The Roaring 20s - modified

nickname for the 1920s becasue of the booming economy and fast pace of life during that era

• Great Migration

• Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

• Great Migration

• Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

the movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities looking for jobs between 1914 and 1920

• Great Migration

• Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Louis Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Duke Ellington

American musician and composer who was the first person to recognize the importance of blues as a legitimate musical form

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Louis Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Duke Ellington

popular silent film star, he was a "silent comedian," who made audiences laugh with his silent jokes

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Louis Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Duke Ellington

leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Louis Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Duke Ellington

an American aviator who flew his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, across the Atlantic in the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Louis Armstrong

• Charles Lindbergh

• Duke Ellington

American baseball legend and long-time batting legend

• Charlie Chaplin

• W.C. Handy

• Duke Ellington

• Charles Lindbergh

• Herman "Babe" Ruth

the radio program that began broadcasting in 1925 from WSM in Nashville that essentially made that city the center of the country music industry.

• NAACP

• Immigration Quota Act

• Grand Ole Opry