Decade - 1920s

1920's

believe it or not in the 1920's the price for a brand new car right off the assembly line would cost you around 800 bucks!

For one, they were given the right to vote in the US

Between the young and the old americans ideas of tradition changed

importance of prosperity

New York Stock Exchange I believe is your answer. Lol I just found it myself for AP History workbook homework.

1929 ....Canadian woman legally declared "persons"

1920 ...league of nations formed

1920 ....food/drug act to protect can. against health hazards

1921....quaker oats intro. quick cooking oat meal

1924....popsicle patented

1929....wall street stock crash

you can't not believe in vilonce because everyone knows it is happening all over the streets every day. what you are meant to say is who thinks vilonce is wrong? or who is against vilonce which I'm against it if it isn't in self defence

chinese exclusion act of 1882

a national culture.

In 1920's the most popular car they drove was the model T also known as tin Lizzy created by ford.

Hollywood, Los Angeles

I think 1,000-2,000

The deregulation of the stock marketcaused a massive stock market crash in 1929.

13 celebrities who took it all off on screen

In the United States, disillusioned by the failure of the war to achieve the high ideals promised by President Woodrow Wilson, the American people chose isolationism and, after an initial recession enjoyed several years of unbalanced prosperity until the 1929 stock market crash.

National policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries. Isolationism has been a recurrent theme in U.S. history. It was given expression in the Farewell Address of Pres. George Washington and in the early 19th-century Monroe Doctrine. The term is most often applied to the political atmosphere in the U.S. in the 1930s. The failure of Pres. Woodrow Wilson's internationalism, liberal opposition to war as an instrument of policy, and the rigours of the Great Depression were among the reasons for Americans' reluctance to concern themselves with the growth of fascism in Europe. The Johnson Act (1934) and the Neutrality acts (1935) effectively prevented economic or military aid to any country involved in the European disputes that were to escalate into World War II. U.S. isolationism encouraged the British in their policy of appeasement and contributed to French paralysis in the face of the growing threat posed by Nazi Germany.

USA wants to become Isolated from other Countries: BUT WHY? Americans did not want more dead soldiers from wars thousands of miles away Afraid of the massive cost of wars in the future " It would be better for us if we stayed out of the problems of other countries."

What did the USA do to encourage isolationism?

1. Reject the Treaty of Versailles

2. Fordney-McCumber Tariff

3. Reduce immigration

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Reduce Immigration (Reduce no. of people moving to USA) This tariff was a tax that was placed on foreign goods. This made them more expensive and made American products more attractive to the customer. This policy worked well and helped to create the 'boom' of the 1920s. However, foreign governments retaliated by putting taxes on American goods. The USA had now isolated itself economically. There was an increasing fear of foreign people after WW1. This was due to the war, but mainly the fear that they would take American jobs (because they accepted lower wages.) Also, many feared their new political ideas (especially communism) The US government passed laws that were specifically designed to reduce immigration numbers from poorer countries.

How did the USA try to reduce immigration? People had to take a literacy test where they had to read a passage of English. This helped English speakers, but other people could not afford English lessons. Those who failed were not allowed in. The Immigration Quota Act 1921 "Only 357,000 people are allowed in every year" "Only 3% of the existing number of people who live here in the USA will be allowed in!" "This means that because there is already much more Irish people than Asian, the 3% quota will allow much more Irish in than Asian!"

RESULT The USA became isolated from other countries both economically (trade) and politically (by staying out of the affairs of other countries.) Immigration levels were reduced as the USA began to fear 'foreigners' (threat to jobs and general distrust). Their policies were designed to keep out Africans, Asians and South Americans whilst continuing to allow in White Europeans. The aim of isolationism ultimately damaged World peace as the USA failed to join the League of Nations. Many now saw the League as a 'Talking shop with no Teeth'.

Much of the work force consisted of immigrants who were willing to work in poor conditions.

because somebody invented television

The crazes in the 1920's were smoking, going to the cinema going dancing

Because people were left lobless.

Emergency Quota Law

Because quite poor people could afford them for the first time, and on the road everyone is (more or less) treated as equal.

Also, mobility itself indicates power and emancipation.

Dont post coursework questions and expect a quick answer. Do the research yourself. Go and collect your own information like we all have to.

The dilemma of American labor in the 1920s lay in the poor distribution of wealth and purchasing power, because wages rose, but many workers still lived at or below a minimum living standard

farmers and factory workers