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Decade - 1920s
This category has questions involving events, social trends, political beliefs, major discoveries, or general information related to the 1920s.
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Was there indoor toilets in the 1920s?
Absolutely. Indoor toilets - and even flushing toilets - existed since about 1600, and the present-day model was already patented in 1852. Not by Thomas Crapper by the way, although his name is immortalized in toilet-related expressions.
The outdoor toilet remained a fixture of rural areas until well into the 20th century, but that had mostly to do with the absence of waterworks and sewerage services in these areas.
Which 1929 design was inspired by ancient Egyptian folding chairs?
Mies Van der Rohe and Lilly Reich's Barcelona Chair displayed in the Barcelona Pavillion at the International Exposition.
Which of these is the most widely used statistical report for comparing economic trends?
Consumer price index
Men were able to vote in the 1920s as long as they were older than 21. Women could vote if they were over 30, a law passed by the British Parliamant, the law was changed that women could vote at the age of 21 in 1928.
African Americans could not vote until The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The female flapper of the 1920 was more image than reality?
Yes, the female flapper of the 1920s was more image than reality.
Which grew significantly during the 1920s?
Cars; the movie industry; electric utilities; radio industry.
Yes.
How did what happen to farmers during the 1920s foreshadow events of the great depression?
the dust bowl and they were not able to purchase their share in americas output.
What were the reasons for high tariffs in the 1920s?
If your asking why America made tariffs, then i think it was that America didn't want a whole lot of foreigners selling things in the U.S. and putting Americans out of their jobs. The tariffs made it so less people from other countries could impact the economy, then also the Americans would have more job opportunities.
Most colorful presidential candidate of 1920s?
There is an argument for Alfred E. Smith, the Democrat who was elected governor of New York four times, but lost the 1928 presidential election in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover. He also was the first Roman Catholic to win a presidential nomination.
Known as "The Happy Warrior," Smith was a progressive governor who sought to make government as efficient as possible. He sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1924 (he was nominated at the party's convention by a rising politician named Franklin Delano Roosevelt). But Smith lost the nomination to former congressman and diplomat John W. Davis, who went on to be defeated by incumbent Republican president Calvin Coolidge.
Smith tried again for the Democratic nomination four years later and succeeded. Unfortunately for him, the tides of political fortune were against him. For one thing, the country had enjoyed years of prosperity under post-World War I Republican administrations. For another, Smith was against Prohibition, the Constitutional amendment that banned the sale and distribution of alcohol in the United States.
Then there was the matter of his Catholicism at a time when many parts of the country were anti-Catholic. Many voters feared that a Catholic president might be controlled or heavily influenced by the Vatican. As it happened, no Catholic would win a presidential nomination for another 32 years, when U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts became the 1960 Democratic nominee and eventual winner of the presidency.
Smith also railed against lynching and racial violence during a time when some sections of the country were beset by Ku Klux Klan activity.
Although he drew large crowds during the campaign, Smith was roundly defeated in the presidential election on Nov. 6, 1928. Hoover, Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce, won 444 electoral votes and carried 40 states. Smith captured 87 electoral votes and carried only Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the North, and Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina in the South. He failed to win his own state by 103,000 votes.
After his defeat, Smith entered the private sector and became instrumental in the construction of the Empire State Building during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
He died on Oct. 4, 1944.
What happenened to farmers during the 1920s?
The Farmers caried on farming like they did before planting crops and then harvesting them. They also went into a lot of debt because they were still producing a lot of crops like they had been in WWI. This caused the price for these goods to go down, and many farmers had to go into debt. Then many of them would be kicked off their land because they couldn't pay their debt or the banks they were in debt to went bankrupt.
Mk14 torpedoes and the Torpedo Data Computer (TDC)
What developments of the 1920's decreased regional and cultural differences in America?
The founding of national radio networks like NBC
Chaperon.
What is the average income in the 1920s?
$850 for farm work
$1200 for male manual labor
$1000 for female office work
$1500 for male office work
