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The early 1900s were filled with many new social ideas and changes. New faces arose during this time‚ and many new ideas changed the shape of society. Among these were race relations‚ the role of women in society‚ and the ever-heated modernism versus fundamentalism debate. Relationships between races were very sketchy during the early 1900s. Racism was still very strong in the country‚ and ethnic groups settled in an area and created their own little communities. Harlem‚ New York was a black
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The Elizabethan Era The Elizabethan Era is named after one of the greatest Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth. It was known as the Renaissance age. The Elizabethan era was an important and one of the most fascinating periods. In the history of England many developments‚ inventions and new ideas were introduced during the Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan Era is not only famous for the Virgin Queen but also for the era itself - Great Explorers‚ such as Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh
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Sports Left an Impact Sports in the 1920’s were not only important to how the games themselves were transformed‚ but also as an impact on America as a whole. The most monumental sports in the era included baseball‚ boxing‚ and football. Other sports like Golf and Basketball were in their infant years‚ as the 20’s marked the beginning of these sports being put onto a small portion of the spotlight. Prior to the Great Depression‚ the 20’s had begun a booming era in terms of income and jobs. With this
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The Baroque Era Rebecca Mozingo Mr. Craton Period 8 The Baroque Era was a period for artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear and easily interpreted detail to produce drama‚ tension‚ exuberance and grandeur in sculpture‚ painting‚ architecture‚ literature and dance and music. It started around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy and spread to most of Europe and ended around the 1750’s. The Baroque era was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent
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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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Prohibition During the 1920’s to early 30’s the Eighteenth Amendment was established to end the production of alcohol in the United States. This was a fourteen year long reform that caused a rise of crime and violence in America. Many passed this Amendment thinking that many would benefit from the absence of alcohol. For example The Anti-Saloon League of America. This was an organization that originated in Oberlin‚ Ohio in 1893 and believed in temperance. Their goal in the 1900s was to rid America of
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The Classical Era In the classical the style of classicism was introduced. Classicism music was a melody with a subordinate harmony to combine to be called homophony. This meant the playing of chords‚ even if they did interrupt the melodic smoothness of a single part. It became a much more prevalent part of music. This made the tonal structure of works more audible. The genres of the Classical Era consisted of symphony‚ opera‚ sonata allegro‚ sentimental style‚ style galant‚ and overture. The symphony
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The period of the 1920s was widely regarded as an era of prosperity. There was social‚ political‚ and cultural change. The city life was difficult as a farmer in the 1920s. “Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s‚ but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well”. The stock markets crashed so that led to unemployment. Which wasn’t good for the farmers at all. It wasn’t good for the farmers because without work they would go bankrupt. When they go bankrupt they wouldn’t
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On the other hand‚ critics of the era often argued that the flapper’s influence had a negative impact on shifting social norms of the 1920s because she exhibited reckless and illegal behavior during a time of rising economic inequality and debauchery. They criticized flappers for essentially “eroding the moral fabric of society” (DiPaolo). Victorian Americans believed the rebellious women misused their new sense of social freedom by mimicking the most disgraceful habits of men: including smoking
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