Copy of The Roaring Twenties: Positives & Negatives

The Movie Industry

The Automobile Industry.

Suffrage

It is estimated that three-quarters of the nation's population went to a movie theater each week. They saw the same movies no matter their social or economic classes. This brought people closer together in a way that nothing else had before.

In 1920 women were guaranteed the right to vote by the 19th amendment. This was just the beginning of the fight for equality for women that still continues today.

Heavily considered the most important consumer product of the decade, the automobile industry made an economy all of its own. By the end of the decade there was one car on the road for every five americans. The automobile industry sparked other businesses such as motels and service stations.

Charles Lindbergh

National Origins Act

"Cultural Civil War"

The Tea Pot Scandal

The Roaring Twenties: Positives & Negatives

The "Red Scare" caused a big stir up in America. The fear that communism would spread caused the U.S. to put limitations on immigrants. The National Origins Act was passed to limit the immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe.

The Great Migration, The Harlem Renaissance, and the Red-Scare are just a few of the events that caused social and racial tensions in the '20s. These events caused a strong feeling of nationalism and anti-immigration thoughts to come over white-americans.

Numerous scandals took place under President Harding. The most notorious was the Tea Pot Dome Scandal. This was where secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. He granted exclusive rights to certain oil companies in return for the leases, Fall received large cash gifts and no-interest “loans.”

Charles Lindbergh was the first man to complete a trans-atlantic flight. He was awarded a medal of honor and set the stage for many pilots to come.

Credit

Credit came about in the 1920's to make it easier to pay for things. It started out with pure intentions, but throughout the decades people became too dependent on it. Especially people today.

The Radio

Organized Crime

A Loss of Trust

Due to the stock market crash, Americans had lost faith in the banks. Because the banks had invested all of their money in stocks and lost it. I'm not really sure if Americans have ever really gained their full trust of banks back.

Prohibition

Coca-Cola

Scopes Monkey Trial

Dancing

Jazz

The KDKA was one of the first radios. It was the first to cover the a presidential election in 1920. Everyone could now receive the same information. The radio completely revolutionized the way Americans communicated.

The twenties have famously been referred to as "The Jazz Age." This is because it was the birth of the genre. Although the older population considered jazz "vulgar"; the younger generation embraced the movement. They felt their freedom on the dance floor.

With prohibition in effect, Americans had to find a new drink to enjoy. Soft-drink sales sky-rocketed including Coca-cola. Americans loved it so much that it became the "national temperance drink."

Prohibition can be seen as both positive and a negative. Although it made alcohol illegal to stop trouble, ironically it created it. It increased crime levels tremendously. Bootleggers and organized crime especially.

The "Jazz Age" provoked many famous dances, such as: the Charleston, the cake walk, the flea hop, and the black bottom.

Organized crime grew a lot in the 1920's, pretty much because of prohibition. The mob got a strong hold in the big cities like New York and Chicago. Not to mention bootleggers in the rural areas of America like Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennesse.

In 1925 a biology teacher named, John T. Scopes was prosecuted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The case received national attention and brought many tourists to the town of Dayton, Tennessee. Former secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor. Clarence Darrow, a notorious criminal lawyer, defended Scopes. Scopes was ultimately found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of $100.

Musicians such as, Louis

Armstrong came about in

the 1920's.

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KKK Marches Capitol

Rise of the Klan

Electricity

Notorious Criminals

The KKK had existed in America many years prior to the twenties. But they expanded greatly in the twenties due to the Great Migration. The KKK had been mainly located in the South up to this point. The Great Migration caused people in places such as Indiana and Illinois to join the Klan.

The "New Woman"

50,000 parade the streets

of Washington D.C. Particularly

the capitol building.

Stock Market Crash

Although electricity didn't come about until the late 1920's and early 1930's, it changed America forever. Household appliances brought forth a new image to modern everyday life. Inventions such as the radio and telephone increased and improved communication terrifically.

October 29th 1929 is a day that will always be remembered in American history. The day that the stock market crashed, Americans lost everything; not just their money and belongings, but their trust of banks and the stock market. This tragic event shot America straight into the great depression.

A different type of woman came about in the 1920s. They were known as flappers: women who drank, smoked and participated in "unladylike behavior." In reality most women didn't really act like this, but they did dress flamboyantly.

crime figures such as Al Capone,

Bugs Moran, George Nelson, and

Bonnie & Clyde were notorious

in the '20s