https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr en-us 2021-04-19 22:33:20 UTC 2021-04-23 16:57:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3a5.png imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435418071 The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It was the first feature length talking picture to feature a star singing and actor speaking and singing on screen.]]> 2021-04-19 22:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435418071 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435419657 The Charleston is a lively ballroom dance in which the knees are twisted in and out and the heels are swung sharply outward on each step. But it was banned in many places due to its apparent sexual nature and likelihood of exposing women's legs. ]]> 2021-04-19 22:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435419657 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435482622 The KKK was a viciously racist organization that employed violence and acts of terror in order to assert white supremacy and maintain a strict racial hierarchy. Although most of the KKK’s savagery was aimed at African Americans, their hatred extended to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, liberals, and progressives. In the South, it was largely believed that white supremacy and slavery were divine rights. Human government was (allegedly) interfering with the will of God. These men rarely saw anything wrong with slavery and held the belief that black people were lesser. The Klan felt immigrants and anyone not of WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) heritage was the underlying cause of America’s problems. Women join at this time as the Klan supported Prohibition, a female-supported cause]]> 2021-04-19 23:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435482622 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435513944 The National Origins Act of 1924 made the quotas stricter and permanent. These country-by-country limits were specifically designed to keep out “undesirable” ethnic groups and maintain America's character as nation of northern and western European stock. primary purpose was to restrict the flow of newcomers from Southern and Eastern Europe. ]]> 2021-04-19 23:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1435513944 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436074943 The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country's history prior to the Watergate affair of the Nixon administration in the 1970s. ]]> 2021-04-20 03:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436074943 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436091221 President Calvin Coolidge was known for being the president who did “nothing”.  “This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. His slogan “keep cool with Coolidge” mirrors what he did during his presidency, stayed cool.]]> 2021-04-20 03:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436091221 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436160093 Model T, automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. The Model T brought mobility and prosperity on an undreamed of scale through manufacturing efficiencies at a price that anyone could afford. The moving assembly line created the mass-production process, which influenced the “machine age.” It also enabled Ford to steadily decrease the price of the Model T. ]]> 2021-04-20 03:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436160093 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436224479 Vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and washing machines were becoming popular in many American homes. Throughout the 1920's, the electric iron, the electric toaster and the waffle iron also began to be sold. 2/3 of all American homes had electricity by 1924. The history of the Refrigerator began in the 1920. In the 1920s and '30s, consumers were introduced to freezers when the first electric refrigerators with ice cube compartments came on the market. The Ice boxes were replaced with ice everyday or so by an "ice man".]]> 2021-04-20 04:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436224479 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436277628 On the whole, the initial economic effects of Prohibition were largely negative. The closing of breweries, distilleries and saloons led to the elimination of thousands of jobs, and in turn thousands more jobs were eliminated for barrel makers, truckers, waiters, and other related trades. Prohibition ultimately failed because at least half the adult population wanted to carry on drinking, policing of the Volstead Act was riddled with contradictions, biases and corruption, and the lack of a specific ban on consumption hopelessly muddied the legal waters.]]> 2021-04-20 04:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436277628 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436286395 Al Capone was known to be extremely violent, and worked as a bouncer and bodyguard at first. After moving to Chicago he became a part of the war of rival gangs during the prohibition era. He is responsible for the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, a brutal killing of seven men in broad daylight. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate.]]> 2021-04-20 04:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436286395 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436353355 Scopes trial was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal. The trial featured two of the best-known orators of the era, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, as opposing attorneys. The trial was viewed as an opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of the bill, to publicly advocate for the legitimacy of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and to enhance the profile of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).]]> 2021-04-20 05:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436353355 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436364086 Flappers of the 1920s were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.]]> 2021-04-20 05:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436364086 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436378558 There were more job opportunities for women in the 1920s and 1930s due to better education. Many women found work as clerks, teachers and nurses. The nature of industries changed and new types of work emerged. Many women found work in the new light industries e.g. making electrical goods. Women responded, joining men in speakeasies, increasing sexuality (shorter skirts, higher divorce rates, drinking, smoking, etc). Also, single women could live alone in apartments in cities and work for a living for the first time.]]> 2021-04-20 05:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436378558 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436403430 The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. Louis, airplane in which Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget, near Paris. His flight was sponsored by a group of businessmen in St. Louis, Missouri.]]> 2021-04-20 05:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1436403430 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438513287 Charles Lindbergh was a famous aviator. In 1927 he became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation. He rose to international fame in 1927 after becoming the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis.]]> 2021-04-20 15:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438513287 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438555497 They were considered to be “lost” due to their tendency to act aimlessly, even recklessly, often focusing on the hedonistic accumulation of personal wealth. In literature, the term also refers to a group of well-known American authors and poets including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F.]]> 2021-04-20 15:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438555497 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438582605 The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. ]]> 2021-04-20 15:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438582605 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438597497 Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), primarily in the United States, organization founded by Marcus Garvey, dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent Black nation in Africa. ]]> 2021-04-20 15:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438597497 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438614031 Louis Armstrong was the singer and song-writer of the song “What a wonderful world”. In this song the writer is praising his surroundings and how happy he is with the blessings of God. He says that we have everything to praise and thank God. He is appreciating all the things present in the environment. He says that only God is capable of creating these marvelous things and we should take care of it.]]> 2021-04-20 15:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438614031 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438644155 Clara Bow was the personified the vivacious, emancipated flapper of the 1920s. From 1927 to 1930 she was one of the top five Hollywood box-office attractions. Clara Bow was born into a poor family; she was sexually abused by her father and neglected by her mentally unbalanced mother. Bobby Jones was born Robert Tyre Jones Jr in Atlanta on March 17, 1902. Jones won his first international competitions in Canada in 1919 and 1920 in an amateur team match. He also won the Southern Amateur three times in 1917, 1920 and 1922. In 1920 at age 18 Jones qualified for his first U.S. Open. Grange started to become an influence in pro football after the NFL passed a rule in 1926 called the "Red Grange Rule" to stop players from playing both college football and pro football in the same year. He is the last player to ever do so.]]> 2021-04-20 16:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438644155 imranareesha https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438659574 The 20s was also known as the Jazz Age, the decade of the 1920s featured economic prosperity and carefree living for many. The decade began with a roar and ended with a crash. Prosperity was on the rise in cities and towns, and social change flavored the air. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. Consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.]]> 2021-04-20 16:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/imranareesha/ylxh06i2apztg8lr/wish/1438659574