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the decade of a 1920s with an exciting time in American history steam The Roaring Twenties by historians it was a period of unparalleled Prosperity it was a time of rapid industrialization and social experimentation we can hero of artistic Renaissance in new roles for women it was a time of heroes and villains  it was Sage is the moon from the battlefields of World War 1 the American people were tired of their countries interventionism and wanted to avoid future foreign war if that's it cause heavy American Dental Woodrow Wilson Fields win enough support for the Treaty of Versailles and the treaty failed to be ratified  as result America dropped out of the League of Nations the 1920 the Republican presidential candidate Warren G Harding promised a return to normalcy meeting America with isolated self the rest of the world and focus on the problems at home  a return to normalcy with just what Americans wanted  party's campaign with success he was inaugurated president of the United States in 1921 in addition to the changes in governmental attitude the American people facing enormous social change when the new series of laws called contact  the 18th Amendment passed during the Wilson Administration banned the production distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages prohibition was the end result of years of lobbying by the temperance movement members of groups such as the women's Christian Temperance Union in the Andes argue the hall while legal was it different to society  these helped attending the production and sale of such drinks would help the poor by able to save the money that normally waste on liquor  Temperance Crusaders also felt the prohibition would protect the Young from alcoholism and other businessman agreed healing the worker productivity with increase in production of alcohol on January 16th 1920 America became a nation despite the best intentions of the temperance movement no sooner was the law enacted and thousands of illegal bars again this product called speakeasies these underground establishments were available only to patrons who password speakeasies off an occupied back rooms and basements and legitimate businesses and offered paying customers their choice of it illegal drink bootlegging the illegal manufacture of alcohol became a source of income for sale Americans and none benefited more than those involved in organized crime rival gang control the flow of liquor and 42 other for control of the strings  civilians were sometimes caught in the crossfire does crime increase it became clear the prohibition was not working no law was more openly violated by the American people lighted provision Remain the law of the land until it was repealed in 1933 American states other problems that the decade began after World War one is war production CC what state split into an economics flop  President Harding and his successor Calvin Coolidge believed that the future of America land big business the business of America is business President Coolidge said in his speech the newly isolationist government supported the growth of big business in prosperity taulant  Coolidge known as silent Cal in the prayers for his distaste for long speeches believe the business would take care of itself turno governmental interference  two large parties did between 1923 and 1928 national unemployment never Rose above three point seven percent and industrial workers wages raised an average of 8% As Americans had more money they in turn back to Big Business by investing in the stock market the market store to hand reaching New Heights and paying increasing dividends even those who couldn't afford it invested buying shares borrowed money there seemed to be no end to the Market's upward rise the new song focus on business with the result of the Third Revolution  as a nation rapidly industrialize more and more work became available in factories and the population in cities 12 the 1920s marked the first time in history that more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas basic utilities such as natural gas running water and electricity work sing increasingly available  with hot and cold running water people Bazemore  gas stoves decrease the amount of pulled up in kerosene fumes in the hole electric light offered a better safer source of Mike to citizens who formally let their homes with gas lamps and candles  members middle and upper classes could purchase new electric appliances like refrigerators washing machine and vacuum cleaners another electronic convention changing American Life radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania radio program people actually heard the news program it was the beginning of a new information era  you're three years later there were over five number radio stations broadcasting news for entertainment programs by the end of the decade hundreds of radio stations were linked to form the two major Radio Networks the National Broadcasting Corporation and the Columbia broadcasting system  wasn't half of American households were tuning in to NBC NCB turn their own radio receivers by the end of the decade  perhaps the most revolutionary change to American Life came in the form of the autumn cars of Benetton before 1920 was due to a revolutionary new idea that production  automaker Henry Ford at the idea to create an assembly line of workers all of this Skil model proceeded down the assembly line workers would apply their unique skill in the car would be completed much faster than was previously possible which method work so fast in fact that my 1925 Ford boasted that a Model T car was completed every 10 seconds the result the Model Tees nice truck from $850 to $290 by 