Cultural Fads _________: an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time - ___________________ - Dance - Marathons - Crossword Puzzles - Mah-Jongg _____________: dance originating in S. Carolina—moving to a quick beat, dancers pivoted their feet while kicking out first one leg, then the other, backward & forward _____________________: young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking & acting - Wore hair bobbed, dresses short, bright red lipstick - To older Americans, flappers behaved & looked _______________________ - Smoked cigarettes in public - __________________________________________ - Drove fast cars - Very few were flappers – but soon older women would start trimming their hair & wearing shorter skirts & makeup _____________: music style that developed from blues, ragtime & other earlier styles ______________________: (1901-1971) one of the young African American musicians who helped create jazz - Learned to play the trumpet in a New Orleans ___________________ - Experimentation with a simple melody paired with notes & rhythm - Many older Americans worried that jazz & new dances were a _______________ on the New Writers - Many had horrifying experiences in WW1 & criticized U.S. for caring to much about money & fun - Some moved to Paris because they were unhappy in the states - __________________: people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land Hemingway – was a teenager when WW1 broke out - _________________________________________________ - A Farewell to Arms (novel – young man’s growing disgust with war - ___________________________ – examined the life of expatriates in Europe F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - examined the lives of wealthy young people who Sinclair Lewis - _________________– wrote novels that presented small-town Americans as dull & narrow-minded - First American to win the ____________________for literature in 1930 Langston Hughes - Poet - Encouraged ________________________ to be proud of their heritage - Wrote parallels between African Americans living on the Mississippi with Africans living along the Nile