Warm Up: What are some of the causes/effects of WW1 you saw reflected in the bar fight?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
M - Militarism A - Alliances I - Imperialism N - Nationalism
Key Concept 2: Innovation in communication and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.
Timeline Reconstruction > Gilded Age > Progressive Era > WWI > Roaring 20s
Culture War Small Town (Conservative Republican)
- Against
- Drinking
- Evolution
- Immigrants
- Women’s Rights
- Old
- Victorian Morals
Big City (Liberal Democrats)
- Modernism
- Young
- Flappers
Causes of the Harlem Renaissance Black people move from the overtly racist South to the subtle North.
- The Great Migration from South to North due to racism and violence by KKK.
- Growing frustration after WWI about 2nd class citizenship in America.
Notable Accomplishments of the Harlem Renaissance
- Pride in African American community and culture.
- Advancement of writers like Langston Hughes.
- Birth of Jazz by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and blues (Bessie Smith).
- Start of jazz club-Cotton Club.
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City.