1924  why 1929 23 million cars were driving on a is ever-expanding roadways  in addition to increasing American Mobility the automobile was a key factor in the growth of suburbs and cities patient increased the middle and upper classes moved out driveway you're quieter new communities the standard of living in America was on the highest quality of life in the world in particular were enjoying a much higher standard of living than they ever previously know the Nineteenth Amendment had given women the right to vote and it was in the 1920 election that will first participated on a national level women were able to voice their political concerns and social issues with soon given the weight of their support lobbying groups like The Women's Trade Union League improve working conditions for women  the national woman's party tried to gain support go to Equal Rights Amendment Margaret Sanger for women health education and Reproductive Rights organization the women's birth control League women were also enjoying more social and educational opportunities more women than ever before we're graduating from high school going to college and getting jobs how many women became telephone Operators manual like connecting phone calls in the rapidly growing industry young women benefited the most from these New Freedom skinny young women began questioning the restrictive ideals of women's roles in society they wanted the same social Freedom did men enjoy leopard these young women Bob their hair use makeup and warm or revealing dresses Flappers with the speakeasies dance and kiss man in public conservatives were outraged by what they perceive to be the Flappers in moral behavior and Utah legislators went so far as to ban skirts that were higher than 3 is above the ankle  Clippers looked at magazines and movies to get ideas about the latest fashion 1 movie time for Clara Bow became the flapper icon of the era teaching women to be more assertive women weird alone and disregarding the conventions of the past the 1920s Mark the emergence of a distinct used cup Dubai movies music and dance these young people had little intention of living the same life as a parent  will use movement was encapsulated by the most air dam for the E R Us the Charleston Charleston had his roots in African-American culture what is infectious Rhythm soon Swift to the white use of America what's Wild jerky movements and cheerful upbeat tempos  the dentist fast movement made the loose dresses to the flapper is mandatory and Men off to wear wide leg pants called Oxford bad the Charleston gave you an American 10 excuse to kick up their heels and enjoy life one author particular of the Flaming youth F Scott Fitzgerald novels and short stories reflected the Carefree youth culture in post-world ideals  Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda live the life he wrote about in his book The Experience The Roaring Twenties first hand Fitzgerald wasn't the only other people were reading in the twenties  a group of writers who were discontented with life in postwar America led to Europe what weather is like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein row great novels and discontent after World War 1 signed up this group The Lost Generation and world well reading was still a favorite time what many Americans movie putting too thrilled at the comedies of Charlie Chaplin the sweeping romances of Rudolph Valentino and the freewheeling flapper antics of Clara Bow  movies were a reflection of society's attitudes Styles and attitudes were being influenced by the cinema a 1927 popularity grew even further planes was also known as a golden age college football  woodgrain to pull back from the University of Chicago was called the plane goes for his Speed and Agility running 3637 yards between 1923 and 1925 hit Sullivan Post Chicago Bears in 1925 further increasing the popularity of professional football  the splitting of the decade Undisputed heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey lost the title to Gene Tunney Dempsey it held the championship for seven years prior to his defeat Spectators who couldn't make the event which took place in Philadelphia to commemorate the city's 150th anniversary listen to it at home women who participated in the Golden Age of sports  Gertrude ederle became a national sensation when she swam the English turn on the summer of 1926 who became the first woman to swim the channel and she top the record set by a male by two hours luminary of the golden age of sports emerged in baseball George Herman Ruth nicknames play who's had a 393 batting average and was named MVP of the American League 13 year Yankee Stadium was opened in the Bronx it was Purdue as a house to group this with the assistance of the Sultan of Swat the Yankees won six pennants and three World Series during this way perhaps one of the largest contributions to society in the twenties came in the form of jazz music African American musicians develop Adam to staple of nightclubs and speakeasies from Chicago to New York  talented musicians like cornet player and band leader Armstrong composer Duke Ellington and blues singer Bessie Smith helped develop the sound and white musicians like Benny Goodman helped popularize this new music with who's again  many of these clubs like The Cotton Club in New York City Harlem only accepted play Patriots African American music on February 12th 1920 the white composer by the name of George gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue in a concert hall in New York City the composition which was heavily influenced by Jazz became a popular concert piece from this point on it was clear that the Roaring Twenties could just have easily been called The Jazz Age Genesis only