Inventions Of The Roaring 1920's

The Roaring 1920s The roaring 1920s was a time where Americans were living the American dream. Many people called it the “age of excess” because it was the first time in American history that people could afford to buy in abundance and buy anything they pleased. The roaring 1920’s was effected by many inventions and a new life that Americans were adapting to. The production of the Model T’s, Baseball, Fashion, and Prohibition effected the 1920s. Americans were learning how to live the life. The Ford Model T was an automobile invented by Henry Ford. Henry Ford Company was called Ford Motor Company, and was successful from 1908 through 1927. It was considered the first affordable automobile. The first Model T was built on September 27,
In the early 1920s many players would throw games for money. They got paid more for throwing a game then actually winning the game. Major League baseball games leaped from 6 million during the 1910s to more than 9 million during the 1920s. Players’ salaries increased in the late 1920s especially for those players who smashed the balls into the bleaches 6. On September 28, 1920, a Chicago grand jury indicted eight Chicago White Sox baseball players for conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series, which they had played against the Cincinnati Reds. This was called “The White Sox Scandal”. The eight players accused were pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams , first baseman Arnold “Chick” Giandil, Shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg, third baseman George “Buck” Weaver, left fielder “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, center fielder Oscar “Happy” Felsch, and substitute infielder Fred McMullen. There was not enough evidence to convict the players. However, they were expelled from baseball for life on August 3, 1921. After this scandal many other sports like boxing, wrestling, track meets, and horse racing also came under suspicion because they were so closely associated with gamblers. Baseballs affected the 1920 by creating organized crime and corruption. Many people started to become obsessed with gambling and wasting their life earnings on
Many bootleggers secured their business by bribing the authorities, namely federal agents and persons of high political status. In large cities the homicide went from 5.6 (per 100,000 population) in the pre-prohibition period, to nearly 10 (per 100,000 population) during prohibition, nearly a 78 percent increase. Serious crimes, such as homicides, assault, and battery, increased nearly 13 percent, while other crimes involving victims increased 9 percent. Many supporters of prohibition argued that the crime rate decreased. This is true if examining only minor crimes, such as swearing, mischief, and vagrancy, which did in fact decrease due to prohibition. The major crimes, however, such as homicides, and burglaries, increased 24 percent between 1920 and 1921. In addition, the number of federal convicts over the course of the prohibition period increased 56 percent. The crime rate increased because “prohibition destroyed legal jobs, created black-market violence, unfocused resources from enforcement of other laws, and increased prices people had to pay for prohibited goods” 9. Although speakeasies were illegal, there were many benefits to those who took the risks of ownership. A speakeasy could net its owner a lot of money, but it also took money to make a profit. One of New York's proprietors estimated his operation costs at about $1370 per month. Of this