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The Roaring Twenties

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it was a time of start and some startling contrast in American Life alcohol was outlawed turn the airwaves and just about everybody who could afford it went to the movies in the Roaring 20s The Roaring Twenties in the rookie designated play and prosperity no unemployment and many Americans were better off financially real wealth was I'm pretty Ramones Chester few families 60% of America's riches were owned by only 2% of the people the 27,000 100 wealthiest as much money as the 12 million forest with the end of World War 1 the country test wanted to return to but prices shut up with the increased demand for goods and services while wages we're still low what band on razors and labor strikes during the war Boston police walked off control sagging clumsy return City officials granted no negotiation the police force was replaced without the option to return 343000 Steel Workers staged a nationwide strike only to take a violent to see when substitute workers were higher rioting erected resulting in the mobilization of federal troops 18 Steel Workers lost their lives in the struggle the walkout lasted for months with no reward as a Labour unrest spread across the country some Americans felt it would be fostered by radical symbol play Dominic and social system where Prosperity is owned by everyone and needs of the whole are more important than those of the individual this so-called Red Scare was it a high presidential election of 1919 and Ohio lieutenant governor Warren G Harding's campaign promise of a return to normalcy was with the country wanted to hear and believe  America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums add normalcy not Revolution but restoration  handsome good-natured and well-spoken Harding and his running mate in Coolidge of Massachusetts easily defeated the Democratic ticket of James Cox and Franklin D Roosevelt  Harding's proposal of a return to going back to pre for gressive era policies he was opposed to the federal government interference in business Affairs and Moe's social reforms the rejected Woodrow Wilson's play that Americans should actively participate in the League of Nations  we seek no part in directing the Destinies of the old world  Harding's isolationist policy keeping America out of world affairs was popular and his successors presidents in Coolidge and Herbert Hoover followed his lead for the decade Harding's cabinet was dealing with pro-business appointees including Herbert Hoover had a Commerce Committee Secretary of State and Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury in 1923 added Congress Hughes Milling plan which on the surface soda General reduction in income taxes in fact the plan cut the top income bracket level from 50% to 25 lonely reducing the lowest bracket from 4% to 3 Congressman William Massachusetts was outraged when this bill which is going to save mr. melon himself 800 $1 on his income tax and his brothers $600,000 on his I cannot give it my support  nevertheless the Mellon plan passed as did his proposal to raise tariffs on imported goods to one of the highest levels in history Americans soon stop by foreign made products impossible for France and Great Britain to repay their debts to the United States Terry of Commerce Hoover aggressively helped American businesses recover from the war effort while Secretary of State Hughes convince the leading world powers to reduce despite these recoveries at Harding's popularity by the end of his third year Scandal rocked his administration is old poker buddies from Ohio homemade handed jobs in government or caught taking bribes Harding expressed his disappointment I have no trouble with my enemies but my friends they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights  the worst defense of notorious Ohio gang involuntary of the Interior Albert Fall during the Progressive Era oil-rich public lands located Teapot Dome Wyoming and field California set aside for use by the Navy transferred control of those land to his apartment then secretly least them to oil companies in exchange for $100,000 in bonds cattle and cash by the summer of 1923 Harding confused and disillusioned by the Betrayal of his friends left washing photos of will trip to Alaska upon his return to San Francisco he became ill and died on August 2nd Harding's Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumed office at simple honest and quiet man he once joked about his subdued demeanor I have never been hurt by what I haven't said  silent Cal Coolidge was nicknamed was elected president one year later receding was 16 million votes head would have easily won a second term but unexpectedly decided not to run which Coolidge at the helm continuing Harding's pro-business policies it was boom times for the American economy over 40% of the world's wealth belong to America with 11,000 millionaires Living in America by 1926  length of the construction of plants homes and author building store by the end of the Era construction had begun on the moon meanwhile on the please follow millions of Americans burn to dry  at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties there were only eight million automobiles registered in the US by the end of the decade more than 3 million Henry Ford Ford one enema everyone will have one  America's new love affair with the car spurred production of rubber steel glass and gasoline mobil America wanted New Roads new destinations and new places to live the suburbs photo making became a major American industry automakers perfected the assembly line method of manufacturing weather  Scientific Management Champion by Frederick Taylor Revolution find the