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America has come a long way from the 1920's, but without all of the innovations and advances we made in that decade, life today wouldn't be what it is. Economically and politically we had great leaders, and our share of not so good ones. This decade was the turning point of Americas change.

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Consumer credit began to boom in the 1920's for many reasons.
More jobs paid middle-class salaries while new devices like radios, vacuum cleaners, phonographs, and washing machines came onto the market, or became affordable. While Americans tended to buy their day-to-day necessecities with cash, beginning in the twenties, they bought most of their more expensive long-lasting goods on the installment plan, some money down at first, followed by a year of monthly payments. Economic historians calculate that while in 1920, few middle class consumers used credit to buy goods, by the end of the decade, American consumers bought 60 to 75 percent of cars, 80 to 90 percent of furniture, 75 percent of washing machines, 65 percent of vacuum cleaners, 18 to 25 percent of jewelry, 75 percent of radios, and 80 percent of phonographs on the installment plan. This helped the longevity of the economy in this decade.
http://www.umsl.edu/virtualstl/phase2/1920/events/consumer.html

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Thomas Anderson and Earl Dickinson, two employees of Johnson & Johnson, are the inventors of the Band-Aid. One day in 1920, Anderson's wife acquired a small cut on her finger, at the time he had a prototype of a Band-Aid, which allowed her to dress her wound herself, After this discovery Dickinson passed the idea onto his employer, where it went on to be produced in mass and sold on shelves soon. This invention changed the way we become more independent as Americans, even in the smallest of steps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-Aid

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The 1920's was a time for change and the renewing of everything!
Women who were fun, exciting and adventurous were seen as crazy by most of society, they were called flappers. These women embraced a lifestyle of freedom and energetic fun, they pushed the boundaries in economic, political and sexual freedoms. During World War I, women entered the workforce in large numbers, receiving higher wages that many working women were not willing to give up during peacetime.

In August 1920, women’s independence took another step forward with the passage of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. And in the early 1920s, Margret Sanger made efforts to provide contraception to women, sparking a wave of women’s rights to birth control.

The 1920s also brought about Prohibition, the result of the 18th amendment ending legal alcohol sales. Combined with an explosion of popularity for jazz music and jazz clubs, the stage was set for speakeasies, which offered illegally produced and distributed alcohol.
This made the perfect opportunity for these women to be themselves
https://www.history.com/topics/flappers

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book The Great Gatsby in 1925. This novella shows some insight to how the 1920's were. The character of millionaire Jay Gatsby represents the extremes of 1920s wealth and decadence. This book is all about the extravagant lifestyles of the rich and party goers of this decade. It entails many stories of the elegant, and drunken parties that took place.
Prohibition was taken place during this time, yet this seemed to be the primary years for drinking. This book perfectly portrays the culture and society of mainly high class in the 1920's. The influence of culture and traditions that the Great Gatsby had on this decade carried on into today's society.

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Ya like jazz? Well, if you lived during the 1920's, you definitely would.
Jazz was on the uprising in the 1920's, The music genre became very popular during this time. It was born in New Orleans, Kid Ory was the first great jazz trombonist, and was in high demand in the 1920s. His New Orleans band, that was formed in 1912 fostered many young and rising jazz musicians, which included King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dobbs, Sidney Bechet, and many others. Ory brought the New Orleans sound to Los Angeles in 1919 and it spread even more from there.
The Original DIxieland Jazz Band
was the first jazz band to record
"The Sound of New Orleans" in 1917.  Between 1917-1922, many recording
companies recorded white jazz bands.  It was not until 1922 that record
companies finally became convinced that African American musicians would be
popular with the consumer market. Mamie Smith encouraged the production of
the first race records with her early blues recordings with Okeh Records.
The Okeh Record Corporation was one of the first record companies to target the urban African American working-class.  Since then, Jazz has been a classic in the music world.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/racerec.html

http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-music.html

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Meanwhile the Automobile industry did good for the economy, the farming industry was not doing so well.
Farming in the 1920's was rough. U.S. agriculture had expanded during the First World War to sell food to Europe, but afterwards countries returned to growing their own again. The expansion had led to over-production which led to too much food on the market. Farmers found it increasingly difficult to sell their produce. Despite agricultural overproduction and successive attempts in Congress to provide relief, the agricultural economy of the 1920's experienced an ongoing depression. Large surpluses were followed by falling prices when they were burdened by a load of debt. Between 1920 and 1932, one in four farms was sold to meet financial obligations and many farmers moved to more urban areas. With one-fifth of the American population making their living on the land, rural poverty was widespread. So, not everybody was able to participate fully in the emergent consumer economy in American. Apart from white farmers, African American and immigrants found this decade tough for them and their farms.
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/history/A9_Farming20s.htm

