Section 3 Flashcards
What is a fad?
An activity or fashionist taken up with great passion for very short time.
What were four examples of fads?
Flagpole sitting, marathon dances, crossword puzzles, and the Charleston.
Who were the flappers?
Young woman who rebelled against traditional ways.
What did flappers do that shocked people?
They wore their hair bobbed, they wore short dresses, and they wore bright red lipstick.
How did flappers behave?
They smoked cigarettes in public, they drank bootleg alcohol, and they drove fast cars.
What did flappers symbolize?
A new sense of freedom.
What did jazz combine?
West African rhythms, African-American work songs and spirituals, European harmonies, and roots of Ragtime.
Who was one of the musicians who helped create jazz?
Louis Armstrong.
Where did jazz spread from?
The New Orleans to Harlem.
What did writers criticize Americans for?
For caring too much about money and fun.
Some writers were so unhappy with life in United States, they moved to Paris, France and lived as what?
Ex-patriots, or people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land.
What did Ernest Hemingway right?
A farewell to arms.
What did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
The great Gatsby.
What did Sinclair Lewis write? What did she win?
Babbit and Main Street. Nobel peace prize.
What did Edna St. Vincent Millay express?
The frantic pace of the 1920s.