most time efficient ways to complete a task and increased production rate of Technology Farmers adopted modern methods and but with an entirely different results larger more efficient Farm utilizing more farm machinery human labor created an over auction of farm Commodities many farmers in borrowed money to expand their Farms volume prices and income for Mini in the bankruptcy congressman from Farm States unified as the van block and French supports and legislation to eight Farmers repeatedly President Coolidge detailed their account Farmers wish that silent now would just remain silent is remarks run thin little consolation well Farmers have never made much money I don't believe can't do much about it reached 20% increase in the number of homes with electricity between 1913 and 1927 number grew by 465% moderately priced electrical conveniences like vacuum cleaners washing machine send refrigerator sounded more and more American households Shane stores like Sears and JCPenney did a Brisk business selling they made clothes and grocery cafeterias like Piggly Wiggly the Forerunner of the modern Supermarket Longford everything from canned foods play spread advertising consumers into the stores and readily available credit using the installment plan made buying these American suddenly found they had much more time for community and leisure activities telephones and later radios in common most middle-class homes mass transit streetcars and subways used to move mail from coast to coast in 1927 from lucky Lindy's still low 3614 my flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris and shared his place as Americas 404 million people witnessed China's investment return to America Lacey  Lindbergh's flight also captured the imagination of the public and stirred their interest in flying I look forward to the day when transatlantic flying will be a regular thing soon the single-engine Lockheed Vega and the Ford tri-motor airplane and already became even more so despite the economic boom times the Roaring Twenties was a period of great tension between American Social racial and moral beliefs which constantly being challenged a fear of Communism socialism and Anarchy any Fork led to one of the most notorious convictions and executions in American history to Italian immigrants anchor Nicola Sacco and fishmonger bartolomeo Vanzetti were accused of robbing and killing a factory paymaster and a guard Sacco and study admitted to being a darkest people who want to abolish all forms of government and being draft Dodgers during World War One however what maintained they have not committed the crime  on the basis of circumstantial evidence Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and executed their guilt or innocence is still debated today guilty or not the case Persona 5 the fear Americans had it immigrants some citizens jobs rightfully belonging to American citizens between 1919 and 1941 the yearly number of new immigrants and shut up 141205 and Congress bowed to the pressure of Americans with nativist Attitudes by passing a new law limiting immigration into the US additional restrictions were imposed three years later when the National Origins Act of 1924 further limited immigration next discriminated against people from eastern and southern Europe mostly Roman Catholics and Jews and excluded immigration of Japanese citizens laws did not apply to immigrants from the Western Hemisphere however at approximately 1 million Canadians and half a million Mexicans who borders into the u.s. the increasing popularity of nativism also stirred the Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan whose members had tormented until many African Americans in the south after the Civil War American products and not white while attempting to Stamp Out the Imperial wizard of the KKK summed up the plans Doctrine succinctly it is 1946 the Clans fight for americanism when he revealed the Klan slogan native white Protestant Supremacy although the KKK dominated certain State politics at times during the Roaring Twenties its popularity waned after Indiana Clan Chieftain DC Steve Stevenson was indicted in jail for a brutal assault on a female assistant the resulting Scandal and his conviction second degree murder signal the decline of the Clans political influence and by the end of the decade membership had Wendell to only $50,000 call the hateful Ku Klux Klan was growing in popularity of peaceful separatist movement was gaining a large group of followers garveyism Marcus Garvey a Jamaican founded the universal negro Improvement Association in 1914 he moved his organization to New York and bye mid-1920s there were more than 10 million members  the association held to Central bullies the first was it blacks return to Africa and build a homeland of their own Darby and even designed a uniform for himself as the provisional president of Africa second Garvey insisted his followers should not envy or imitate whites or sighet agration black is beautiful he declared you are better than white people Garvey started the successful newspaper and the steamship company to help raise funds for the cause ship company the Black Star failed he was convicted of mail fraud and sent to prison  only a handful of his followers actually return Africa these fundamental belief in the dignity and pride by all African Americans The Roaring Twenties first time in American history not only two new and challenging fittingly demonstrates the clash between traditional moral values of a country and the modern mores of the city the Scopes trial and prohibition in 1925 the state of Tennessee passed a law that outlawed any teaching of English biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution Darwin's book The Origin of Species challenge