LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Langston Hughes was a novelist who wrote about the strength of poor migrant workers.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
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Jacob Lawrence was an artist who painted urban and Southwest scenes.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jazz grew out of the era’s ragtime music, and its influence was not restricted to the musical arena. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald labeled the period from the end of the Great War to the Great Depression as the “Jazz Age” as much for the cultural change it brought about as the music that defined it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the great 20th-century American writers and is famous for his depictions of the rich, disenchanted youth of what he called the Jazz Age during the 1920s. He completed four novels and more than 150 short stories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The F. Scott of F. Scott Fitzgerald stands for Francis Scott; he was named for his distant cousin, the writer of the poem that became the lyrics to American national anthem.