Decade - 1920s

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 ...

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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.

There was a huge panic of how U.S was going to succeed the in the future as the Great Depression rolled in. Tensions rise as people panic to what they thought would fix the economy. Also about old vs new, America had just fought WW1 where they were able to experience new social life. These life styles were brought back to the U.S where already there was a huge sense of isolation vs change. People felt that change was something that would destroy their previous lifestyle.

Europe was recovering from the destruction of World War I.

One major demographic shift of the 1920's was the movement of immigrants from places like Ellis Island to New York City. New York City at this time was a very crowded place with very little employment available.

In New York City, immigrants often spent the day of rest enjoying the caf�s, clubs, and music halls that city law had recently allowed open on Sunday. The city was filled with immigrants and laborers, as factory work was especially appealing when the industrial revolution took hold.

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It should be mentioned that New York was FAR more violent than it is today. Large gangs of immigrants roved the streets of the waterfront and five points sections murdering and robbing any ritch person who dared cross their path. Prostitution as well as gambling abouded, and houses for these catered to both extremeley poor and extremeley ritch clientelle. The police faught gangs on a normal basis, riots occurred frequently- some of which requiring the national guard and in one instance in 65' the union army to suppress.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK for short) has experienced many rises and falls, many victories and defeats throughout their history. The KKK (referred to as the Klan) was founded in the year 1865 in Tennessee by 6 former confederate officers in their collegiate years. The group began as a harmless prank with the men riding around at night on horses disturbing the peace. Little did they know that they were scaring former slaves and foreigners in the town. They quickly used this to their advantage to spread fear throughout the town. Their goal was to create a fraternal organization that resembled the romantic image of the original Ku Klux Klan. It was an ironic beginning for a group that soon became responsible for many violent hate crimes against many ethnic groups.

The Klan didn't actually form in the strictest sense until about April of 1867 when they began recruiting and accepting new members. Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first leader of the Klan. The group kept building and regenerating until about 1915 when the new 'generation' of the Klan formed. This new generation was lead by the failed minister William Joseph Simmons. During the 1920s the Klan grew from 5,000 to 40,000 members in just a year. In 1924 the Klan peaked at a staggering 100,000 members and their climax was when about 40,000 Klan members paraded through Washington, DC. Analysts have tried to determine the cause of this increase of the KKK during this time period. Most agree that the increase in immigrants was the root of the cause. Another would be the post-war era that was settling in America and that Americans were beginning to 'pick up' after World War I. The average KKK member was a working class Anglo Saxon American. During the 1920s the members of the KKK believed they had to compete for jobs in the United States with immigrants.

Immigrants weren't always the sole focus of the Klan. Other people specifically targeted were: African Americans, Jews, Catholics, anti - prohibitionists, drug dealers, and other less known groups. As you can see the Klan did not limit themselves to just one group to discriminate against. This is partly due to the fact that there were different sections of the Klan, or subdivisions if you will. These so-called subdivisions included: the Imperial Klans of KKK in Powderly, Kentucky, the American Knights of the KKK in Butler, Indiana, the Knights of the KKK in Jasper Texas. Each subdivision tried to make themselves the more prominent division. They did this through violent hate crimes that killed thousands of Americans and ruined the lives of many more.

The KKK was a very strong supporter of National Prohibition, which it sometimes defended violently.

A flapper was a dancer in the 1920's in the United States. She would most likely dance.

wear short skirts

Dance the Charleston & wear flapper style clothes.