The Roaring 20s by Abigail Oxley https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp JAZZ, BOOZE, AND FITZGERALD en-us 2017-02-15 21:02:18 UTC 2025-11-14 00:27:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png Consumerism 300009878 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154170624 This was the protection and promotion in favor of the consumers! This broke out in the 1920's because billboards, televisions, radios, and magazines were being used. Factories abilities to mass produce also made it easier.]]> 2017-02-15 21:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154170624 Automobiles revolutionize American Lives 400016230 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154172861 Construction of roads to be suitable for driving in all types of weather
-Route 66 made accommodations for people traveling from Chicago to California

Houses began to come with garages and driveways 
 -Meant less lawn

Construction of gas stations

Public garages and traffic lights were built

The automobile liberated rural families
- Could now travel to the city

People could live on the outskirts of town
-Able to work in the city by commuting

New jobs due to the impact of the automobile 
Fast food, city/highway construction, state police, convenience stores, gas stations, auto repair shops
 
OVERALL MORE EMPLOYMENT 
]]> 2017-02-15 21:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154172861 NATIONAL CULTURE 400016230 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154174784 Americans started to have extra money around this time and they began to spend it on luxuries and leisure activities such as movies, radios, watching dance performances, and baseball games. People such as Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth were looked up to for their famous careers and Flappers came to be recognized. Flappers were women who wore gaudy jewelry and short, designed dresses. They fought for Feminism and helped women gain more rights (this started due to the 19th amendment). ]]> 2017-02-15 21:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154174784 RADIO! 300009878 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154176205 The boom of radio use led to both economic and technological advances. It made it easier to spread music, news, and advertisement available to the masses at once, the younger people really enjoyed it. This brought further unification of Americans together because people were all up to date on the same things. Everyday people had the same access to information as those of a higher status, and employed people.]]> 2017-02-15 21:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154176205 ABBY OXLEY & ISABELLA WOUTERS 400016230 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154176224 period 5 ]]> 2017-02-15 21:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154176224 HEROES 300009878 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154190668 People started to idolize and look up to famous people because they had more free time and got more into sports, especially baseball and were updated easily by the radio on certain people. The most famous baseball player of the time was Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin was famous for his short films, F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous for writing "The Great Gatsby" and other books, Albert Einstein was a scientist who made exceptional breakthroughs in theory of relativity and energy equivalence, and Louis Armstrong was an extremely famous jazz singer.]]> 2017-02-15 23:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154190668 Fashion and Music reflecting the spirit of the time. 400016230 https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154190720 At this time women are finally feeling liberated (because of women's suffrage) therefore their fashion was the one that really took a huge turn. Women started cutting their hair and wearing their skirts much shorter. The women that headed these fashion statements and took them to the next level are called FLAPPERS. A big part of their influence of liberation was the feeling that they got when listening to jazz music. The tunes of Jimmie Rogers and Louis Armstrong had a huge impact on the "JAZZ AGE" because along with the the metamorphosis of fashion and music it was a representation of rebellion. ]]> 2017-02-15 23:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/400016230/fqiqbcph25yp/wish/154190720