What made the 1920's Fun, Roaring, and exciting!!?The jazz age, highest standard of living. Third industrial revolutionElectrical appliances, cars, radiosHenry ford moving assembly line to make a car, only took a little over 2 hours.Ford able to pay his workers a good wage, improved benefits.Buying on creditMore Americans lived in cities instead of the country, for jobsCities built sky scrapers and new businessesThe automobile changed the 1920’sTeenagers had more freedom from their parentsFood and eating became different when cars were madeSame with grocery stores, why go to a little grocery store close by when you can go to a big one in the cityWomens lives changed19th amendment-women right to voteYoung women more freedom, going to high school and collegeWomen sports activitiesFlappersElectricity- a lot benefited, except for farmers til the late 1930’sDeodorant- lets turn every armpit into a charm pitAdvertisements influenced a lot of womenMake women feel pity because of the adsMovies brought fantasies to lifeFemale purity-moviesMen said they learned how to kiss or smoked a cigarette by watching moviesMovies-influence in culture, new role modelsHarlem-center of the new negro.Sports became very bigCharles Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop flightThought capitalism was bringing about a better world
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