Decade - 1920s

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The start of the decade came with a new way of buying luxuries, what we call today credit. Back then there was no government controlled credit so you basically walk in to store talk to the store owner about what you want to buy using credit and you will arrange something with store owner. There were no credit cards at the time so each store you used a credit, you placed a tab, and if you didn't pay within a certain deadline creditors would come and reclaim your possessions

Widespread intolerance did exist in America during the 1920s on many different levels: politically, socially and culturally. To begin with, immigration in the 1920s started to become an increasingly worrying problem for the American government. The USA claimed it was the "melting pot" of all nationalities where all people were to become one people, "The American" although this was quite the opposite when immigrants arrived en masse. Many of these people were unemployed and unskilled, subject to poverty and falling into the lower classes of America's capitalist society. They were treated unfairly with appalling working and living conditions and, although they may have escaped persecution or extreme poverty elsewhere, the prospects of becoming successful and prospering (as the American dream had so claimed) were quite distant. It was soon apparent that Americans began to fear the immigration system where hundreds of thousands of people arrived in the USA, refusing to swear an oath to the constitution which brought about anarchism and communism. America dived into the Red Scare, fearing that thousands of communists were roaming the streets hoping for another revolution - similar to the Bolshevik Revoultion in Russia of 1917 - causing mass intolerance of the immigration system that remained existent. The government had to act proficiently which subsequently led to Congress passing Quota Acts which immediately restricted the number of immigrants entering the USA. One example of intolerance would be the Palmer Raids where a military chief was threatened with radical terror which resulted in the official deporting at least one thousands suspected anarchists or criminals to the State. It was clear during the 1920s that immigration was becoming a major problem for the government, which led to high federal government expenditure on state schemes to provide work and health benefits to the thousands of immigrants existent in America's main cities. ---- "As wartime fears ran high, anti-immigration sentiment took the form of demands for 100% Americanism which called for restrictive immigration laws, and antagonism towards German-Americans and immigrant groups suspected of sympathising with the enemy." ---- Intolerance to the Black Americans was a huge problem that too existed in Amercian society especially during the 1920s. In the South millions of Black farmers that struggled to earn a living and survive amongst the poverty cycle were subject to discrimination and extreme racism. The Jim Crow laws stated that all Blacks would be segregated among Whites. Benches, toilets, hospitals, schools, buses, parks and other public buildings were divided to separate the Black culture from the "Americans." There was also extreme aggression against the Black Americans too and one of them took the form of lynching, which was common in the southern states of America. Lynching is an untrialled hanging which was of course illegal - government could not enforce these laws without risk of losing support from Senators from the southern state. The Klu Klux Klan, a notorious White racial group that exercised violence and discriminatory prejudice against the Black population, gained millions of supporters before, during and after the 1920s. The KKK fought to preserve "Americanism" and to maintain White supremacy throughout its campaign. The racial group became stronger during this time period as many Whites began to fear the growing power and influence Black Americans started to acquire; the KKK fearing one aspect of economic insecurity. This caused the KKK to instil hatred against the "un-American" people, mainly the Blacks who continued to receive poor education and work in agriculture for a bare minimum wage. In the northern States, Black workers found employment in factories, residing in terrible accommodation, although following the end of WWI thousands of White workers protested that their jobs were subsided to a second class. Black communities continued to suffer discrimination and segregation - denied working opportunities and, at the time, mistreated as second class citizens losing the right to vote in particular southern states. The government turned a blind eye to such activities fearing the loss of valuable support from Senators of the South, whom many partook in the KKK and prejudice groups. It was a time of racial conflict and intolerance between both black and white people that attracted considerable tension and prejudice against the Blacks to preserve "Americanism" suppressing the minorities under the superiority of the White ruling government.

The similarities are striking according to Bernard C. Beaudreau, professor of economics at Université Laval and author of "How the Republicans Engineered the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Financial Meltdown of 2008." He argues that both were the result of unsutainable policy measures aimed at propping up aggregate demand - the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill in 1929 and financial deregulation (increasing household debt) in 2008. When it became obvious that both would fail, financial markets plunged. He points out a little known fact, namely that on the day of the first stock market crash in October 1929, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill suffered its worst day ever in Congress.