one element of a great artistic movement have Ben Hartman the 1920s  the movement was called the Harlem Renaissance at it in compass not only music but literature and politics as well how to become the most popular music of the time  but what is Langston Hughes and Jean toomer to introduce African-American culture and concerns to the world Marcus Garvey became the most important political leader of the Harlem Renaissance with his Universal negro Improvement Association play the largest black organization in US history racial pride and self-rule Marcus Garvey short to create an independent black economy and plan to lead followers to the creation of the empire of Africa and Asia and Africa is it would provide African-Americans with the Liberty they were denied in the United States advancements made by African-Americans in Harlem minorities and recent immigrants were largely Untouched by the prosperity of the decade  trafficking Americans stop the way of life it remained largely unchanged since the post-civil war. Many African Americans worked to sharecroppers giving up most of their crops to wife turn Lauren exchange for the right to work the land Costa Rican immigrants work for low wages in factories what is the biggest hardships with the fact of the 1920s with a period of intense nativism  white Americans who believe they have the rights to the land where called nativist state of Benjamin space largely on Zen a phobia the fear of anything strange or foreign what are the largest Native groups in America was the Ku Klux Klan  the KKK was empty black as he Catholic any Semitic in any immigrants changed American Catholic for placing allegiance to the pope of the United States and believe Jews can pull movies and music using them to promote simple activities the group spread outward into the Midwest and by 1923 that controlled free state government by 1924 the when was at its peak in popularity mostly more than 4 million members including politicians and high-ranking members of law enforcement  play member to go on nighttime sprees of violence where they were terrorized or Lynch those they saw his enemies to their way of life this is not to say that all those in power were corrupted by the politics of the clan  is the timber 1923 the Governor of Oklahoma place the state under martial law give me the temp to reduce plan violence over 4,000 tens and during the three weeks the martial law was in effect still the KKK remained of force to be reckoned with the 1925 40000 X Men marched down Pennsylvania Avenue as an exhibition of their political power see the reviews were just restricted to Fringe groups like the KKK  the 1921 1924 + 19 the US government Pass New restrictive immigration law  these laws were designed to prevent potential troublemakers from entering America but there was a racist element that favored immigrants from northern and western Europe who are predominately English actors the quota system sharply limited the number of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe thereby limiting the entry of Jews and Italian Catholics in the country  he should never true completely band part of the reason for the fear of foreigners with anxiety about the rising threat of Communism throughout the world  the singer became known as the Great Red Scare Americans were fearful that foreign radicals were planning on overthrowing the government and abolishing America's Democratic way of life attorney general A Mitchell Palmer rounded up more than 4,000 people among them alleged communist socialist and anarchist but senior Sacco and Vanzetti to Italian immigrants believes to be anarchists were arrested for armed robbery and murder  am I rue21 they were found guilty in both were sentenced to die in the electric chair  many Americans were outraged by the verdict and protected under the accuse fearing they were condemned for their unpopular political beliefs despite the demonstration Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927 the week rapidly changing Nations convention were met with skepticism in fear  on April 24th 1925 High School you're in Dayton Tennessee named John T Scopes lecture on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution  he was subsequently arrested because the Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools fundamentalist from Darwin to be in opposition to the teachings of the Bible the American civil liberties Union The Hired one of the most famous lawyers of the time defense attorney Clarence Darrow to defend scopes Tennessee State officials hired former Presidential nominee insane prosecutor William Jennings Bryan's to argue on behalf of the Fundamentalist the two-week trial called The Monkey Trial in the Press began on July 10th 1925  Daryl made it a point to poke holes in landscape going so far as to call Brian to the stand to testify as a Biblical expert  Daryl carefully-crafted his questions in the hopes that Brian cancers with cause laughter throughout the courtroom and win support for the defense but at the trials in the jury sided with the Fundamentalist scopes with phones guilty and was forced to pay a $100 fine  Daryl use the cases of platform to the media in order to arouse interest in how much. Of Illusion Darwin's theories of subsequently become a standard part of many school science program tragically prosecutor William Jennings Bryan died of a heart attack just five days after the trial ended in the newspaper today it was a. We're heroes gangsters and Scandals all by 4 front page headlines arguably the most celebrated Heroes of the day came from the world of Aviation sense of World War 1 many former Pilots perform death-defying stunts in order to earn a living setting headlines in the imaginations of the nation home