Inventions During The 1920's

Men's Fashion

The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire and even began to wear athletic clothing for the first time. The suits men wear today are still based, for the most part, on those worn in the late 1920's

Women's Fashion

Women's fashion in the early 1920 experienced dramatic changes following the end of world war,in a period often referred to as the "roaring 20's" the era of the flapper.The flapper stereotype is one of short bobbed or shingled hair, straight loose knee length dresses with dropped waistline, silk or rayon stocking with graters, heavy makeup, long beaded necklaces, and smoking.

Inventions

There can be no doubt that the twentieth century is one of the most remarkable in human history for its previously unparalleled rate of technological advances and scientific discoveries, a rate that continues to this day. The nuclear power was one of the 20th century invention, the automobile, personal computer, and the airplane.

Inventions During The 1920's

Entertainment

African-American culture

The 20th century brought a lot of new entertainments for people. James Naismith brought the basketball, Frank Henry introduce the bubble gum to the 20th century, other stuff like aqualung, the kite, fireworks.

The Harlem Renaissance was the African-American cultural revolution centered in Harlem, New York City, which began after World War I, climaxed in the mid to late 1920s, and diminished in the mid 1930s. The movement, while primarily literary, involved art, music, dance, and theater. During this pivotal period, the Harlem Renaissance fostered black pride and uplifting of the race through the use of intellect. Thinking African-Americans, using artistic talents, challenged racial stereotypes and helped promote racial integration

Jazz

Prohibition

Jazz music influenced all aspects of society. Jazz poetry, fashion, and industry were effected by the "basement" music that took the United States by storm. Jazz music also exacerbated the racial tensions in the post war period

The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. The result of a widespread temperance movement during the first decade of the 20th century, Prohibition was difficult to enforce, despite the passage of companion legislation known as the Volstead Act.

Sports

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Sports which grew and flourished in the nineteen twenties due to unprecedented publicity and promotion included baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, football and boxing. Newspapers, magazines, radio and movies all played a role in boosting the profile of sport and the sporting giants.

On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression 1929-39, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.

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Famous People

Women's Rights

The 20th century had a lot of famous people like Henry Ford, created the assembly line.Babe Ruth U.S professional baseball player that would always hit home runs, he played for the NY. Also a famous person was Charlie Chaplin, he was a enlish comedian and film maker.

John Scopes

Pop Culture

It took women more than 72 years of arduous struggle to win the vote called woman suffrage, from the Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights, held in 1848, to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. Victory was never assured until the final moment, when Tennessee became the last state to ratify the amendment by a single vote. In the intervening years, the drive for women’s voting rights encompassed the lives of several generations of women.

John Scopes is best known as the Tennessee educator found guilty of breaking the law for teaching evolution in his class room.Born in Kentucky in 1900, John Scopes was a teacher in Tennessee who became famous for going on trial for teaching evolution. Scopes was part of an American Civil Liberties Union attempt to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Scopes's trial became a national sensation, with celebrity lawyers like Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan involved in the case. Scopes was found guilty, but his story remains famous as the Scopes Monkey Trial, dramatized in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind starring Spencer Tracy.

Pop culture during the 1920s was characterized by the flapper, automobiles, nightclubs, movies, and jazz. Life moved fast as a new sense of prosperity and freedom emerged at the end of World War I. Products were manufactured in mass-produced packaging. Billboards popped up all over the cities.