Jazz Age:

The Era of
Gatsby

1920s
What do you think of
when you hear The
Roaring Twenties?

Rise of film
The Jazz Age
and movie
stars
Huge parties
Rise of
Big bands
Broadway
Lots of
Rise of black
alcohol
artists

Women can
vote
Rise of
flappers

Ella Fitzgerald,
Louis
Armstrong,
Duke Ellington,
Josephine

Youth Rebellion
Break down the
traditional culture
of previous
generations
Flappers, women
smoking cigarettes,
free talk about sex,
dances like the
Charleston

Social Inequality
The rich stayed very rich
The poor were very poor
The wealthy .1% (114,000
Americans) controlled 50% of the
wealth, and 48 million had to
share the other 50%