Decade - 1920s

The 1920's has changed America in many ways. Areas still have lasting effects on America's society. After World War I ended advertising transitioned from reform to consumerism. McClure's Magazine was a women's magazine in the 1920's. Pictures in magazines like this had a better printing quality which made them look more appealing. It advertised hosiery, makeup, and many more items to middle class women. Magazines would use clever slogans to essentially make the women of this time not feel guilty that they weren't up to par for their husbands. Tabloid papers were created. An example of this was the New York Daily News. It covered everything from crime, sports, to scandals. With new technology advertising reached millions of Americans. Movie stars and athletes were hired to persuade Americans to buy products like coffee or even tobacco. Prior to the 1920's Coca-Cola was used as a medicine. It was said to cure headaches. Coca-Cola knew it had a great taste and could be drank everyday so they pressured storekeepers to sell their product. Now Coca-Cola is one of the most popular sodas in the United States. Advertising is still a fundamental today and the 1920's was a key part of that. America's economy underwent major changes during the 1920's due to consumerism. Automotive companies employed 1 out of every twelve men in America. New technology, such as conveyor belts, made working in factories for efficient and time worthy. These conveyor belts at Ford plants cut work time from twelve and a half hours to one and a half hours to build one car. Automotive companies were also a big help for steel, glass, rubber, and gas sales. Prices for equipment and materials to make the cars continued to decrease in the 1920's and Ford cut their prices six times between 1921 and 1925. This left the price for a car at $290. This was less than three months pay for and average American. Ford also introduced a $5 minimum wage and cut the hours down from nine to eight hour a work day for his employees. If that wasn't enough Ford also cut the number of days of work from six to five days a week. The higher wage gave employees more spending money to buy more products. Some of the older generations were not happy about how easily these cars could be bought. They thought it gave teens to much freedom and privacy. The cars were referred to by the older generations as "portable bedrooms." In 1919 there were roughly 6.7 million cars in America, but by 1929 there was about 27 million. The United States spent over $2 billion a year to build and repair roads. From 1920 to 1929 483,000 miles of road was built throughout the U.S. Sadly, nearly 30,000 people died in traffic related accidents per year in the 1920's. The 1920's was a big decade for our economy it had it's great up's in the beginning, but put us on a road to failure in the late 1920's, the Great Depression. On January 16, 1920 Prohibition was put into effect. It was led by the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. These two groups believed that ending the sale of liquor would end corruption, machine politics, help labor productivity, and Americanize immigrants. They also believed that it would end spousal abuse and child abuse. The Anti-Saloon League called Milwaukee's breweries "the worst of all our German enemies." The eighteenth amendment banned the manufacture and sale of liquors. The death rate from alcoholism was cut by 80% in 1921. The Ammendment to stop alchohol use was barely approached. Too few of police officials made a good effort to stop the manufacture and consumption of alcohol. As an example, before Prohibition in 1919, Cleveland had 1,200 legal bas and in 1923 there were more than 3,000 illegal speakeasies and 10,000 stills. Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. Today alcohol has lead to more than half our nation's homicides and a portion of domestic abuse.

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Imperialist aspirations by countries that did not have large empires like Britain or France. In Germany in particular there was a general feeling amongst the population that the country had been put under a lot of undue economic pressure after the First World War, that could have been reduced if they had a larger empire. Japan and Italy also wanted larger empires. This inspired the annexation of Austria by Germany, which eventually lead to the Second World War.

They didn't make enough money to move.

the US government introduced new legislation meaning that only a certain amount of people could get in, this was mainly from Europe this meant that only 5% of people from Europe got in Successfully.

this was also because of the red scare, this was when people in the USA were scared of the spread of communism.

In the 1920s, immigration to the United States was significantly restricted through the implementation of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which established numerical limits based on national origins. This was followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, which further reduced quotas and favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe while severely limiting those from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as excluding Asian immigrants altogether. Additionally, heightened xenophobia and nativist sentiments influenced public opinion and policy, leading to a broader societal push for immigration restrictions during this period.

because they didn't allowed them to vote

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ARE YOU JUST AN IDIOT OR YOUR HATRED FOR HUMANITY OVERWHELMS YOUR MIND. G-d created this entire world what gives you the right

While Klan policies were never a strong suit they are not what really led to their decline. Opponents of the Klan simply hit them where it hurt. Sending individual Klan members to jail for their crimes didn't do anything to destroy the larger organization, so civil suits were filed against the organization. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_ku_klux_klans_policies_and_action_lead_to_rapid_decline_in_popularity_during_the_late_1920"

because many countries such as germany,spain,and italy began to lost faith in democratic

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The laws introduced a quota system.

what was the religion like in the 1920's? what was the religion like in the 1920's?

One difference is the Klan had a lot more power. They were able to lynch innocent black people or persecute Jews and Catholics, and suffer no punishment, since all-white and all Protestant juries would generally refuse to convict. Another difference is the Klan dominated local government in many southern cities. Even some judges were members. This meant that it was nearly impossible for minorities to get justice.

The Klan's membership increased dramatically in the 1920s, and there was a reason for that. It was an era of great social change, when women got the right to vote, millions of immigrants were settling here, there were new inventions (like radio), and a growing number of black people were moving north to seek a better life away from segregation. Even some southern blacks were attending colleges and trying to move up in society.

Whenever there is social change, there is also a backlash. The rise of the Klan in the 1920s was undoubtedly a reaction to the many social changes that made most southern whites (and even some northern whites) very uncomfortable. Today, segregation is no longer allowed (as it was in the 1920s), and it is doubtful judges would brag about belonging to a racist organization. In the 1920s, the Klan was powerful; today, most people do not take it very seriously. Today, most white people know and work with black people, and few if any white people want to see a return to lynching, segregation, or the glorification of racism. In the 1920s, many thought the KKK were heroic; few people feel that way today, even in the south.

The government wanted to prevent government secrets to not make the paperrs so they would accuse people of being communists and throw them in jail.

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Roaring! and quite decadent.

Following World War I people socialised more and generally let their hair down. New fashions come into being along with new dances. People were generally relaxed about most things. However booze was restricted by the introduction of the Volstead Act (Prohibition) from 1920 to 1933, which put dampers on legal drinking parties. But bootleg booze was freely made available via the underworld so that people could carry on enjoying themselves.

Buying expensive items on credit.

From the 1920s to 1930s in my opinion John Dillinger was the most notorious criminal robbing close to $300000 or hundreds of millions today.