The upshot of his work is that financial markets are not to blame, rather poorly thought-out government policy is!

Segregation of the races was still legal in many Southern States, as a result of the Supreme Court decision known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), which allowed "separate but equal" public facilities for Black and White. DeFacto segregation (separation of races by "fact" not by "law") existed in the North during the years of the Depression.

1 pound of gold costs 26,400$ for 2012.

The 19th ammendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.

The major economic trend of the 1920s that helped caused the Great Depression was likely the unequal distribution of wealth. Another factor was over speculation in the stock market.

Conservatives were threatened by changes in society and its moral standards.

Public reaction to the many strike that occurred during the year 1919, revealed a deep hostility in the American public for immigrants and immigration. The best example of this feeling was the “Red Scare” of 1919. In reaction to the creation of the Communist International Organization, and bombs found in the US Post Office addressed to prominent American figures, the Attroney-General, A. Mitchell Palmer conducted raids on suspected Communist headquarters and in the process, deported or imprisoned many persons simply because they were immigrants and suspected Communists. The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was another example of anti-immigrant feelings in the country. In 1921, Congress enacted a law limiting annual immigration to the US to 350,000 people per year. Each year, European nations could send to the US a number equal to 3 percent of its nationals who were in the US in the year 1910. In 1924, Congress amended the immigration law and reduced the number of immigrants to 150,000, and the quota to 2 percent, and the base year to 1890. This law favored immigration from nations like Great Britain, but discriminated against central and eastern European nations like Poland, Russia and Syria.

Women have different definitions for what is and is not beautiful. During the 19th century, there weren't a lot of different looks and styles to choose from. There were only a few styles and it seemed as if people felt that their style was all the only style.

Beauty is not an easy thing to describe. Beauty is an idea. Beauty is something that someone is fond of. Beauty is something that the person finds to be pleasant to the eye. The most important concept about beauty is that it is in the eye of the beholder. There are over 6 billion people on this planet. Each person is unique; therefore, the term beautiful is going to have many different meanings. For instance, the Mona Lisa painting is considered to be a great work of art to some and to others it is simply a picture of an average looking women. This paper will discuss the 19th century's version of beauty and compare and contrast it to today's society's view.

The 19th century culture was very different than today. It seemed as if people were considered credible little education. People thought what researchers said about women, was the gospel. Men were considered superior to women. To keep this theory alive, men tried their best to find ways to keep women inferior to them. Sadly, the notion that women were lesser beings than men was widely practiced during the 19th century. Some men did not feel this way during that time, but many did.

In contemporary society it is safe to say that women are different than they were in the 19th century. Change has occurred but maybe not for the better. People generally have mixed opinions when it comes to the progress of women's beauty over the years. In contemporary society, the notion of what makes women beautiful is also different. This is the typical thought process for women in our society today. Women feel as if beauty is only what is on the outside. Women become obsessed with their image and do everything they can to make it "perfect." The sad thing is many women don't know when to stop. Most women who have one operation are more prone to do another. Some women get operations because they don't feel that they are beautiful. Women should feel beautiful the way they are. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and people will like you if you are a good person.

It doesn't help that the media gives all the publicity to women who are extremely beautiful on the outside. Women have to become almost anorexic to get acting roles in films. Gwen Stefani was quoted saying, "Yea, I look good. But I am always hungry." This shows that even women, who are models for everyone else, aren't necessarily happy with the way they look. If looking good means that you cannot eat something you want, then maybe it's not worth it. America is about freedom of choice. So why do so many women become prisoners of their own body? Women are taught that beauty or being beautiful will get them far in life. With that, sometimes women deem it necessary to go to great lengths to make sure their image is preserved. When women start starving themselves many bad things can arise. All of these traits can be acquired and are not healthy for a young women's health.

Things have definitely changed since the 19th century. Some for the better, some for the worse. I cannot figure out which are better and which are the worst. Everyone always says change is good. However, when a woman goes to such extremes to stay "beautiful", that is the worst.

== == It's the same as the 'Roaring Twenties': a time of great social change and upheaval in the U.S. It gets its name from F Scott Fitzgerald (who wrote the Great Gatsby) and from jazz music, both which were becoming quite popular during that time.

