Life in 1920 # 39; s - Full Documentary (HD 720p)
The 1920s were a time of dramatic social change and politics for the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms more than doubled the total wealth of the nation between 1920 and 1929, and the economic growth swept many Americans in a consumer unfamiliar but rich people of the society from one ocean to the other bought the same products through national advertising and distribution chain stores, listened to the same music, have made the same dances and even used the same slang Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new urban mass, sometimes racy Culture; in fact, many even most people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than the celebration However, a handful of young people in big cities, the 1920 roared indeed.
The symbol most familiar of the Roaring Twenties flapper is probably a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what we might call unladylike things, in addition to being more sexually free as previous generations in fact, most young women in the 1920s, did any of those things that many adopted a wardrobe flapper fashion, but even women who are not flappers won some unprecedented freedoms They could finally vote the 19th amendment to the Constitution has guaranteed this right in 1920, millions of women have worked in white-collar jobs as reporters, for example, and could afford to participate in the booming consumer economy increased availability of devices birth control such as the diaphragm allowed women to have fewer children and new machines and technologies such as the washing machine and the vacuum removed a portion of the painfulness of household work.
Because the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were not illegal to drink alcohol, to make and sell, many people stored liquor before the ban took effect Rumor has it that the Yale Club in New York had a 14-year supply of alcoholic beverage in his basement.
During the 1920s, many Americans had money to spend, and they spent on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and household appliances such as electric refrigerators In particular, they bought radio the first commercial radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh USA, hit the airwaves in 1920; three years later, there were more than 500 stations in the nation in the late 1920s, there were radios in over 12 million households People also went to the movies Historians estimate that, by the end decades, three-quarters of the US population visited a movie theater every week.
But the most important consumer product of the 1920s was the car cheap cost Ford Model T in 1924 and only 260 generous affordable luxury car credit at the beginning of the decade; in the end, they were virtually necessities In 1929, there was a car on the road for every five Americans meanwhile, an automobile economy was born enterprises as service stations and motels sprang up to meet driver needs.
The cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they want and do what they wanted some pundits called the bedrooms on wheels What many young people wanted to do was dance the Charleston, the cake walk, black background, jumping flea jazz bands played in dance halls like the Savoy in New York and Aragon in Chicago; radio and gramophone records of which 100 million were sold in 1927 alone carried their tunes listeners across the country Some seniors objected to the vulgarity of jazz music and depravity and moral disasters which he so- called inspired, but many in the younger generations have enjoyed the freedom they felt on the dance floor.
During the 1920s, some liberties have been expanded while others were reduced The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, banned the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor, and 12 hours 16 January 1920, federal Volstead Act closed all the taverns, bar and lounge in the United States from there, it was illegal to sell drinks to intoxication with over 0 5 alcohol This led the basement of trade in alcohol now, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bar where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other personalities of organized crime, such as Chicago gangster Al Capone Capone apparently had 1,000 armed men and half the police force of Chicago on his payroll.
For many middle-class white Americans, the ban was a way to assert some control over the unruly masses of immigrants who crowded the cities, for example, the so-called Drys, beer was known as Kaiser drinking beer was a symbol of everything they dislike in the modern city and eliminating alcohol would, they believed, back in time to an hour earlier and more comfortable.
The ban was not the only source of social tension in the 1920s, the great migration of African Americans from the South campaign to the cities of the North and the increasing visibility of jazz of black culture and blues music, for example, and the literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance discomfited some white Americans millions of people in places like Indiana and Illinois joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s for them the Klan was a return to all the values that the fast pace, the city slicker Roaring Twenties trampled.
Similarly, an anti-communist Red Scare in 1919 and 1920 encouraged a nativist widespread, or anti-immigrant hysteria This led to the adoption of a law on the very restrictive immigration, Act national origin in 1924, which set immigration quotas that exclude certain persons Eastern Europeans and Asians for the other Europeans and people of northern Britain, for example.
These conflicts what one historian called a cultural civil war between the citizens and residents of small towns, Protestants and Catholics, blacks and whites, New Women and defenders of family values in the former might -being the most important part of the history of the Roaring twenties.
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