Tuesday January 12th, 2010

What made the 1920s roaring?FordismCut the time to make a car from 12 to just under 2 hoursStarted to pay his employees $5 a dayThis was good for businessesBuy now pay later was becoming a way of lifeGM theory was to keep the costmer dissatified so that they came back to buy another carPeople moved to the cities and used buses and trains to go from home to workSome people thought that the car was antireligous because instead of going to church people would go to somewhere elseAllowed youth to have more freedomWomen's LifeWomen's right to voteMore women then ever before had paying jobsAlso finished highschool and went to collegeThey were living away from their familiesThey wore looser clotheing, smoke, and drankThey were also know as the FlappersHome LifeElectricity came about which open the door for more applanicesAlso made women's work a little easierAdvertising was geared more towards women because they knew that that who was buying the itemsVaccum, Refrigerator, and Washing machineAdvertisingRadioIt was the way of telling peole they didn't know that they needed"Lets turn every armpit into a charm pit"The Beauty IndustryBefore it took women hours to get ready and put on 10 pounds of clothingThe goal was to make women feel guilty about them selfsWomen got their own styleThe Silver ScreenBrought dreams to lifeLearned a lot from movies, young men said they learned how to kissMovies reformed beuatyThe Jazz AgeJazz was borned in New OrleansMarcus Garvey encourage blacks not to be self conscienceSchuffle along became the first blakc show to make it on BroadwaySang about problems in lifenot everyone was pleased about jazz some thought it had an evil beat to itProhibitionBanning of AchoholThis made more people to start to break the lawsNativists and FundimentalsPeople used their differences to attack eachotherKKKThe nation was sliting in toDayton TennessessScopes Trialhad passed a law outlawing the teaching of evolution in schoolsSportsBoxingFor the countries 125th birthday party the biggest sporting event in the countries history was heldTennisGolfFootball college and professionalBaseball Babe RuthAirplanesCharles Limburg was the first to fly across the Alantic OceanThe Great DepressionWhen the stock market crashed the party was overI wished I could have lived in the 1920s.
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  • Great! The 20's would have been a fun time to live. Well, until October, 1929 that is.
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