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http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties
http://www.glencoe.com/ose/showbook.php

www.brainyquote.com
en.wikipedia.org

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He gace confidence back to the black community and allowed them to be proud. Becuase of him people had begun feeling pride in their race again.

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They attempted to bass a bill to stop lynchings but were unsuccesful. Although they did manage to prevent a judge from getting admitted into the spreme court with organized lobbying. This was an early example of the NAACP being success.

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He was the creator of modern jazz, which was the most popular genre of music in the 20's. It was generally some what upbeat but it was all improvised.

What we play is life.

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He was one of the first writers during the renaissance
to write about the racism that was still in America. It was a little talked subject but she brought some light to it.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

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Many people moved from the small towns to the large cities. Although this phenomena was not limited to whites. African Americans also followed to the cities. Africans Americans were able to go to the city and do what they wanted for their own enjoyment. In the cities they were able to escape the racism that still lingered in the south. "In the 1920s, Harlem's African-American population exploded nearly 200,000 African Americans inhabiting a neighborhood where there had been virtually no blacks 15 years earlier."

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How did African Americans effect society in the twenties?

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Jack Dempsey was idolized by most people in the twenties. When he lost the title he had, he later tried to earn it back and there was so much hype for the fight that one store sold of 90 thousand dollars worth of radios in the two weeks preceding the event. Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
This quote really embodies the invincible feeling the country had around itself at the time.

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She had begun to create more racy paintings. Although they were not blatant they had had some undlerlying images that were far off from what paintings before 1920 would have been.

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Scott Fitzgerald was an author that wrote The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was a novel that had a lot to do with change in society. The book kind of mirrored the change from society. There were two towns, one that was more centered around pre 1920 beliefs and one based on 20s beliefs. "It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present

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People were enjoying things together now. For the first time in history everybody in a the country could receive information/ entertainment that was the exact same for everybody every time. This helped bring the country together and allowed entertainment to be mass produced and mass consumer.

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Babe Ruth was the all star of the time. He essentially embodied the growth of spectator sports. ot only was he great at the sport, but he was one of the best hitters of all time. "Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

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How did pop culture, the arts, and literature change?

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Radios allowed Everybody in the country to be united and enjoy something together. For the very first time everybody in the country could be united at once. And with how limited the amount stations they were really forced to be together.

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Before the twenties there was very little goods that were made for pure enjoyment out of the consumer. Generally they would be made for some practical use. And as people actually got the money to spend on things for themselves and not things for survival people were more willing to biuy these consumer goods.

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In the 20's people were more and more okay with being in debt. As more and more people started to follow that belief they would be willing to buy expensive things. Eventually people were buying things that they otherwise would have never been able to buy.

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The model T was not only cheap car, but it is one of the most impactful goods of all time. It allowed for anyone to travel so much farther than they had ever been able to go. It gave teenagers freedom to go out and do what they wanted without their parents having any control. When ford was interviewed about the car he said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” meaning that people never would have expected this.

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Ford "Model T" 100th Anniversary 2008 - Feature Clip

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2008 the legendary Ford "Model T" celebrated it´s 100th birthday. See this short feature Clip starring the car that wrote history...

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Mass production did more than just allow us to create a ton of goods. It also let more people get expensive things. The price of a car for example went down so significantly that the workers at the factories could afford to buy the car

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How did new industries and a consumer society contribute to the roaring twenties?

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1920s Speakeasy, U.S., Prohibition, Drinking, Dancing, Archive Footage

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From the Kinolibrary archive film collections. To order the clip clean and high res visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref KLR672 1920s speakeasy, people walk up to entrance, drinking dancing, roaring twenties

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Many people didn't like the way that the government

could take that much control. They didn't think that the government should have that much power. Immediately after

prohibition began speakeasies came to be and people still

found a way to drink like they wanted to. People were so angry at this that "over 70 federal agents were killed"

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Many people were upset that a man taught a class

about evolution instead of creation. He went to court

and people believed that society would change because

the theory of evolution was becoming more accepted.

This means that the world would be stepping away from

religion and more towards science.

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Women had begun to act in a very different way than they had ever done before.

They would stay out late, drink, party, and act much like men did. This scared many

people because they thought that women should be dressed in a much formal and

less revealing way. "After gaining the right to vote... many women sought to break the traditional

roles and behaviours that were expected of them.

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They believed that society was under attack

because the way it was evolving went against

their beliefs. The most prevelent reason was

that african americans were becoming more

accepted into the country. They said that

the groups people were accepting were

"un-american".

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Why did modern culture of the 1920's cause some people

to think traditional society and morality were under attack