US History › Section L · The Great War and the 1920s › Topic L.7
A new generation
Young Americans in the 1920s challenged their parents' rules in dress, dating and music. Women tested the meaning of their new right to vote, Black artists in Harlem proclaimed a "New Negro", Prohibition bred a lawless underground, and disillusioned writers questioned the whole American dream.
In this topic
- A youth culture
- Flappers
- The "new woman" in public life
- The Jazz Age
- Harlem and the New Negro
- Worked example: "If We Must Die"
- Writers and artists of Harlem
- Marcus Garvey and Black nationalism
- Worked example: how Prohibition fed organised crime
- The Lost Generation
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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