Chapter 22 The Roaring TwentiesHeather Anderson

SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE AFTERMATH OF WAR

The end of World War 1 After a famous song with the phrase

“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?”

People had the desire to travel. With the availability of jobs & more

transportation, almost 15 million people became American urbanites. 1920 -1930

Con….

End of WW1 urban population went from 2,500 people to over 50 million

according to the 1920 census 50% of people lived in urban cities

Leading to cities were southern African Americans, especially to New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles

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Con………..

Prohibition KKK(Ku Klux Klan) by 1924, they

organized the anti-African American, anti-Jewish, and anti-Roman Catholic persecutions had become a national scandal

But the future was bright with an air of grandeur

New Goods and the Rise of the Middle Class

Modern living included; mass production, mass marking, and spectacular advances in the production of consumer durables, electric power, new appliances, suburban housing, and the city skyscrapers highlighted the decade.

Con…….

1920’s little more then 1/3 of American Families had electricity and Automobiles were a play toy

1930’s little under 1/3 lack electricity and automobiles became a necessity for the middle class

The Automobile

The symbol of the 1920’s 1.5 million car in 1921 to 4.8 million in

1929 By 1930’s 60% of America’s families

owned an automobiles One of the problems was the increase in

travel which then motels , hot dog stands, road signs, and gas stations popped up.

Which didn’t help get out of the depression of the 1930’s

Con

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Federal Aid Road Act of 1916; nationwide highway system $75 million over a 5 year plan

Federal Highway Act of 1921; amends the original law. The design the “primary” roads but it cost 75 million per year not over 5 like the act of 1916

Buy Now, Pay Later

This where credit really came the U.S. and where modern “debt” was inspired

Loans would be what we call them we take out money that we don’t have and we pay it back over time with interest.

Pro

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ition

FAILED! But to strengthen the law was the

Volstead Act 1919, in the 1920 18 amendment was ratified

The 1920’s is where the Mafia’s came really known in our culture