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The automobile was already perfected by the late 1800's in France and Germany, though Americans caught up within the first half of the twentieth century. By the 1920's, Henry Ford became mass-producing auto mobiles, taking on the country along with Chrysler and General Motors.
Ford produced a car named, The T-Model, and it sold about 1,700 cars in its first year of business, by 1920 the business had sold over a million cars.
The automobile industry was one of the major contributors to the longevity of the economy in the 1920's.
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/automobile/commerce.html

https://www.history.com/topics/automobiles

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Insulin is a hormone our body produces to keep our sugar levels in our blood up or down. The lack of insulin, is a result in Diabetes.
Diabetes before this discovery would leave people who had the disease with not a very long life-expectancy because doctors would just try to lessen the amount of carbohydrates they ate. Some patients had such small diets they would consist of 450 calories a day, a number of patients died from starvation.
One day in 1889 two German researchers found that when you took the pancreas out of a dog, the animals developed symptoms of diabetes. This led to the discovery of where insulin actually came from.
In 1921, a surgeon named Fredrick Banting and his assistant Charles Best figured out how to actually remove insulin from a dogs pancreas. On January of 1922, the first injection of insulin was given to Leonard Thompson, a boy who was dying at the time from diabetes. Within 24-hours of the injection his sugar levels were down to normal.
http://diabetesstopshere.org/2012/08/21/the-history-of-a-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin/

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Lindbergh was interested in flight ever since World War I, and became a barnstorming pilot in the Midwest.
In 1924 he enlisted in the Army Air Service and became a reserve officer in the Missouri National Guard. The next year he was hired as chief pilot for the Robertson Aircraft Corporation, which flew the air mail between St. Louis and Chicago.
The historic flight made by Lindbergh was one that changed the face of aviation.
In 1927 Lindbergh took a nonstop flight in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York to Paris. This flight was 33 and a half hours along with being over 3,600 miles. Lindbergh was alone in the plane and this was the first solo transatlantic flight along with with first non-stop flight between America and mainland Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

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The Immigration Act limited the number of immigrants tat could enter the U.S. through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.
The literacy test that used to be in place was not enough to prevent most potential immigrants from entering, so congress wanted to seek others ways to restrict immigration in the 1920's. The 1924 Immigration Act also included a provision excluding from entry any alien who by virtue of race or nationality was ineligible for citizenship.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act

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Warren Harding, the 29th president, 1921-1923

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Warren Harding, the 29th president, 1921-1923

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Harding served in office from 1921-1923 after having died from an apparent heart attack. Although his term was short lived,  he was one of the most popular presidents.
During his presidency he followed a predominantly pro-business, conservative republican strategy. Taxes were reduced, particularly for corporations and wealthy individuals and high protective tariffs were enacted, along with immigration being limited. He was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women. By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be pave the way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers addressed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise–“Less government in business and more business in government.”
Although he was one of the most popular presidents, following his death America learned of the corruption that went on behind the scenes-though he did not engage in any of the criminal activity. The Teapot Dome Scandal was more widely talked about than the rest. The Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall (1861-1944) rented public lands to oil companies in exchange for gifts and personal loans. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes and spent less than a year in prison. Other government officials took payoffs and embezzled funds. Harding himself allegedly had extramarital affairs and drank alcohol in the White House, a violation of the 18th Amendment.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/warren-g-harding

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/warren-g-harding/

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During the beginning of The United States, women were denied most of the basic rights that were granted to men. For example, married women couldn't own land and had no legal claim to any money that they might earn. Women were just seen as a symbol of a housewife and cleaner.
Meanwhile there were women who were dismissing the notion that the perfect woman was supposed to be just a submissive housewife that was concerned with only their home and family.
This contributed to a new way of thinking about being a woman and citizen in America.
The 19th amendment was ratified on August 18th, 1920.
The major contributors to this amendment played big roles in the women's suffrage and fought for our rights to vote by picketing, organizing petitions and protest. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment

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the 1920's was an era of Republican leadership, nationalistic and fundamentalist movements, and changing social conventions. This decade paved the way for many innovations and ideas to spread across the world and America. The decade wasn't called "The roaring 20's" for nothing, numerous advances broke the seal between past and future. This decade changed the way Americans view life and live their own.