https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva Made with fortitude en-us 2018-01-10 19:07:00 UTC 2018-01-14 21:51:40 UTC hello@padlet.com aurora_gimenezperez https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220344762  In the Roaring Twenties a lot more people started to dance different styles like Charleston.They were an escape from the horror of war, and an opportunity to release pent up emotions created by the restricted lifestyles forced on the public by the war effort.]]> 2018-01-10 19:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220344762 aurora_gimenezperez https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220348193 Advances in technology led to the age of electricity. Access to it in the 1920's provided Americans with the power required to run new labor-saving devices such as refrigerators, washing machines, radios, phonographs, electric razors and irons,  and vacuum cleaners.]]> 2018-01-10 19:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220348193 aurora_gimenezperez https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220350584 They were young women with bobbed hairs and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations. ]]> 2018-01-10 19:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220350584 aurora_gimenezperez https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220352012 The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors,” and on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. 
From then on, it was illegal to sell any “intoxication beverages” with more than 0.5% alcohol.]]> 2018-01-10 19:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220352012 aurora_gimenezperez https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220356389 Prohibition was not the only source of social tension during the 1920s. The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern countryside to Northern cities and the increasing visibility of black culture discomfited some white Americans. Millions of people joined the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s.]]> 2018-01-10 19:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aurora_gimenezperez/bsh2topcdva/wish/220356389