contemporary beliefs about creation and outraged fundamentalist Christians interpretation of the Bible believe in God created the universe in six days  John Scopes for high school biology teacher from Dayton Messi believe Darwin was right and despite the state law taught his students the theory of evolution as a result Scopes was charged under the auntie Evolution statue that went to trial for the misdemeanor the American civil liberties Union or ACLU what you been founded during the Red Scare earlier second the most renowned trial lawyer of the day Clarence Darrow to defend Scopes the prosecutor was equally well-known Jennings Bryan a three-time candidate for president skilled orator and fundamentalist Christian  the Press had a field and called it the Monkey Trial as the big city reporters repeatedly made fun roll down use sterile defended his stance we have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling education of the United States and you know it and that is all although the judge found John Scopes guilty of violating the state's law many felt that Clarence Darrow had actually won the case because he had managed to get William Jennings Bryan who admit on the stand that he did not actually believe the Earth was created in 6 24 hour days the Tennessee Supreme Court later turn the verdict on a technicality and Scopes was set free but the debate over teaching the theory of evolution in schools still continues Americans with conservative Traditional Values succeeded in convincing Congress to Hibbett the sale and use of alcohol quotations the noble experiment is Herbert Hoover dubbed it simply didn't work on January 16th 1920 the 18th Amendment Constitution was passed out law on sale or transportation of alcohol play rural Americans from the south evangelist desserts that his son shall die a drunkard or that his daughter should be consigned to The Tender Mercies of a drunken husband  chilly Sunday got his wish when full edition be symbol mobile apps but did not stop people from drinking alcohol illegal clubs where is smuggled in by organized crime which provided illegal brooch Roar Prime not list 13 years later the noble experiment was over Roaring Twenties are often called The Jazz Age time with new forms of art like Jasmine word with a distinctly American player and a war literature learning ways the Sun phone fever with Americans as did the writing of F Scott Fitzgerald who's Great Gatsby depicted the new American dream of well the success Sinclair Lewis examine the realities of life in small town America revealing its green and lack of culture when the stage groundbreaking playwrights like Eugene O'Neill presented dramas that focused on family conflict and insulation in the age artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe depicted life in urban America in the twenties know where was America's uniqueness more evidence play music from George Gershwin instant success with Rhapsody In Blue and Concerto in F to the phenomenal growth of a truly American Musical jazz jazz was born in New Orleans in the early part of the century a blend of the Blues and ragtime migrating African Americans brought this music to the north a great many settling in the Upper West Side of New York City in an area called Harlem Harlem became the center not only became the heart of African American creativity during the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes two performers like Duke Ellington Smith was the highest paid African-American for Josephine Baker have been working stars spreading the influence of the Harlem Renaissance and listening to the radio Sacramento radio became their main source of news about the world Americans were also leaving their homes to find new entertainment set the movie 1925 houses nice and why many of them elaborate picture, with the Advent attendance double women also saw a new image of merch for them in the Roaring Twenties having finally gotten the right to vote with the passage of the nine play the men to the Constitution women throughout their shoes and dull lower length dresses were short skirts to a woman of the Roaring 20s also have new choices she doesn't necessarily have to be a housewife anymore he said what did the memory at all have children go to work or build a career marriage became more of a romantic Choice equal play was not probably in the workforce with women usually earning much less than men even when they perform the same job medical schools went so far as to an strict quotas on the number of women allowed to enter Americans were also reading hate million more Americans were reading newspapers by the mid-20 many enjoying tabloids and magazines featuring Sensational stories about gangsters and agitators by the end of the decade 10 can you set circulation of more than two million  literacy was on the rise the number of people attending High School had quadrupled since 9 M14 and high school was no longer just for college-bound students Americans also discovered the pleasures of watching Palouse Falls Leroy Satchel Paige the boxing Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey entertainment of all kinds I'm part of the legacy of the Roaring Twenties has Americans been over 4.5 billion dollars on entertainment much of it on Past Times and fat show me those pants like flagpole sitting almost I'll listen to America finally free of the fear and drudgery of War how most people view the Roaring Twenties please. Of relative Prosperity unfortunately displacing outward appearance of stability the American economy late 1929 would be brought to its knees by the start of the Great Depression  but until stock market crashed the twenties were indeed roaring set a timer for 15 minutes

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