Driving Idea:
What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?
1. Roaring 20's-jazz(music), sports, buying on credit, fashion, fads, movies. Louis Armstrong started off in New Orleans. Duke Ellington preformed at the cotton club. Babe Ruth played during this time. Red Grange was a famous football player during these times. Women started wearing skirts with sweaters. Men wore sweaters around their waists and wore a lot of hats. Richer men wore Suits with fedoras. a lot of the movies that came out were silent and black and white. Board games were very popular. The most played game was mojang. People sat on flag poles. Some guy broke a world record for sitting on a flag pole for 49 days.
2. Red Scare/Anti-immigration A lot of laws were made and legislations to stop the immigrants from getting into the United States.
3. Planes and automobiles
4. Prohibition/Gangs
5. Republican presidents and philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
6. Women in the 20's
7. African-Americans in the 20's
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