culture of the roaring twenties

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Culture of The

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Mass-Consumption Economy United States coming off WWI in 1919. Recession

occurs from 1920-1921.-federal debt was bad due to wartime expenditures andinflation was way up to 20%. The United States will get outof debt by making cut backs and pushing the budget down.

War and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon-pushed for rapid expansion of capital investment.

Electric power became a big industry.

More industries included washing machines,refrigerators, electric irons, gas stoves, and lightbulbs

Production problems were mastered bymanufacturers. Had to deal with consumptionnow?

Advertising solved this problem.-Could be used in multiple ways for example, seduction,ploy and persuasion. Advertisers wanted to make theAmerican people want to buy more!

Bruce Barton- The Man Nobody Knows

Sports were becoming a big industry as wellex.(George Herman Babe Ruth).


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Automobile love affair

Automobiles will become the biggestinvention of the time.

Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds.

Detroit Michigan motorcar capital ofAmerica. Ex. Ford plant(Rouge River plant,Michigan.)

Ford will invent the Model T Tin Lizzie.

Was a car built for the masses. Not onlydid the rich have cars now.

Ford will cut cost on the Model T slowlyevery year.

Assembly Lines and mass productiontechniques changed the manufacturing of

cars. Ford will also higher wages for his workers.

Social isolationism will disappear.

Will be the first time Americans can travelfreely for transportation(not tied down torailways and steamboats).


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Pop Culture Film

Free enterprise aids the film industryand radio industry which helps the riseof mass consumption. Economy isgreatly boosted. Affected culture aswell.

Hollywood becomes to boom and brings

night life to the city. First Talkie The Jazz Singer (1928)

First line. You ain't heard nothing yet.

First Movie: The Birth of a Nation

Radio

Between 1923 and 1930, 60 percent of

American families purchased radios. Could listen to news, sports, and other

information on radio.

Jazz Music

Jazz music was very rebellious.

Women will rebel as well because of

movies and jazz time music.


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Age of Women Sigmund Freud and sexual repression

19th Amendment

Woman suffrage

Other Womens rights laws followed Right to hold office

Right to serve on a jury

Child labor laws

Flapper

The modern woman

Independent

Free from traditional women roles

One piece bathing suits becoming fashionable

Work place

AFL openly hostile Did not want women taking over mens jobs

Women were confined to traditional womensjobs(i.e. nursing)

Kissing equal to marriage proposal controversy.

Advertisements

Took pre WWI Feminism and claimed that there waseconomic opportunity

Decline of Womens groups

The new economy


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