Unit 4: Chapter 13

The flapper symbolized this revolution. The term described a new type of young woman: rebellious, energetic, fun-loving, and bold.

In addition to social changes, many changes in demographics occurred in the 1920s. Demographics are the statistics that describe a population, such as data on race or income.

Los Angeles, for example, became a magnet for Mexicans and developed a distinct barrio, or Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

The mass media are print, film, and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people.

The great symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski declared that jazz was "an expression of the time, of the breathless, energetic, superactive times in which we are living." The 1920s came to be called the Jazz Age.

Not just a national center for jazz, Harlem also became the home of an African American literary awakening of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance.

In the old days, bootleggers merely had been drinkers who hid flasks of liquor in the leg of their boots. Now the term was used to describe suppliers of illegal alcohol.

Speakeasies were bars that operated illegally.

They stated a set of beliefs that since came to be called fundamentalism. In addition to supporting traditional Christian ideas about Jesus, fundamentalists argued that God inspired the Bible, so it cannot contain contradictions or errors.