Unit 8 pg 1 vocab

This film intensified racism against African Americans and led to a second wave of the KKK

How did people in the 1920s get most of their news?

Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, and Zora Neale Hurston are associated with...

A result of the premiere of A Birth of a Nation film

Group of writers disillusioned w/ greed & corruption in society. Hemingway, Lewis, Fitzgerald

Arose in 1920s- radio, magazines, movies created mass culture. People exposed to similar ideas

Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are associated with...

To produce on a large scale lowering production costs and making goods more affordable

It is good to be a consumer society when people spend all of their paycheck and save no money

New appliances caused people to have less free time to do things

African American cultural movement

Due to the new technologies & appliances, people bought the newest/latest products even if they couldn't afford it

Radicals, Catholics, immigrants were among some of the new targets with the second wave of the Klan

Large movement of African-Americans from the Southern U.S. to the Northern U.S. in the early-20th century

This united the country as everyone listened to the same shows and news

The US became this type of society in the 1920s as people spent money/consumed over saving $$

Plans that arose in 1920s- allowed people to buy more expensive items. Pay little at a time

Helped to create a national culture as these became popular in 1920s for entertainment

New inventions like washers and refrigerators made possible by electricity- more leisure time