- He coined the term "Jazzage". He wrote social commentary books like "Side of Paradise" and "the Great Gatsby".