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Aviation

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Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly solo to Europe on a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas

The affect of automobile

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The institution of the automobile heavily affected family life among the establishment of a more mobile society. Rural Americans could drive around freely and examine the world around them.

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Ty Henderson

Radio

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The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.

The Twenties

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

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Mass production

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Mass production made technology affordable to the middle class. The automobile, movie and radio industries skyrocketed during the 1920s.

Model T.

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Ford discontinued the Model T after selling 15 million of that model.

Nativism

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Nativism definition: The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

The Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack.

Second Klu Klux Klan

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Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.

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Prohibition

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Prohibition in the United States focused on the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Drinking itself was never illegal, and there were exceptions for medicinal and religious uses, The sale of alcohol was illegal, but alcoholic drinks were still widely available. People also kept private bars to serve their guests. Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from Canada, overland, by sea along both ocean coasts, and via the Great Lakes.

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Sacco & Vanzetti

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Sacco & Vanzetti stood by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. There trial was suspected to be bias because they where radicals.

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Scopes trial

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In response, the American Civil Liberties Union financed a test case in which John Scopes, a Tennessee high school science teacher, agreed to be tried for violating the Act. Scopes, who has substituted for the regular biology teacher, was charged on May 5, 1925, with teaching evolution from a chapter in Civic Biology, a textbook by George William Hunter, that described the theory of evolution. The two sides brought in the biggest names in the nation, William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense, and the trial was followed on radio transmissions throughout America.

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How was modern culture changed in the 1920s

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