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The Century: Boom to Bust (1920-1929)

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Introduction (Census of 1920/Prohibition/New York top 2%) - the night life was flowing with bands playing and liquor everywhere - the 18th amendment banned the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages as well as consumption of alcoholic beverages, however no one really paid attention to the law - the liquor was sold behind closed doors at places like speakeasies - it became a dangerous game for the high stakes players battles between rival gangs for control of illegal liquor territories riddled American cities with mushrooming murder rates prohibitions - prohibition in the general disregard which followed it was the perfect symbol for the 20s a decade which was about crossing the line smashing tradition breaking boundaries - these skyscrapers in New York was an example of the new form of achieving a kind of thrilling scale and nobility or people weren't there then lived in the average small town in America - the number of millionaires in the 1920s jumped four hundred percent over the previous decade

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Jazz/Harlem Renaissance: - Harlem was born this idea of the new of an African American someone who stood up for the African American who advertised his and her contributions to American culture who was proud to be black - the capital of jazz in the 1920s was just a subway ride uptown in Harlem it was in Harlem clubs that one could see the artists at the forefront of this fresh and uniquely American music performers such as Louie Armstrong Bessie Smith and Duke - while Harlem seemed a promised land for black Americans New York's Lower East Side was for European immigrants their gateway to the American dream

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Immigrants (short section) - this was perhaps the most mixed city racially ethnically in the country but cities all around the country had become more important because changed who is centered in the city's business, industry, and culture - immigrants were happy to work throughout the week for wages and enjoyed the american dream

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New Technologies (including the Automobile) - most Americans lived without electricity when night fell only candles and lamps held off the darkness - that surge of new power came first to the cities and by the decades end the majority of American homes had electricity - the car would give Americans a sense of autonomy and freedom the freedom to escape their city or town to go away on a vacation or simply on a day's outing - by mid-decade the government was spending more than 1 billion dollars on the construction of highways bridges and tunnels the beginnings of a national infrastructure

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which meant the country together by mid-decade the government was spending more than 1 billion dollars on the construction of highways bridges and tunnels the beginnings of a national infrastructure which meant the country together advertising helped transform not just a physical landscape but the cultural one along with advertising came the expansion of a brand new consumer concept, credit by 1927 75% of all household goods were bought on credit and in the last years of the decade the item desired most was the radio within six months every store in America even grocery stores we're selling radios

Women: - throughout the 1920s women would assert a newfound freedom and independence and nothing symbolized it more than the 19th amendment in 1920 after 81 years of agitation women won the right to vote - a woman's lot had changed in almost every way she thought that she had the right to live for herself rather than for her family - flapper was the type of young woman who just wanted to see how far she could go and then would stop because she'd be afraid to go too far

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Rural v. Urban America (tensions) - in one small American town the forces of traditional religion and modern science would clash in a battle heard around the world here in Dayton Tennessee in the summer of 1925 one of the century's most famous courtroom battles would take place John T Scopes stood accused of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution that man and ape shared a common ancestor - the most unsettling about the pace of change in the 1920s was that people really wanted both the benefits of the future and the familiar comforts of the past - they know they cannot have books and this creates psychological tension within American society that is then looking for somewhere to go and it goes into hatred towards immigrants hatred towards people who wasn't be different it goes into intolerance and into the Ku Klux Klan

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Heroes - sports Giants became household names their every move followed by radio and an eager tabloid - Babe Ruth George Herman Ruth the babe reshaped America's pastime in an era of big events he excelled at the games biggest excitement the home run he hit 60 of them in a single season in 1927 a record that would stand for four decades - no one had ever flown solo across the Atlantic before six others had tried failed and died ready to take the chance this time was Charles Lindbergh the six-foot-two son of a former congressman from Minnesota thousands of people came to watch him take off - his flight had represented the best of an era a mastery of modern technology joined with old-fashioned values of courage individualism and hard-won achievement

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on November the 29th 1929 Admiral Byrd's aircraft flew 500 feet above the geographic South Pole he dropped a stone wrapped in an American flag Americans and their airplane had reached the ends...