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    America in the 1920s Essay In 1919‚ soldiers from World War One returned back to America and were not used to society. Many Americans wished for normalcy and believed the United States should go back to the way it was before the war. President Warren Harding was most popular for his promised actions toward normalcy. After becoming President‚ Harding did not change much of America and also died of a heart attack eight hundred and eighty one days into office. The main objective of normalcy was to

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    During the 1920s machines were more equipped to mass produce‚ and consumers were more ready to have an increase in their spending.This led to many citizens over buying stocks with promise of great fortune in return. Common families would often buy products promised

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    The Cotton Club Movie By Derick Sweeten The Cotton Club was a famous night club in New York during the early 20’s and 30’s. In this film Harlem’s Cotton Club of the 1920s was beautifully recreated and with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington performing in there. This club flourished during the prohibition era in the late 20’s and early 30’s. Richard Gere plays Dixie Dwyer‚ a young musician who works for mobsters in an effort to advance his career. Dwyer falls in love with Vera Cicero played

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    The 19th amendment - The 19th amendment was passed on August 18‚ 1920. This amendment gave women the right to vote‚ it made women equal to men in the political eyes. This happened after Tennessee legalized women’s rights as the 35th state. Since‚ it was the 35th state that passed this law making the two-thirds law kick in as majority rules. Women’s rights marches - This was marches that women suffragist did to spread the word about women’s oppressment. The biggest march was in 1913 started by

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    The Roaring Twenties The 1920s were an age of change and innovation. New technologies like the radio and refrigerators changed the way Americans lived. It saw dramatic social changes that would pit the past against the future. It would shape our nation decades to come. The Great War had ended‚ leaving Europe in ruins but America had been spared physically from the damage the war had caused allowing America’s economy to boom like never-before. Between 1923 and 1929 the average income rose 11 percent

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    In Germany around the 1920s‚ a psychiatrist by the name Hans Berger‚ Created a tool that would help researchers study and measure the rhythmic electrical activity in the brain. This tool would pick up the brain waves and create an EEG or electroencephalogram. This device has played an important role in the studying of our sleeping patterns. There are two different brain waves that occur when entering sleep. There is the beta brain waves that generate fast while preparing for you slumber and then

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    In the 1920s Henry Ford created the first american made horseless carriage. The first automobile was called the quadricycle. Henry Ford soon created The Ford Motor Company. After the first automobile was created The Ford Motor company worked hard to make another automobile. A few years later Ford rolled out the Model T. Henry Ford worked really hard to make the model T to be more affordable to the not so much wealthy people of the 1920s. The automobile was A huge upgrade from walking or riding a

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    Born in Manassa‚ Colorado on June 24‚ 1895‚ Jack Dempsey rose to boxing stardom in the 1920s. Dempsey started his boxing career at Young Peter Jackson’s Gym in Salt Lake City at the age of 16. He began his professional career in 1914‚ fighting in small mining towns in Colorado under the name "Kid Blackie". Dempsey emerged from numerous small saloon-floor boxing matches to victory in over 80 professional fights by the age of 24. Dempsey was a hard-nosed‚ fearless boxer‚ perhaps best known for

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    During the 1920s in the United States‚ the time period more commonly known as the “Roaring 20s”. It is regarded as an energetic era of prosperity where pop culture was developing‚ Hemlines got shorter and nights grew longer with the opening of speakeasy to join in the defiance of prohibition. During an age of dramatic social change‚ pop culture during the 1920s was characterized by the flapper‚ automobiles‚ speakeasies‚ and jazz. The twenties was the introduction of large scale use of electricity

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    Between 1870-1920‚ The progressive era emerged as a way to fix many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. This was done through multiple reformers who spoke out on issues such as temperance‚ sex education‚ rights for workers‚ and overall activists. Two of the most prominent movements were the Women’s and African American’s movements. Though both groups may have had different means of achieving the goals

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