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The Roaring Twenties

Economic Boom Reasons: US the only industrial power, technology, industrial expansion, automobile industry booms- connected to other industries profits Result: Manufacturing output rises 60%, income raises by 33%, more technological advances happen

Consumerism Middle class Americans could afford to buy more leisure and luxury items Electric refirgerators, washing machines, irons, vacuum cleaners Automobiles: allowed for more travel, vacations, escaping isolation Advertising increases: newspapers, magazines and radio

The 1920’s woman Pink Collar Jobs- low paying service jobs (secretaries, sales clerks, telephone operators The Flapper- a more liberated lifestyle where women could drink, dance, smoke, wear make-up, wear more seductive clothes, more freedom of expression Margaret Sanger and birth control- planned parenthood, sexual activity with purpose other than reproduction Continued push for the ERA

Prohibition- This isn’t working Began January of 1920- a “noble experiment” Only 1500 agents to enforce the laws- just as easy to get illegal alcohol as legal alcohol Speakeasies- illegal bars sprang up across the country Al Capone and other organized crime took advantage and expanded to include prostitution, gambling, and other drugs

The Lost Generation The Lost Generation: America’s youth that came out of World War I Rejected Wilson’s idealism, viewed the war as a waste of time, getting back to business as usual Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)- anti war F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby (1925)- a critique on obsession with material success

Harlem Renaissance Flourishing of African American culture Explosion of jazz music- Duke Ellington Literature: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Thurston

Religious Fundamentalism Evolution v. Creationism Modernists v. Fundamentalists Scopes Monkey Trial- Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan

Entertainment The Radio- almost every family had one by the end of the 1920’s (NBC and CBS are born) Dance Halls- dance craze swept the nation, 10% of men and women 17-40 went dancing once a week, The Charleston becomes popular Hollywood- sound comes to movies, The Jazz Singer (1927), 40 million people saw movies in 1922