these Barnstormers emerged Charles Lindbergh who went on to become one of the decade's most revered celebrity on May 20th 1927 Lindbergh became the first person to successfully flying solo transatlantic flight  who's playing the girl that sings Lewis departed New York and touchdown in Paris 33 hours and 29 minutes later this 3610 my journey prove that 80 Asian was a viable means of transportation  just sweet month after lucky Lindsey's fly Pete Sheppard Air Lines are offering flights between variance American cities by trip from New York to Boston to three hours by plane and prove considerably actors in The Railroad before long a female Aviator with commanding the majority of newspaper headlines  a 19 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane as a passenger later that same year she became the first person to fly round trip across the u.s. took her from New York to Los Angeles and back to New York again notable Dylan got a fair share of publicity as well  organized crime is on the rise in the 1920s gangsters violated prohibition creative expensive Empire like telling book by Delco  the most intimate of these Gangland figures with Al Capone known in the practice Scarface because of my 1926 Capone was leading a chicago-based prime ring which included over seven hundred men 10 speakeasies and bootlegging operations that span from Florida to Illinois  cancers like to pull up and seen by the public is Defiance of authority  but in 1929 a ruthless execution-style killing in a garage on North Clark Street playing the lives at 7 minutes this horrific event called the st. Valentine's Day Massacre turn the tide of public opinion against Al Capone I know it was common knowledge that Capone order to hit no arrest was made  it would be two more years before Capone was sent to prison and he was never charged with murder Capone was convicted for income tax evasion in 1931 the year 19 whats up Babe Ruth become one of the nation's greatest heroes was also the year that baseball suffered one of its greatest scandals  on September 28th members of the Chicago White Sox for throwing the first second and final game to the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Red all eight members of the team were suspended have a team was referred to as a black socks in the Pratt Scandal Rock the Harlem Renaissance when a 1923 Marcus Garvey was sent to prison  the head of the universal negro Improvement Association with convicted of mail fraud President Coolidge pardons Garvey two years later but the Scandal organization Beyond repair ruining any chances. We have established the Empire of Africa even politics all major Scandal early in the decade  Hobart fall the Secretary of the Interior during the Harding in Venice secretly federally protected Navy oil reserves to Harry Sinclair of Mammoth oil company  this was just the beginning of what became known is Teapot Dome scandal which got its name for the teapot shaped Rock located near the oil Reserves  fall continue taking bribes from oil companies play nearly $400,000 in exchange for allowing those companies to illegally exploit the government oil Reserves a senate committee led by Senator Robert LaFollette just cover the scheme and it sent shockwaves through the Harding and Coolidge Administrations  how many calories men we're forced to resign from office and convicted who was fined $100,000 and forced to every year in prison  for many The Teapot Dome scandal became a symbol for corruption in the government the lack of any other major Scandal during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge restore many Americans faith in government in the Years following the Teapot Dome scandal  Coolidge it's a sin what is mustard in the long period of wealth and prosperity that reward many in middle and upper-class Society these prosperity virtually guarantees the election Nextel Republican Herbert Hoover president of the United States in 1928 over continue the laissez-faire hands-off policies of his predecessors and the economic gains continue the stock market continued to study ride and it seemed to have no end in a speech Hoover is quoted as saying before long poverty banished from this land unfortunately the optimism shared by President Hoover in the American people was not in currently grounded in reality in reality the end very near but the final years of the 1920 the concentration of American Wealth was resting with an increasingly smaller percentage of the population play wages had improved during the decade it was a tough business venture week most of the benefits of the exploding economy this ever-widening gap between rich and more was beginning to have her the economic pool  that coupled with decreasing industrial production in massive over speculation in the stock market that's it need for an economic crisis on Thursday October 24th 1929 the market dropped sharply and a Mantis tiller yeah  prices kept fall and investors were forced to sell their stock at a loss  holiday that came to be known as Tuesday October 29th 99 the stock market crashed and countless investors lost all of their money  The Clash Rock the roaring 20 to a screeching halt and pave the way for the Great Depression that would last for the next decade  the 1920s Munich time in the history of America country new rules an international power retreated from the world stage to work on the problem the result was a. Of social political and economic extermination who successes and failures help to shape the nation we live in the twenties with the beginning of the modern era a fever pitch of prosperity artistic achievement and technological event safe with the combination of all these on the name the 20 Roar

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