1. US History MT 4 – Final Project
By Laetitia Theeg, 01/04/2017, Class Period 7

2. 1920s: A decade of Social Transformation
The decade of the 1920s featured economic prosperity and carefree living for many. Many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio and motion pictures inaugurated a national culture. The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the vote in national politics and symbolized their persistence in efforts to break out of old patterns of domesticity. The war had accelerated their entrance into business, industry, and the professions and their adoption of practices, such as drinking and smoking, traditionally considered masculine. Young people turned to new leaders and values and sought unorthodox dress, recreations, and morals.

3. Prohibition
1920s
2000s
Consuming alcohol is not liked to see on public streets
Alcohol consumption can lead to violence, unemployment, economic and moral bankruptcy
Everyone has their own opinion on alcohol
Movements called for Americans to temper or moderate, their consumption of alcohol
Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors”
During prohibition America’s drinking dropped from 2.6 gallons to less than a gallon per person per year
The minimum legal age to purchase alcohol and to drink it is 21 in all States of the United States
Glass bottles on the streets are prohibited
One can enter most bars at 18 years of age but must be 21 years old to purchase or consume alcohol

4. Sports Mania
1920s
2000s
Baseball and Football popular spectator sports
Sports figure celebrities like Babe Ruth and Peyton Manning
High salaries: “Red” Grange and LeBron James Millionaires
Boxing championships among the most popular sporting events
Most people saw events live or listened on radio
Relatively few professional leagues, all segregated by race
Basketball among the most popular spectator sports
Most people see sporting events on television
Many professional leagues, all integrated

5. Increasing Consumerism
Then and now Salesmen advertised for their products
Consumers buy to make themselves feel better
People have a lot of Opportunities between they can choose
Advertising prospered by focusing on the psychology of buying
Consumerism became more prominent because of the introduction of a huge number of new goods
It was also influenced by the massive grow of the US economy
A lot of people always want to buy the latest things on the market, that is why they keep buying stuff
People nowadays have way more access to different markets through the Internet
The advertisement is more prominent

6. Improved Transportation
Vehicles change the way we life
They strengthen the economy and create jobs
They are since then part of your daily life
The American way of life changed because of the automobile and airplane
The vehicles allowed people to travel
It created a lots of jobs
Vehicles are part of our daily life and everywhere you go you can see them
Everyone has access to them through public transport
Nowadays we could go everywhere we want as long as we can afford it

7. Jazz is still a famous music genre
Harlem Renaissance
1920s
2000s
It is known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center.
Jazz is still a famous music genre
Harlem is known as an important touchpoint of American jazz, literature, and civil rights history
Great flourishing of culture within the African-American community
Powerful aspects of the Harlem Renaissance was its music
Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
Various music genres are popular and it does not depend on your race if your work gets popular
Hip Hop’s golden age is the 2000s
homosexual political activism has played a big role in the 2000s

8. Changing Role of Women 1920s 2000s
Most people expect women to be a good mother and wife
Women are allowed to vote
Women can be successful in their jobs
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote
Women started to work outside the home
Women cut their her short, wore short skirts, smoked and danced in public
Women are treated as equals with men
The same education is available to both genders
Women can own their own business and be their own boss

9. Popularity of Radio and Movies
Movie and Radio Industry creates jobs for thousands of people
It entertains, informs and advertises
It became a great leisure activity for many people
Radios became more affordable and a staple in working- class and middle-class homes
The movie industry grew as well and created thousands of jobs
Cinema and Radios created cheap, entertaining diversions during times of crises
Almost every household owns a TV or a Radio
Watching movies or listening radio is part of our daily life
We have access to News from all over the world

10. 1920s
On August 18, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, giving women the right to vote. A little bit later on November 2 the first commercially licensed radio broadcast was heard, from KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Eighteens Amendment the U.S. Constitution was passed in the 1920s and created the era of Prohibition. The amendment forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. Musical styles were also changing. Louis Armstrong started improvising and adding personal musical variations with his trumpet, playing in a style known as Jazz. The 1920s represented an era of change and growth. The decade was one of learning and exploration. America had become a world power and was no longer considered just another former British colony.

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