https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65 America in the 1920's en-us 2017-01-24 01:51:32 UTC 2023-02-28 18:47:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Removelove.png 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905197 In this decade, America became the wealthiest country in the world with no obvious rival. Yet by 1930 she had hit a depression that was to have world-wide consequences]]> 2017-01-24 02:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905197 16kaiolowuky1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905208 You put a deposit on an item that you wanted and paid installments on that item, with interest.

Allowed people to buy whatever they wanted, but without planning for the future, they ended up in massive debt.]]> 2017-01-24 02:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905208 masmaj1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905314 America's powerful economy is frequently overlooked by more exciting topics such as Prohibition, The Jazz Age and the KKK.]]> 2017-01-24 02:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905314 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905413 The surfacing of flappers—women noted for their flamboyant style of dress, progressive attitudes, and modernized morals—began to captivate society during the Jazz Age.]]> 2017-01-24 02:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905413 ograde1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905586 The 'Jazz Age' brought an artistic renaissance to The United States. Artists such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Bessy Smith rose to prominence. Filmmaking also became popular, eventually becoming the nation's fourth largest industry tin he 1920's. ]]> 2017-01-24 02:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905586 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905589 As the 1920s progressed, jazz rose in popularity and helped to generate a cultural shift. Because of its popularity in speakeasies, illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold during Prohibition, and its proliferation due to the emergence of more advanced recording devices, jazz became very popular in a short amount of time.

The African Americans were forced to do menial labour for very poor wages in the southern states. They lived lives of misery in total poverty. The KKK made this misery worse. In the northern state, they lived in ghettos in the cities in very poor conditions.

Their only real outlet was jazz and dancing though this was done to entertain the richer white population, and sport, especially boxing.]]> 2017-01-24 02:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905589 masmaj1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905599 Simply buying something had a major impact on the economy. Somebody had to make what was bought as at this time, most work was labour intensive. The person who made the work would get paid and would not save the money. He would spend the money too and someone somewhere else would have to make what he bought so he would get paid.  This was the money flow belief of John Maynard Keynes. They get paid, spent their money and so the cycle continued.]]> 2017-01-24 02:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905599 tangh6 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905657  F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a time when "the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals looser."]]> 2017-01-24 02:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905657 caragr1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905729 2017-01-24 02:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905729 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905773 The Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged. Although the era ended with the outset of the Great Depression in 1929, jazz has lived on in American popular culture.]]> 2017-01-24 02:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905773 tangh6 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905785 A young woman whose unconventional clothing and progressive attitude personified the free spirit of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age.]]> 2017-01-24 02:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905785 tangh6 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905831 A popular type of radio show consisting of amateur concerts and big-band jazz performances broadcast from cities such as New York and Chicago.]]> 2017-01-24 02:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905831 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905847 2017-01-24 02:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905847 tangh6 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905867 A 1920s-era dance popularized by African Americans and named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.]]> 2017-01-24 02:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905867 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905873 2017-01-24 02:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148905873 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906033 2017-01-24 02:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906033 16kaiolowuky1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906123 The rise of jazz coincided with the rise of radio broadcast and recording technology, which spawned the popular "potter palm" shows that included big-band jazz performances.

By 1929, 10 million Radios were sold in the US.]]> 2017-01-24 02:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906123 ograde1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906197 2017-01-24 02:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906197 caragr1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906295 Artists: 
Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Edward Hopper, Charles Scheeler. Cubisim, Surrealism art became popular. ]]> 2017-01-24 02:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906295 16camerona1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906325 2017-01-24 02:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906325 16kaiolowuky1 https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906368 2017-01-24 02:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/masmaj1/ptu2qhvcdk65/wish/148906368