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Superficial prosperity was caused by banks giving out loans to people who appeared to be prosperous but werenâ??t. As a result, people took out loans to buy things they couldnâ??t afford to have or pay for. Much of the so-called prosperity was based on an allusion.

Can someone please list some famous Australians from the early 1900's- they have to have been alive before 1920

1. It raised taxes and spending. Many free market supporters thought this was a terrible idea during a depression. 2. Hoover had already experimented with these policies between 1929-1933, and they caused no improvement in the economy. In fact, unemployment went up and GDP shrank during those years. 3. Some feared a more powerful Federal Government and Presidency,

In 1915, William Simmons founded the twentieth-century version of the KKK after viewing the film, Birth of a Nation, which glorified the history of the Klan. The new Klan was not only anti black, but anti Jewish, anti foreign, and anti-Catholic. The Klan actually became a respected part of the Democratic Party and reached its peak of political power in the 1920s, when membership may have been as high as 4.5 million, including many prominent business and political leaders. The Klan declined in power when the Grand Dragon, was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of a young women whom he had taken to Chicago with him. In an attempt to lessen his sentence, Grand Dragon David Stephenson turned over evidence to the government revealing the corruption of the Klan, the names of politicians the Klan had bribed, and other illegal activities of the organization.

In the 1920's, credit enabled consumers to boost corporate profits to new levels. But, when the stock market crashed, credit forced consumers into poverty. As a result, businesses who relied on credit failed.

The automobile had an important impact on American lives. It changed the landscape of America. Its biggest effect was the construction of paved roads for all weather. Houses often had driveways with the invention of automobiles. The automobile caused fast construction of gas stations.

That depends on where you were. The country was still segregated (African-Americans were then called either "Negroes" or "colored people"), and black people living in the south (especially in rural areas) often had no electricity, were denied the right to vote, and attended one-room schoolhouses, using old books discarded by the white schools. In some cities, black males were automatically suspects in any crimes, and some were even lynched without so much as a trial.

But on the other hand, the 1920s was the era of the Harlem Renaissance, when black authors, poets, painters, playwrights, actors and musicians gained wider exposure. Some of this occurred thanks to the arrival of the new mass medium of radio, which brought the talents of black entertainers to a national audience, and also provided an opportunity for black educators and advocates to give talks heard by thousands of people.

Black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier also provided a voice for black people, protesting against the unfairness of segregation and promoting the achievements of the black community. But unfortunately, in a segregated society, white readers were mainly exposed to stories of black criminals; the mainstream (white) newspapers often ignored the positive accomplishments of black citizens, and white readers were left unaware that in the 1920s, there were black scholars, doctors, lawyers and inventors.

Racism and stereotyping of blacks permeated American life, and although some white people challenged it, all too many were very comfortable using racial slurs-- even radio stations and newspapers at times made use of what today is called the "N-word." But on the other hand, as more Americans began to attend college, they were exposed to new ways of thinking. And while large numbers of black Americans were still facing discrimination and living in poverty, the story was not the same in every city. In fact, in many places, there were definite signs of progress, as a growing number of black Americans were graduating from universities, entering the professions, and creating a new middle and upper-middle class.

There is a tendency, especially in popular history in the U.S. and Western Europe, to assume that throughout the Weimar period Germany was seething with nationalist discontent and straining at the leash to fight World War 1 again. This caricature is very misleading. In the 1920s the new republic did, on balance, enjoy support - though often of a passive kind. It was only when Germany was hit by the effects of the Great Depression (late 1929 onwards) that the country started to seethe. The main grievance for most voters wasn't Versailles, but the economy. Hitler succeeded in presenting himself as a man with mission ...

industrialization

The struggle of the German people to make reparation payments for war damages inflicted on the Allies.

In 1921, Congress enacted a law limiting annual immigration to the US to 350,000 people per year. Each year, European nations could send to the US a number equal to 3 percent of its nationals who were in the US in the year 1910. In 1924, Congress amended the immigration law and reduced the number of immigrants to 150,000, and the quota to 2 percent, and the base year to 1890. This law favored immigration from nations like Great Britain, but discriminated against central and eastern European nations like Poland, Russia and Syria.