- What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the US
- Positive
- Amelia Earhart
- Charles limperg
- after the war they made cheap cars
- buying on credit
- President Harding Coolidge and Hoover
- focus on Normality
- Coolidge was the only president to be born on July 4
- RDC stands for Reconstrustion finance Corporation
- Music
- jazz
- blues were a quieter
- ragtime was up beat
- Broadway
- it was a place for plays and musicals
- jazz
- Dances- mostly made by black people
- The Charleston was one of the most Dances every use and it was set to a dance
- The Black Bottom was used by mostly black people
- The Foxtrot was brought over by African Americans and was change for jazz
- The Tango was made in the ghetto but then brought to the ball room floor
- The waltz is an old dance that they modernize
- the cake walk was an african dance but they brought it over and made it there own
- Radio shows- after super they would go to the radio and listen to the radio and it brought families together
- games
- Football- it became big in the 20s and they didn't throw the ball as much as we do today
- golf got bigger in the 20s
- Tennis and Hellen wills was the first woman to wear shorts and t-shirts
- Baseball- in the 20s baseball became big and in the 1924 there was the first negro world series
- Boxing was still big
- Basketball was a secondary sport and in 1925 the ABL or American basketball league
- games
- Mahjong cards and crossword poker was a big card game
- slang
- Bee's knees means something is cool big cheese is the head honcho
- clothing
- me wore alot of suits and hats and sweater vests
- women had short haie and men parted there had
- women wore loose dresses and they called them flappers and this was because they left the buckles on there shoes
- boys had somthing like sailer suit and girls had little dresses
- Food
- Hotdogs were becoming a bigger thing in the 20s
- Pasta was also
- Butter finger came out
- Gum because big
- Restaurants
- Texas pig stand
- A&W it was a big hit was during the prohibition
- founded in the late 20
- advertising
- Commercial
- Radio
- Poster
- Parties
- women would were alot of frilly stuff and jewlery
- And the guys wore what they would normally wear
- Negative
- the palmer raid
- Ku Klux Klan
- Buying on credit
- gangs
- Al Capone made 16,000,000 on bootlegging and got caught for tax evasion
- mafia
- Hoover didn't help with the great depression
- Prohibition 1920-1933
- they did this because they thought that it was corrupting the youth
- they made speakeasies bars that were made by criminals
- they had great decor
- Buying on credit
- Nobody paid when supposed to
- Lots of people were in debt
- caused the great depression
- Positive
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