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1920's Life (New products and technology (the radio was to be found in…

- - - - The age of Al Capone
      - The overall crime rate when up in America when prohibition began
    - - illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages.
- - - - lead to extreme corruption
        
        Sports
        
        Jazz music became an obsession among young people.
        
        By 1929 the new network NBC was making $150 million a year.
        
        Black people from the countryside brought Jazz and Blues with them.
        
        In August 1921 there was only one linseed radio station in the USA. By the end of 1922 there were 508 of them.
        
        Baseball became a big money sport with legendary teams like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
        
        People like Al Capone were huge baseball fans.
        
        Blues music was particularly popular among black population
        
        Boxing was also a very popular sport
        
        with heroes like world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey
- - - - They also burned crosses and staged rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized laborers
- - - - the government restricted immigrations
        
        many were iliterate
        
        Many immigrants were very poor
        
        different cultural and religious background
        
        trauma and fear of Communism (Red Scare)
      - the system ensured that the largest proportion of immigrants was from north-west Europe and that limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe.