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Major Historical Events of the 1920s
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Major Historical Events
The 1920s
November 1918
Made By: Justin Fan, Anish Palvai, Niserg Desai, Kennedy Shell
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Sources
October 1929
- https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/seneca-falls-and-building-a-movement-1776-1890/
- https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Volstead_Act.html
- https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles-1
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsggdxs/revision/3
- https://www.thebalance.com/stock-market-crash-of-1929-causes-effects-and-facts-3305891
- https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash#:~:text=The%20stock%20market%20crash%20of%201929%20was%20not%20the%20sole,30%20percent%20of%20the%20workforce.
- https://www.history.com/news/harlem-renaissance-photos
- http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bernt22l/classweb/Liana/Causes.html
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088644/homicide-suicide-rate-during-prohibition/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsggdxs/revision/3
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/1920s-consumption
- https://study.com/academy/lesson/mass-production-in-the-1920s.html#:~:text=Mass%20production%20made%20manufacturing%20safer,effecting%20societies%20around%20the%20world.&text=While%20mass%20production%20and%20assembly,individual%20prosperity%20throughout%20the%201920s.
The End of World War I
End of World War I
- Germany surrenders on November 11, 1918
- Treaty of Versailles signed on June 28, 1919
- formally ended the war
- strict restrictions
- President Wilson was against the Treaty of Versailles
- "Fourteen Points"
- Treaty of Versailles may have contributed to the cause of WWII
Prohibition
Beliefs:
- Less alcohol would lead to less crime and increase the amount of piety
- Prevent abuse from husbands at the home
- Immigrants came to the country just to get drunk/ Anti- German sentiment
Prohibition
Volstead Act
- Also known as the National Prohibition Act
- Named after Minnesota representative Andrew Volstead, who supported it
- Vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson
- some states made laws to enforce it
- some states repealed it
Volstead Act
Women's Suffrage
- The movement started in 1848 on a national scale with the Seneca Falls Convention
- Stanton, Mott, and Anthony raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women
- 19th Amendment of the Constitution giving women the same voting rights as men
- August 18, 1920
- Black women would not get the right to vote until another 40 years later
Crime
- Prohibition left a vacuum in the market for sell of alcohol
- Crime groups took the role of bootlegging alcohol
- Tensions between crime groups led to violence
Organized
Crime
Mass Media
In November 1920, the first financially authorized radio broadcast started broadcasting live consequences of the official political decision. The transmission of breaking news was new and phenomenal, and as word spread of this new medium, the "talking box" detonated in prominence. After two years, Americans purchased 100,000 radios. In 1923, they purchased 500,000. By 1926, there were more than 700 business radio broadcasts, and for all intents and purposes the whole nation was covered by radio signs. As Burns states, "No other occasion of 1920 would have a greater amount of an impact on the future than the introduction of radio, with was thus the introduction of American broad communications."
Harlem Renaissance
- birth of big-band jazz
- new painting technique
- music and art used to depict social issues
- Augusta Savage, Jacob Lawrence, Marcus Garvey
Harlem Renaissance
Assembly Line
- Model T’s price from $850 in 1908 to $300 in 1924
- Affordable transportation for the common man
- By 1929, there were over 23 million automobiles on American roads.
Manufacturing
Stock Market Crash
- Trickle down economics
- overproduction leads to unemployment
- Early October 1929 - Margins called, excessive selling
- no reserve requirement
- October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday, investors lost a total of $16 billion this day
Why called the "roaring" twenties
The 1920's regarded as a boisterous era of prosperity, fast cars, jazz, speakeasies, and wild youth. The 1920's in the United States, called “roaring” because of the freewheeling popular culture of the decade. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.