Name: ___________________________________________ Due Date: ________________________________

Mass Media and the Jazz Age

Use Chapter 11, Section 4 (pages 358-363) to fill in the guided reading notes below.
1. What was the name of the little California town that was made big by filmmakers? ____________________
2. What were the three reasons filmmakers were attracted to the little town?
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________
3. Prior to the 1920s the United States had been a collection of regional __________________________.
a. Why?

b. How did the 1920s change this trend?

4. Define mass media.

5. Between 1910 and 1930 what rose from 5,000 to 22,500? ______________________________________
6. What became the fourth largest business in the country? _______________________________________
7. What was the significance of the Jazz Singer?

8. Why were newspapers important to Americans?

9. How did newspapers create a common culture?

10. What experiment led to regularly broadcasted programs?

11. How did radio connect people, creating a common American culture?

12. What two things combined to create music called jazz?

a. ________________________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________________________
13. What was the Jazz Age?

14. Where was the most popular place to listen to jazz?

15. Construct a five sentence biography on Duke Ellington.

16. Describe what is meant by the lost generation.

17. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

18. List the prominent writers of the 1920s.

a. What was unique about F. Scott Fitzgerald?

b. Pick two of the people from the section and describe why they are significant.