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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s are seen as a time when the “New Woman” was coming into existence. Historians say that the women of the 1920s were willing and able to do things that they had not previously been allowed...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Technology affected American lifestyles in two main ways. First, it gave Americans more leisure time. By the 1920s, there were many more labor saving devices, particularly ones that reduced the...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
During the 1920s the increasing availability of electricity (especially in cities) changed the ways in which people lived their everyday lives. In general, it gave them more time to have fun and...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The major impact of radio on the economy was that it brought advertising into American homes. In a time before television, the radio was the greatest invention prior to the advent of the internet....
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The main reason why farmers did not prosper in the 1920s had to do with the international economy. In the 1910s, WWI caused declines in farm production around the world, but not in the US. This...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I'm a bit unclear about your question. Do you mean, "What kind of influence did the movies MAKE in the 1920's?" If this is your question, the movies of the 1920's served two main purposes. First...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The radio and the movies were two of the major factors that helped to make the 1920s a time when people had a lot more choices for how to entertain themselves. As people came to have more...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Working conditions in the early part of the 20th century were dirty, crowded, and dangerous. Factory jobs were booming, and more families were moving to the cities to find opportunities. Also...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The best way to put this is that the 1920s were a time when people stopped being idealistic and started being much more interested in hedonistic things -- in having fun and in getting ahead...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s are seen as the “Roaring ‘20s” or the “Jazz Age.” The decade has been given these nicknames because it was a time when many Americans started to have more leisure and fun in their lives....
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
In regard to the aftermath of the First World War, 1919 was the year of the Paris Peace Conference. This conference, which included Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
When automobiles first came to be manufactured on a large scale, they destroyed some jobs, but created many others. On the whole, they led to the creation of more jobs than they destroyed. Think...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The introduction of the automobile marked one of the great sea changes in American history. The automobile allowed for increased mobility, meaning that people could live a distance away from where...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I would say that the Americans who gained the most from the economic prosperity of the 1920s were those who had the most resources. By that, I mean that people who were already pretty well off...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The only possible answer to this question is A. First, you should note that A and B directly contradict one another. It is important to notice this sort of thing as a test-taking strategy. This...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Immigration to the US reached its peak between 1880 and 1920. Most of the immigrants were from Europe and brought their own traditions with them, including alcohol production and consumption....
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The policies of the 1920s were an almost complete repudiation of the progressivism of the preceding decades. The only things that can really be seen as somewhat progressive during this time were...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The first answer lays out some of Freud's ideas quite nicely but does not say anything about how he impacted America in the 1920s. I would argue that most of Freud's impact came from his ideas...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Right after World War I, the US economy went into a bit of a recession. This was largely because of the fact that the war had ended. So the result, I'd say, was the recession. As you mention, the...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I do not know that you can say that music affected Americans in the 1920s any differently than it affects people in any time or place. I would say that America's music of the 1920s was a...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
In the early 20's there was a record number of schools. It was the era of the one room school house. Towards the end of the decade consolidation was the norm and many of the one room school houses...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
For the most part, the radio is not used as a political instrument of the decade. The technology was so new that it was more consumer based and for more commercial uses, such as listening to music...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The beginning of the decade of the 1920's was certainly one of jubilation and hope as the end of World War I in 1918 brought peace and optimism, and, later, prosperity, but there was also the...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The increasing popularity of the automobile contributed to economic growth both directly and indirectly in the 1920s. During the 1920s, people bought large numbers of cars as cars become more...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The automobile was important to the history of the Roaring ‘20s for at least two reasons. One of these reasons was economic while the other had to do with culture and society. Economically, the...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Overall, the term “Roaring 20s” is a very appropriate term for US society as a whole. However, it is more apt for Americans living in cities than for those living in smaller towns or rural areas....
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The prosperity that the US experienced after World War II changed the lives of ordinary Americans by making them much more comfortable than they ever had been before. It created more leisure time,...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The Americans who gained the most during the 1920s were those who already had some money. The gains in wealth that came about as stock prices went up, for example, went mainly to those rich...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The thing that was most important about electricity in the 1920s was its ability to transform the lives of the people who were able to get it. During this decade, electric power became very common...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I am assuming that you are asking about the three Republican presidents of the 1920s. I have edited your question accordingly. There were certainly major similarities between these presidents....
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s was a time of fairly rapid economic growth in the US, but also a time of rapidly widening economic inequality. This means that while the total amount of wealth in the US was growing...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Consumption increased during the 1920s because people had more money to spend. They bought war bonds during WWI that increased in value. People who worked in munitions plants made a good deal of...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Different people can have different opinions on this. My own opinion is that the most important effect of the 1920s was that it started America on its way toward having a split culture -- one in...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I would say that the Roaring '20s were caused largely by technolgical changes and by the policies of the Republican administrations of that decade. Technologically speaking, this was a time when...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
By definition, Mass culture refers to culture that is disseminated extensively and primarily through the mass media. It occurs when modern communication allows the transfer of information from the...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The new social trends of the 1920s challenged traditional attitudes in a number of ways. First, they challenged old attitudes about order and authority. New values, perhaps brought on by...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
There were a number of major trends in American culture during this time. Let us look at a few of the most important. They include: Jazz. This new form of music became popular during this time,...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
This statement is true to a fairly great extent. The auto industry was definitely responsible for much of the boom. However, there were also other factors that were important. Cars were important...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
There were various aspects of the Roaring Twenties. First, the 1920s did not "roar" for all Americans. After the war in Europe ended, demand for American foodstuffs abruptly declined, which meant...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
There were multiple sports that emerged during the 1920s, which provided Americans the opportunity to enjoy popular entertainment. The sports that emerged during the 1920s were baseball and boxing...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
In the 1920s, America witnessed a modern urban explosion. More than ever before, new cities began to come to life and attract an enormous number of immigrant laborers and Southern farmers seeking a...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
B is definitely the best answer of these options. First, we can see that D is clearly wrong because a decade’s politics cannot be both extremely liberal and extremely conservative. The 1920s...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s were prosperous (for many, but not all, Americans) largely because of the fact that America had been modernizing for some time. By the beginning of the decade, the American economy had...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The prosperity of the 1920s was established, but to some degree, that prosperity was built on a foundation that wasn’t very solid. One of the issues that eventually brought down the economy is that...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Supposing American Art in the 1920 is your interest, this broad topic encompasses European influence and American material while spanning from short stories and movies to mass media and includes...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s economy expanded rapidly, as did jobs in manufacturing, advertising, and construction. The 1920s were the first time we saw an American middle class of any real size. Many workers were...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
There was plenty of corruption in the 1920s, both government and private (and often intertwined). On the governmental level, just look at the administration of Warren Harding. His administration...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
I assume that you are talking about the changes early in the history of the United States -- changes that went along with the very early stages of industrialization. In general, historians tend to...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
Love that time period of American history, so there's no shortage of possible topics. Here are a couple that spring to mind: The 1920s drug problem - Opium dens proliferated in the late 1800s...
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Life in the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s are typically seen as a time when urban areas in the United States were becoming more modernized while rural areas remained traditional. This was the cause of a great deal of conflict...