Decade - 1920s

In the 1920's the corset was discarded and more women wore masculine clothing.

Women started to be noticd and accepted as equals but they still had a long way to go. As it was in between the wars it was a time of wealth so women's fashion industry boomed with the new look for modern age women.

Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. The most common sports are ice hockey, lacrosse, gridiron football, soccer, basketball, curling and baseball, with ice hockey and lacrosse being the official winter and summer sports, respectively.

Hockey.

Football.

Baseball.

Basketball.

Soccer.

Rugby league.

Rugby union.

Lacrosse.

There were several groups did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s. One of those groups were sharecroppers of the deep South. They were still poverty stricken.

because it symbolized a new beginning in freedom and culture. and it also gave people the idea that anything was possible. it started new business and increased jobs and economic growth. also giving Africans Americans some type of authority of who they were.

A literary and cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that featured many great African-American writers was the Harlem Renaissance. Writes such as Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes, and W. E. B. DuBois came from this movement.

Scientists like Hughes and Tesla were still experimenting around with the new invention, radio. In the late 1800's, they were transmitting, or attempting to, signals to other places to see if that place can hear their signal. So I would say radio in the late 1800's was not what we think of radio today, or even in the mid-1900's with radio shows, music, spots, etc.

There were many great composers who lived in the 1920ès. George Gerswin and Duke Ellington were two very important American composers from the 1920's.

The cost of a movie ticket in the year 1928 was 25 cents. The average cost of a movie ticket in 2014 is between 7 and 8 dollars.

People in the 1920s listened to music on the radio and danced to it. They had Dance Marathons every weekend. Dance was very popular Some dances include: the Charleston, fox-trot, shimmy, waltz and tango.

They were usually "candle stick"-like with a speaker for talking in on the top of the candlestick base and an sound attachment for hearing connected to the bottom base by a cord for hearing.

There were several popular motion picture actors in the 1920s. The list included Gary Cooper, Charlie Chaplin, John Barrymore, Buster Keaton, and Rudolph Valentino. Actresses included Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, Claudette Colbert, and Joan Crawford.

they were just like they were today except they were much much less fat

On TV, you'll find some stuff late on nick@nite and teen nick. Not a whole lot though. Best place online would be amazon instant video.

DVDs

Radio had a very important effect-- it brought sports directly into people's homes. Before radio, you either waited for the newspaper to come out, with a report of the game; or you had to go to the game itself (which excluded poor people who could not afford tickets; and in some cities, it excluded black people who were not allowed in a segregated venue). Radio was somewhat of an equalizer-- now anyone could hear the game, in real-time, as it was happening. It no longer mattered what your race or social status was.

Because more people could hear the games, sports also became more popular as a topic of conversation. Talk shows were not technologically possible yet, but a larger number of people now had access to sports, and it enhanced the experience of being a fan; people gathered to listen to a game together, and then they talked about the results. Also, radio allowed fans to hear the voices of their heroes for the first time. A number of big sports stars, including Babe Ruth, were interviewed and the public really enjoyed it, even if just like today, the athletes did not have a lot to say that was new or interesting. Just hearing their voices made the fans feel closer to their favorites (this would, years later, be further enhanced by television, which would enable fans to both see and hear the star athletes).

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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.