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Social. Ciara Garchow Cristina Gomez Erica King Becca Williams. WORLD EVENTS INFLUENCE SOCIETY. 1920s came to be known as a socially and politically conservative time. (Even though suffrage and prohibition were passed during this decade)
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Social Ciara Garchow Cristina Gomez Erica King Becca Williams
WORLD EVENTS INFLUENCE SOCIETY • 1920s came to be known as a socially and politically conservative time. (Even though suffrage and prohibition were passed during this decade) • Racial tensions intensified- due to the popularity of organizations like the Klu Klux Klan. (membership rose to approx. 3 million members) • Increase in car ownership. Petroleum industry had a 500% increase of gasoline consumption.
SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENT • Motion Pictures • Ticket sales increased from $301 million in 1921 to $720 million in 1929. • Radio • Spectator sports • Attendance of major league games to witness Babe Ruth hit one of his 60 record home runs in 1927
Women won right to vote- August of 1920 (this affected the roles of women in society) • Wages for both genders increased, this allowed families to buy consumer goods in time payments. • Everyone wanted The American Dream it is why people worked for nicer things and made people feel equal, like everyone could have the dream. • Before the 1920s, expensive items (cars, vacuum cleaners, washing machines) were thing only the wealthy could afford to buy. W O M E N I N S O C I E T Y
FASHION • Flapper Fashion. (short sleek hair, short shapeless dress, flat chest, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked using a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs, and had the attitude of a reckless rebel) • Skirts only revealed the knees between 1926 and 1928. • Feminine clothing became looser and more shapeless. • Narrow boyish hips were preferred. • Increased use of make up and increasing popularity of applying it in public.
EFFECTSOFWAR • Young adults were made old. • Men had seen the realities of trench warfare. • Women had seen horrific injuries and mental suffering. • Out of war came medical progress (cosmetic and plastic surgery). • Feeling that life is short and should be enjoyed. • Broke down longstanding class barriers.
CHANGE • Mass production and mass advertising. • People were encouraged to read and self improve. • Wireless and gramophone soon reached ordinary households. • Own judgments were made. Listened to music, entertainment, news, and current affairs. • Crystal radio.
PARTYING DECADE • 18th amendment- alcohol illegal. • Bootleggers- sold illegal alcohol. • Speakeasies- places where people could go to drink and have a good time. • More people were drinking because of the amendment. • More people were getting arrested or killed because they had hid their liquor.
FEMISNISM • Feminism—the belief in the full economic, political, and social equality of males and females—is usually seen as a modern movement to transform the male-dominant past and create an egalitarian future. • Feminism is history and a memory.
RED SCARE • Paranoid about communism. • Certain minorities were targeted because of speech or associations. • Summer of 1920 people were temporarily free from burden. • Focus for this decade was living life to its fullest.
Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU
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