Castellon‚ Karen Period 5 Mrs. Wehunt March 30‚2012 The Jazz Age 1920`s Like all the changes during the course of history that the United States has experienced The Jazz age can be explained as a time to experiment and try different styles. This period was taken place during a time when big businesses started to grow even bigger and the United states became even more industrialized. The Jazz Age happened after WW1. During WW1 everyone was focused on the war. Everything the people would do
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Advancements of Medicine in the 1920’s Medicine had a huge advancement in the 1920s. Many scientists had discovered medicines‚ but it was hard for them to purify them and give them to people. Because of the discovery of penicillin‚ insulin‚ Band-Aids‚ and vitamins‚ the lives of the American people were greatly changed. Band-Aids were invented in 1920. An employee at Johnson and Johnson‚ Earle Dickson‚ made a way to help his wife with the various cuts that she would get throughout the day. He made
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prohibition introduced in America in the 1920? When federal prohibition was introduced in America with the 18th Amendment to the constitution in 1919 and the Volstead Act in 1920‚ it was often termed ‘The Nobel Experiment’. It didn’t take long for most people to recognise that the experiment had gone terribly wrong and that it was fostering what it was supposed to eradicate‚ crime‚ excess and corruption. But the question is why it was introduced in America in 1920 and to understand this issue‚ one has
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The conservative alliance‚ led by ex-ALP renegade and former prime minister Billy Hughes and prime minister Stanley Bruce‚ was quick to seize on socialist ALP factions and Irish militancy as evidence of ’Bolshevik Communism’. Intro The war‚ which had at first submerged national divisions in a wave of patriotism‚ had in its last years deepened those divisions‚ increasing the gulf between radicals and conservatives‚ those eligible who had fought and those who had not‚ and adding new divisions
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The Roaring 20’s There were many things that contributed to the so called “roaring “of the 1920’s. Some were things such as the economy was booming due to the nation’s wealth more than doubling‚ automobiles were made to be more affordable to accommodate the middle classes budget‚ nationwide advertising had a huge effect on socialism‚ and white collar jobs increased greatly opening up many new private businesses. The doubling of the nation’s wealth had a lot to do with the white collar jobs that were
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Changing attitudes in the 1920’s came about through progressivism‚ and the divide between country and urban life. Women were becoming more and more independent. Depression was beginning to sink its claws into the American economy first by way of rural towns and farms who felt the blow not with the stock market crash in 1929‚ but with the decline of agricultural prices in 1920. Most rural Americans still held to old traditions‚ and found how life was in the city offending to their beliefs and customs
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growth that happened during the 1920 ’s was very significant to sports today. Baseball wasn ’t always as popular is it was today. Babe Ruth started trending the high powered offense in Major League Baseball ("1920 ’s...and along came Babe"). Fans were impressed and helped baseball get a better fan base. Golf was also a new trending sport in the 1920s. Golf started getting more popular when they started to offer a reward to the winner such as 10‚000 in the LA open ("1920 ’s golf history"). Lastly football
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Boom and Bust At those times the United States of America were a land of opportunities. The 1920s were known as the boom years. The economic boom and bust in America was based around the consumer good‚ mostly luxury items that people wanted to buy but didn’t really need. American industry had profit by selling war goods to Britain and France. The disruption to British and French industry allowed America to become the world leading exporter. America only joined the war by the end‚ so it had
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In the 1920s‚ an era called the Jazz Age‚ also known as the roaring twenties‚ came about. The Jazz Age occurred when the economy of America was in its prime‚ before the tragedy of the Stock Market Crash and Great Depression. The Jazz Age brought forth significant female suffrage leaders‚ writers‚ and musicians‚ each influencing a different class of people in society. Jazz was created in the twentieth century by a group of African American musicians from New Orleans (Teachout). They
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The 1920s was a decade of many changes and conflicts. Benton MacKaye‚ an environmentalist during the time‚ was quoted as saying the 1920s were “the most volcanic of any area on earth” (Tindall and Shi 790). Due to the upheaval of World War I‚ so many people were forced to change their ideals. It pushed forth many positive and negative reactions and transformations in the people and society‚ such as: fundamentalism‚ new immigration laws and restrictions‚ a rise in organized crime‚ the modern
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