America in the 20s by Andrew Chitester https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7 Made with good vibes | Andrew - Vanius - Cameron - Spencer en-us 2018-02-01 13:05:01 UTC 2026-02-13 19:09:52 UTC hello@padlet.com In the 1020's everybody started to buy stocks bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227009817 2018-02-01 13:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227009817 The excessive use of alcohol resulted in criminal activity. These criminals wanted to "corner the rich market in booze", and use force to do so. chitester_ac https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227010869 2018-02-01 13:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227010869 Little was done by Washington to curb money-mad speculators. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227011217 2018-02-01 13:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227011217 national debt had rocketed from the 1914 figure of $1,188,235,400 to the 1921peak of $23,976,250,608. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227011331 2018-02-01 13:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227011331 Mellon reduced the national debt by $10 billion—fromabout $26 billion to $16 billion. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227012595 2018-02-01 13:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227012595 http://www.history.com/topics/1929-stock-market-crash bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227013193 2018-02-01 13:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227013193 bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227013356 2018-02-01 13:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227013356 Likewise in literature and the arts, an older era seemed to have ground to a halt with therecent war. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227014545 2018-02-01 13:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227014545 1920s, most of the custodians of an aging genteel culturehad died—Henry James in 1916, Henry Adams in 1918, and William Dean Howells (“theDean of American literature”) bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227014714 2018-02-01 13:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227014714 radical. Many American writers continued toemploy a familiar regionalist style that was by turns celebratory and critical. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227017638 2018-02-01 13:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227017638 Capone was a notorious mobster who would result in murder in order to eliminate his competition. Capone dressed like a businessman, and in a sense was. chitester_ac https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227018712 2018-02-01 13:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227018712 Far-reaching changes in lifestyles and values paralleled the dramatic upsurge of theeconomy. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227019146 2018-02-01 13:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227019146 chitester_ac https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227019351 2018-02-01 13:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227019351 Isolationist Americans of the 1920s felt they had no use for immigrants. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227021999 2018-02-01 13:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227021999 chitester_ac https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022677 2018-02-01 13:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022677 The census of 1920 revealed that for the first time most Americans no longer livedin the countryside but in urban areas. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022702 2018-02-01 13:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022702 The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 placed a quota on the number of European immigrants who could come to America each year. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022723 2018-02-01 13:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022723 Women continued to find opportunities foremployment in the cities, though they tended to cluster in a few low-paying jobs (such asretail clerking and office typing) that became classified as “women’s work.” An organizedbirth-control movement, led by the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022923 2018-02-01 13:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227022923 It was set at 3% of the people of their nationality who had been living in the United States in 1910. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023165 2018-02-01 13:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023165 https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/urban_and_rural_areas.html bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023176 2018-02-01 13:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023176 bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023362 2018-02-01 13:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227023362 https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/03/harvards-eugenics-era west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227466867 2018-02-02 13:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227466867 west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227467082 2018-02-02 13:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227467082 The flickering movie was the fruit of numerous geniuses, including Thomas A. Edison. As early as the 1890s, this novel contraption, though still in crude form, had attained some popularity in the naughty peep-show penny arcades. bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227467258 This breathless melodrama, The
Great Train Robbery, was featured in the five-cent theaters, popularly called “nickelodeons.”
Spectacular among the first full-length classics was D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915),
which glorified the Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days and defamed both blacks and

Northern carpetbaggers.
Hollywood, in southern California, quickly became
the movie capital of the world]]> 2018-02-02 13:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227467258 World War I and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's tax policies brought prosperity to the mid-1920s. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227469221 2018-02-02 13:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227469221 Sports became a big business in the consumer economy of the 1920s. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227469529 2018-02-02 13:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227469529 Buying in credit was another new feature of the postwar economy. Prosperity thus led to increased personal debt, and the economy became increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227470322 2018-02-02 13:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227470322 http://www.1920-30.com/music/ bartlett_cp https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471058 2018-02-02 13:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471058 west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471274 2018-02-02 13:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471274 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471546 2018-02-02 13:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471546 The Ku Klux Klan (Knights of the Invisible Empire) grew in the early 1920s out of the growing intolerance and prejudice of the American public. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471973 2018-02-02 13:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227471973 It was most popular in the Midwest and the South. The Klan was antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control. It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472161 2018-02-02 13:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472161 It fell apart in the late 1920s after it was discovered that Klan official were embezzling money. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472319 2018-02-02 13:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472319 west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472829 2018-02-02 13:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227472829 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473026 2018-02-02 13:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473026 Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless telegraphy (the telegraph) in the 1890s. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473708 2018-02-02 13:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473708 In the 1920s, the first voice-carrying radio broadcasts were transmitted. Automobiles drew Americans away from the home, but the radio brought them back. The radio made significant educational and cultural contributions. west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473862 2018-02-02 13:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227473862 west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227482825 2018-02-02 14:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227482825 http://otecorporation.com/portfolio/marconi/ west_sk https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227483024 2018-02-02 14:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227483024 valentukevicius_v https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227864482 In 1903, the Wright brothers were the first people to successfully fly an aircraft. From then on, planes progressed and it became easier to reach far away places around the world. In 1927, in a grueling 33 hour flight, the Atlantic was crossed via aircraft for the first time ever. The man who achieved this feat was Charles Lindbergh and he was seen as a hero by many. This gave birth to a new industry which had an effect on many different aspects of life and government.

More info: http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro.htm]]> 2018-02-04 15:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/227864482 Americans were afraid of communist influence on American society. They were afraid because the Bolshevik party seized power (referred to as the Bolshevik Revolution). A communist party in America emerged and caused tension in the USA. chitester_ac https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228316719 2018-02-05 19:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228316719 valentukevicius_v https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228566057 In 1919 the government made a constitutional amendment that prohibited drinking. Illegal manufacturers of alcohol (moonshiners) benefited greatly from this until the government started cracking down on them. In the south this intended to keep alcohol away from blacks and in the west it intended to decrease prostitution, crime, etc. This law didn't work well because the lawmakers overlooked the thirst that Americans had for alcohol and the fact that everyone was willing to disobey the law. Bad types of homemade alcohol started to rise. Some could even cause blindness or death but it satisfied the thirst and so it was commonly drunk. Hard alcohol also became more popular because it was more worth smuggling. As you can see, the prohibition experiment did not work.

More info: http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition]]> 2018-02-06 13:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228566057 valentukevicius_v https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228576210 Education progressed in the 1920's with the amount of people who finished high school almost doubling. More and more states started requiring kids to finish high school. ]]> 2018-02-06 13:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228576210 valentukevicius_v https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228782643 Health also improved drastically due to a health plan that was passed in 1909. This increased peoples life expectancy and it minimized or got rid of many diseases.]]> 2018-02-06 18:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228782643 valentukevicius_v https://padlet.com/chitester_ac/c7rrrl6ekyv7/wish/228784129 Progression in education and health was met with backlash by some religions. In 1925 a biology teacher got sued for teaching the theory of evolution. He was found guilty and was going to be fined 100$ but the fine was terminated due to the circumstances of the advisory.

More info: http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/culture-magazines/1920s-education-overview

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More info: http://www.history.com/topics/automobiles

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