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| A time of economic well being |
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the buying and selling of goods-popular in the 20's because there were lots of new goods to buy
helped the economy grow |
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| prohibits making and selling of alcohol |
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| gave women the right to vote |
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| how roaring twenties got its name |
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| sounds of factory machines humming-clattering of cash registers |
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helped to sell goods-
appealed to peoples anxieties and frustrations
boom time for companies |
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| focused on the psychology of buying-why, how people buy |
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| a way to buy things and pay for them in small doses-people could buy things they usually could not afford |
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| Why this burst of personal spending and prosperity? |
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| after WW I, when people had to save and be careful-people had the ability to buy new goods and not be thrifty anymore |
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| new mass produced products |
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| vacuums, refridgerators, irons, cars, fans |
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flourishing of culture, especially for African Americans
established a growing sense of black pride |
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| one who was asssertive and proud of his/her heritage |
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| New Orleans-moved up north as African Aneruicans moved to cities for jobs |
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a jazz club in Harlem
lots of white people went there |
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| new forms of transportation and jobs that came from the transportation revolution |
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| planes and trains, road building, bridge building, pilots, porters, train engineers |
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by 1918-7 million cars on road
isolated farmers could travel to cities
new highways
people who worked in cities could live away from cities
new restaurants
new campgrounds
hotels
billboards
parking lots
traffic lights |
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assembly line production
one car came off the assembly line every 10 seconds
took-93 minutes to make a car
cost $260 |
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| first engine powered flight |
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| passed in Congress to build 10,000 miles of highways each year |
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led to increased interest in sports
laws were passed that allowed people to work fewer hours. People were very interested in sports at this time
increased productivity led to more |
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flew the Spirit of Saint Louis 3600 miles from NY to Paris France
His commitment and fame helped the aviation industry to grow |
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| black baseball player for the negro league-prejudice kept him out of the white only major leagues-called satchel because as a kid he carried peoples small suitcases, called satchels, from local train stations-Elected to the American league all star players |
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jazz composer and bandleader
played in Harlem cotton Club
made jazz an important music form |
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daring young women, cut their hair,
wore short skirts, smoked, drank, went to speakeasys, danced wildly |
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| prodced his first car-assembly line, mass produce cars to make it possible for middle class people to afford them |
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| women's suffrage movement |
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| the movement led by women to get the right to vote-resulted in the 19th amendment- |
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| Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, under President Harding, granted leases to develop oil reserves in Wyoming. He got gifts of money without permission from Congress-He was sentenced to prison and given a fine. |
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| nickname-Satchmo-played cornet and bugle-World's greatest trumpeter |
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| got their name from hiding bottles of whiskey in their boots- |
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| John Scopes was a biology teacher who taught the students the theory of evolution. He was tried for going against the bible. He was found guilty but the Supreme Court reversed the decision. |
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