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Decade - 1920s
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What best describes woman's participation in the labor force at the end of the 1920s?
For the most part, women remained concentrated in traditional service occupations.
What were some restaurants in Indianapolis in the 1920s?
Othere than The Slippery Noodle and St. Elmo's?
Why was the u.s. economy so important to the world economy in the 1920s?
Why was the U.S. economy so important to the world economy in the 1920s? U.S. factories produced half of the world's industrial goods. The United States owed money to other countries at that time. U.S. citizens imported more goods than any other country. The United States was owed money by other countries.
Why are 1920s considered the roaring 20's?
By 1921, the United States was in the depths of a depression with an unemployment rate hovering at 20% and runaway inflation. This came to an end with the beginning of the newly elected President Warren Harding. He passed away while in office and Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President. During their administrations, most Americans were enjoying a high standard of living. Food was plentiful and cheap thanks to the vast quantity produced on American farms. More and more people bought their own homes through mortgages. They filled them with all kinds of consumer goods and parked their new cars in the garage. But the "Roaring Twenties" was also the great age of popular entertainment. In the theatres and "speakeasies" (secret, illegal bars) , people were entertained by "vaudeville" acts (music hall) , singers and jazz and dance bands. The period is often called the "Jazz Age." Radio stations mushroomed all over America, the programmes being paid for from advertising. But above all it was the age of the cinema. (By the end of the 1920s 100 million cinema tickets were sold each week.) Thousands of black and white silent films were made in America in the 1920s, especially in Hollywood, which became the capital of the industry. Actors and actresses like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Rudolf Valentino became "stars" and were known all over the world. By the end of the 1920s sound and color had been successfully added on a small scale. In 1927 the first "talkie" was made called "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson. Many people had enough spare cash to invest in the stock market. They often made a lot more money, as the industry's profits went up, so did the price of shares. This is called speculation and an increasing number of people tried it, often using borrowed money. The result was the price of shares eventually began to fall and then collapsed, leaving many bankrupt. Harding, Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover never believed in governmental controls. Therefore, in 1929 the Stock Markets crashed which marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
There is also a conflict of social attitudes. With women, the passing of the 19th amendment giving the women to vote led to a movement of women called "flappers." They were women who wore shorter dresses, used a lot of cosmetics and never followed the traditional mores of society. A sexual revolution took place as it did in the 1960's especially the rise and tolerance of homosexuality. They hung out in ballrooms and inventing new dances that went with the times like the "Charleston" and the "Lindy." Novels expressing explicit sex was also popular. In urban areas of the country, there was more tolerance of the minorities never seen in the country before. The other side of the story are the religious traditionalists who made selling alcoholic beverages illegal (prohibition) with the passing of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. With this, we begin the next decade with illegal "rum running" and the rise of the mob.
Why did the congress pass the emergency quota act in the 1920s?
In the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, Congress passed a new type of immigration law limiting the number of immigrants entering the United States in any one year to 3 percent of the size of each nationality group that had been living in the United States in 1910. This policy favored the older Anglo-Saxon and northern European stock, who were more numerous than immigrants from southern and eastern Europe in that year.
The quota system drastically limited immigration from eastern and southern Europe, which had been running four times as large as that from the rest of Europe.
Many Americans were unhappy with the Immigration Act of 1921 because they felt that it still admitted too many of the "wrong" kinds of foreigners. To some extent, this attitude was a product of the times. The most extreme position was taken by the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan was anti-black, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish--against everybody not white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant.
The vast majority of Americans had little interest in the KKK. Yet at the same time many felt some of the same feeling--concern about radical political ideas, the impact of Catholics and Jews on American society, and the "race degradation" of the American "stock" that supposedly was due to the influx of inferior Southern and Eastern Europeans. Many believed that too many foreigners would upset the "racial" balance of America and that immigration had gone far enough.
What was a major resultof prohibition in the US during the 1920s?
A major result of prohibition during the 20s was an increase in gang activity.
Why did mill owners move there factories to the south in the 1920's?
Mill owners moved their factories to the South in the 1920s due to available labor. During the same period, a lot of blacks were migrating North in search of work.
How did Fiorella la Guardia behave differently from the other political ffigures in the 1920's?
He unified the transit system, directed the building of low-cost public housing, public playgrounds, and parks, constructed airports, reorganized the police force, defeated the powerful Tammany Hall political machine, and reestablished merit employment in place of patronage jobs.
What kind of attitudes did the people have in the 1920s?
teens were changing their styles and looks the girls were called flappers and the guys sheiks.
What are some descriptions of the treatment and punishment of offenders in the 1920s?
what is the description of treatment and punishment in 1990
Did people have wax in the 1920s?
If you are asking if they had ear wax, yes. People have always had ear wax.
If you are asking if they had candle wax, yes. People (humans) have been enjoying wax since the 4th century.
What did overproduction during the 1920's ultimately result in?
it ended in all the companies crashing and people ended up having no money :L x
What were some of the struggles faced by American farmers during the 1920s?
Failing crop prices and large amounts of debt
