Movies/Musicals
Disney movie based in 1920s New Orleans with frogs as the main characters.
Princess and the Frog
Began after the stock market crash in 1929
The Great Depression
Walt Disney’s most famous animation, created in 1928.
Mickey Mouse
Music played using brass instruments, played a lot in New Orleans
Jazz
Automobile that cost only $260 in 1924, making cars an affordable luxury.
Model T
Movie based off a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in 1922 Long Island, NY.
The Great Gatsby
Banned the manufacturing and sale of alcohol, people went to illegal bars called speakeasies.
Prohibition
Jazz Musician who started in 1922, played the trumpet.
Louis Armstrong
A style of dress and genre for movies
Gangster
Machines that dispense soda when you put money in them.
Vending Machines
Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length silent feature film
The Kid
A big milestone for women in 1920
Women gained the right to vote
Theoretical Physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1921
Albert Einstein
Accent detail seen on flapper dresses
Fringe
European influence on American Literature
The Lost Generation
Musical written in 1928, features a narrator listening to his favorite record and commenting while the scenes play out on stage.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Attack on a wealthy black community in Tulsa, OK. Known as “Black Wall Street” in 1921.
Tulsa Race Riot
French entertainer and civil rights activist
Josephine Baker
Style using geometric shapes usually with gold accents
Art Deco
Type of Dance that appeared in the Broadway Musical “Running Wild”
The Charleston
First full-length movie to have synchronized sound (so it wasn’t a silent film)
The Jazz Singer
Starting in 1924, this dare began with actor Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly and had records of 12, 17, and 21 days over the course of 5 years.
Flag Pole Sitting
Famous baseball player who played his first season with the New York Yankees in 1920
Babe Ruth
Candies made by Edward Haas in 1927, short for the German word for Peppermint.
PEZ
A phrase meaning “a complaint or to complain,” also used in today’s slang.
“Beef”