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Mind Map by matteoacarroll, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by matteoacarroll
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Roaring Twenties
- The Car
- Cars helped the cities grow by opening up the suburbs
- Carried workers to and from their work and their entertainment facilities.
- Cars took Americans to: - sporting events, beach holidays, shopping trips, picnics in the countryside, and visits to family and friends.
- Cars helped the cities grow by opening up the suburbs
- Morals
- Sex became a major concern of tabloid newspapers, Hollywood films, and everyday conversations.
- Scott Fitzgerald - American writer - The Great Gatsby.
- 36 states threatened to introduce a censorship legislation.
- Scott Fitzgerald - American writer - The Great Gatsby.
- American Dream?
- Sex became a major concern of tabloid newspapers, Hollywood films, and everyday conversations.
- Growing Cities
- Imposing skyline of skyscrapers; skyscrapers were built because there was no more land.
- More Americans lived in towns than in cities.
- tension between rural USA and urban USA
- People from the countryside thought that their traditional values (religion and family life), were being threatened from the growing cities.
- They thought that the cities were full of atheists, drunks, and criminals.
- They thought that the cities were full of atheists, drunks, and criminals.
- People from the countryside thought that their traditional values (religion and family life), were being threatened from the growing cities.
- Imposing skyline of skyscrapers; skyscrapers were built because there was no more land.
- Entertainment
- Average working weekly hours dropped from 47.4 to 44.2.
- Average wages rose by 11%.
- Sports
- Boxing was also a very popular sport; Jack Dempsey.
- Baseball became a big money sport with legendary teams; the Red Sox, Yankees.
- Boxing was also a very popular sport; Jack Dempsey.
- Radio
- People that couldn't afford to buy one out right, could purchase one in installments.
- By the end of 1922, there were 508 licensed radio stations in the USA.
- By 1929, for example, NBC was making $150 million a year.
- People that couldn't afford to buy one out right, could purchase one in installments.
- Jazz
- inspirational
- became an obsession among young people.
- Jazz brought the Charleston dance and flappers.
- had a primitive rhythm.
- So much power that it became known as the Jazz Age.
- Older generation saw jazz and associates as a corrupting influence on the young people of the USA.
- Black people that went to the cities brought jazz and blues music with them.
- Blues music was more popular within the black population.
- Blues music was more popular within the black population.
- inspirational
- Cinema
- movies became a multi-billion dollar business.
- One hundred million tickets were sold each week.
- One hundred million tickets were sold each week.
- UNtil 1927 all movies were silent.
- 1927 - first talkie was made.
- 1927 - first talkie was made.
- Hollywood
- Studio produced a large amount of films.
- Studio produced a large amount of films.
- New stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Bushes Keaton
- movies became a multi-billion dollar business.
- Average working weekly hours dropped from 47.4 to 44.2.
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