Name ________________________________________ Date ___________________ Period ______
American Popular Culture
(Ch. 13, Sect 3 and 4; page 446 – 459)
Directions: As you read, answer the following questions.
1. Describe how the various forms of mass media help to shape American culture in the 1920s?
a. Newspaper -
b. Magazines -
c. Radio -
2. What were some of the new fads during the 1920s?
3. What did heroes restore for the American people and identify 3 sports heroes and their sport?
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a.
b.
c.
4. Who was Charles A. Lindbergh and what did he represent for the America people?
5. According to the “Historic Flights, 1919-1932 Map”:
a. What U.S. cities were among the stops on the first transcontinental airmail route?
b. Who was Amelia Earhart and what did she accomplishment?
6. What movie was the first “talkie” and what was the first animated film?
American Art Forms during the 20s
 Writers: Explain how each writer criticized/described the society of the 1920s
(p450-451 & 454-455):
a. Sinclair Lewis –
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald –
c. John Dos Passos -
d. Ernest Hemingway -
e. Claude McKay –
f. Langston Hughes –
g. Zora Neale Hurston -
 Performers: Describe what each of the following artists were known for.
(p456-457)
a. George Gershwin (p450) –
b. Paul Robeson –
c. Louis Armstrong –
d. Duke Ellington –
e. Bessie Smith -