history - roaring 20s
prosperity
ford motor car
jazz
stock market boom
production, consumerism
Contrasts
tarrifs
president wilson put tariffs on foreign goods so american goods were cheaper and helped american industries
Discrimination
Entertainment
LACK PANTS
Lassaiz-faire
Assembly line
Credit
Knowledge
Position of America in war
Advertisement
New consumer goods
Tariffs
Share confidence
No interference attitude - kept taxes low, gov didn't interfere w business growth
Method of mass production that kept price low
Allowed consumers to use products before money
New inventions
Stayed out of war til 1917, unaffected by cost
Good adverts, more thing bought
New items became must have
US put tariffs on foreign goods so American goods were cheaper so people supported America
High confidence, more shares,
Cinema
Music
Jazz became popular
110 m going to cinema each week in 1929
Radio stations
Dance
Charleston
Publicise sports
Contrast between extreme rich and extreme poor
Poor immigrants as they were discriminated against and had less opportunities
Farmers struggled because of overproduction because during ww1 they made lots of food
Had lots of competition as they basically could only sell in America due to international tarriffs elsewhere, many farmers fell into debt and lost their land
A third of national wealth shared between 5% of population
71% of families in 1929 had national income of below $2,500 (minimum needed for decent standard of living)
Culture
Women gained increased freedom
Flappers - young middle classed girls - cut their hair short, smoked in public, wore short skirts and lipstick
Cast aside social restraint
Prohibition
Organised crime
Volstead act, January 1920 - 1933
Started in late 19th Century, many poverty-stricken homes suffered through alcoholic activities of fathers
Many Alcohol brands were German, so people went dry to support America
Before the act came into force on the 17th of Jan, rich people bought lots of alcohol
selling alcohol became big business
Gangsters operating from cities controlled the trade. They supplied the booze, set up speakeasies and ran 'protection rackets'
Al Caopne
Red scare
KKK
Black wall street massacre
WW1 made lots of people nationalistic and fear immigrants and other political views
Many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology
Sacco and Vanzetti
Were never inplicated in violence, but were convicted of 1st degree murder and executed as they were Italian and anarchist
1915 Birth of a Nation film with KKK ignited KKK
Only White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) could join.
Lynched, murdered, beat and raped African Americans
Two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 – June 1, 1921
Native Americans
NA children were forced to go to boarding school where they were brainwashed of their tribal identity
Traditional clothes were banned
Did not have American citizenship or equal rights
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