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How did the society change during the roaring twenties? (Entretainment…
How did the society change during the roaring twenties?
Entretainment
Sports
Baseball became a multimillionaire sport
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Basketball ball players became national figures like Babe Ruth
Boxing was popular
Heroes like Jack Dempsey
Millions of people listened through radios
Jazz
Radio gave access to new music
African Americans brought this
1920s known as Jazz Age
New Dances: Charleston
Radio
Almost everyone had radios
Poor people shared radios
By 1930, there was one radio for every 2 or 3 househoulds
By 1922 there were 508 licensed radio stations
By 1929, NBC was making 150 million dollars a year
Women
Before war they lived limitely
No makeup
Restricting clothes
No smoking
No sports
Few lowly paid limited works
After war
Still some limitations
Women were paid less than men- CHEAP WORKERS
No access to political power
Employment
Especially on urban areas and middle-class women
10 million working women by 1929
Became targets of advertising
1925, Ford made cars in other colours from black
Gained skills during the war
could be employed at different things
realized they could also work
faught to mantain their right to work after the war ended
Choices
More role models for women
Films
Novels
Sexy and daring
Women were less likely to stay in unhappy marriages
In 1929 there were twice as many divorces as in 1914
Appearence of "IT" girls
Women got the vote in ALL STATES in 1920
Flappers
New "type" of women
Smoked
Short dresses
Morals
Sex
Sex outside marrige was common
More liberal movies
cinema stars were sold in sex appeal
Theda Bara
Men like Rudolph Valentino were sold like sexy
appeared in news papers
was talked and shared like a common thing
Birth control was available
Cinema
Famous actors 1920's
Charles Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
Mary Pickford
Musicians
Al Jolson
First talkie (movie with music)
Disney
Mickey mouse 1928
Snow white 1937
First animated colored film
1930
100,000,000 Americans went per week
ticket industry started growing
More than 100 films a year
New Fashion
smoking
New ways to behave
society standards
"it girl" Clara Bow
Women started driving cars
less clothing, not covered
FEMINISM was born
Growing cities and cars
Mass manufactering
Items were more affordable
Vaccume
radio
cars
household appliances
More jobs were created
Living in a city became more profitable
more jobs
less threat of natural disasters
more demand for labour
improvment of iving conditions (better, more modern things)
Mass imigration made cities grow
created more/cheap workforce
cities gained profit
Agriculture became less profitable
Urban areas became more populated
skyscrapers were built
overpopulatin made them expand
more money was accesible for construccion
