The Roaring 20s
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- Created on: 05-06-13 09:49
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- The Roaring 20s
- Isolationism
- Republicans rejected the Treaty of Versailles
- 'America first' ideas - led to rejection of the treaty and Isolationism
- Republicans rejected the Treaty of Versailles
- Tariffs
- Fordney-McCumber tariff - made foreign goods more expensive
- American economy flourished
- But foreign countries did the same to American goods, so the USA made less money from exports
- Fordney-McCumber tariff - made foreign goods more expensive
- Mass Production
- Producing goods quickly and cheaply so more people can buy them
- By 1928 20% of Americans had cars
- By 1929 10 million radios had been sold
- Entertainment and social growth
- Sports
- Because of the introduction of Raadios, sport became very popular
- Car ownership meant more people could go and see live sport
- Sports personalities became famous
- Women
- Socially active women were known as 'Flappers'
- They wore short skirts, had bob haircuts, smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol
- Womens role in the 1920s changed due to the work they did in WW1
- Socially active women were known as 'Flappers'
- Clubs and Jazz
- Jazz music became very popular and accessable due to radios
- More people went to clubs and drank due to relaxed social attitudes
- Jazz music was a craze in the 20s
- Both of these things became very popular especially in cities
- Media
- Hollywood became a huge industry and films became extremely popular
- Cars meant that cinema was more popular
- Radios and therefore music became very popular
- By 1929 10 million radios had been sold
- Hollywood became a huge industry and films became extremely popular
- Sports
- Prohibition (The Volstead Act)
- Introduced because alcoholism was a problem and because temperance groups campaigned for the ban
- This law was often broken
- People made 'moonshine' homemade alcohol which could be extremely dangerous to health
- Speakeasies - illegal drinking clubs
- Isolationism
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