Decade - 1920s

The federal government lowered income tax rates in the 1920's. The federal government also prohibited the sale of alcohol, thus eliminating a source of taxes.

In the 1920's you could by a stamp for 1-3 cents a stamp.

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the radio.

The hair dryer, yoyo's, traffic lights! The band aids. One of the most popular snacks around this time was the peanut butter and jelly sandwish.

It usually cost about $5.00 or maybe a little less.

The right to vote and participate in government

It meant glasses

During the 1920s, new technologies helped create mass culture,and to connect people around the world. The two symbols were Jazz and the liberated woman called Flapper.

It is said that it is also called "The Happy Twenties". This is when the continents aré having a happy time.

The 1920's were golden because everything was going well. WWI had just ended, factories were retooling for consumer goods (like cars), people were into having fun. This was all before the Great Depression, which started in 1929.

The NAACP began placing advertisements in newspapers that presented the harsh facts about the large number of lynchings taking place across the South. Minorites also thought that if they expressed their culture they would not be looked down upon.

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There is James Birdseye McPherson Elementary School in Chicago.

First of all, a change in women was that the flapper was created. Flappers were women started loosening up by wearing shorter skirts, above or just below the knees. They bobbed their hair and cut it much, much shorter, and often put something in it like a feather, headbands, or barrettes. They wore much more makeup. They took on jobs that were mostly for men. They broke lots of rules that were okay for men but not for women, and they started smoking and drinking. A new law was finally created where women could vote.

More crops grown then sold.

the spread of mass-production techniques

the establishment of cooperatives owned and operated by workers and consumers

automobile

The automobile assembly line and readily available credit for buying automobiles

When the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer.

In 1919, Women in the United States gained the right to vote and were liberated from many previous restrictions of the past. Before the 1920s, women wore plain floor length dresses with tight corsets and had very long hair. A fashion revolution occurred in the 1920s. Women wore knee length dresses, bobbed their hair and pile themselves with accessories such as long pearl necklaces, gloves and headbands. Fur, sequins, fringe, diamonds and feathers were abundant in fashion. The glamorous fashion reflected the booming economy also known as "the roaring twenties". Drop waisted dress were common as were cloche hats and kitten heels. Fashion changed in the 1920s to accommodate the new lifestyles of people who now went out dancing every weekend. Fashion needed to be easy to move in but still look good.

The two nations that competed for industrial dominance in Europe was Germany and Great Britain.

Poor policy making by the American Federal Reserve System and continuous crisis in the banking system allowed the money supply as measured by the M2 to shrink by one-third from 1929 to 1933. Public bank failures, particularly the Bank of the United States, produced panic and widespread withdrawals of funds from banks. This caused many more banks to fail and have to close their doors. This caused a downward spiral among bussinessmen. There was no way for them to get new loans, and no way to renew the loans they already had, so they stopped investing which caused more banks to go belly up.

because they dint have enough money to give to people