The New Era The assembly lines helped the economic boom which made the automobile industry grow. With the car industry it made it easy for people to move around ,so people began to go to the suburbs which made construction jobs increase. The treatment of workers began to get better. Some employers began using Welfare Capitalism which for example gave workers paid vacations, shorter work days and higher wages. Women started to work they had jobs such as secretaries, telephone operators and salesclerk. Unions would not represent African Americans so they had to take jobs such as janitors and dishwashers. Asian and Hispanics in the west and south west worked on farms, construction sites and railroads. The increase of wages allowed people to have extra money to spend. Middle class families bought washing machines and refrigerators. While the women were able to buy cosmetics and clothes. Advertisement became big and convinced people to buy items. Movies became popular and the Motion Picture Association was created because of all the scandals. Radio also became popular and congress passed the Radio Act to regulate what was allowed to play on the radio. Women wanted to become their own person and not have to live up to the expectation of what being a …show more content…
Prohibition which was thought to help decrease crime actually increased it. Organized crime became popular and people sold alcohol illegally. The Klan came back and didn't just focus on their hatred for african americans they also hated Catholics, Jewish people and foreigners. They continued to terrorize people they didn't like. The national Origins Act of 1924 banned immigration from Asia and some of Europe. Fundamentalist wanted to keep the focus on the bible and didn't want darwinism to be taught. A biology teacher had to go to trial after Darwinism teaching was outlawed. The democrat party was divided because of their different views causing them to lose the
According to the notes, the loophole of being able to make your beer at home, people used that as a way to sell products, and this started the black market. Due to this crime, all together increased by twenty-four percent, and ten thousand people died due to the poisoning of alcohol. In the 1930s, many new protections for the banks came out to protect income. According to the notes, the Emergency Banking act provided a way for the stock market to be controlled. In addition, the AAA got crop prices to get back up for the farmers, and the TVA generated electricity for those who couldn’t afford it at the time.
This made the economy sky rocket and allowed tons of jobs to be available for lower class Americans and immigrants. Although the pay was low, the businesses and industries were growing, and farmers were not doing so well. As a result, the younger generation who did live on farms, moved into the more industrial areas in hopes a better work. Families also moved from farmland into the more industrial areas and put their children in school or began working them young and put them in factories to help provide for the families. The conditions in these factories were awful and the rise of child labor conditions began to need a change.
The end of WWI was a period known as the Roaring Twenties. Most were hoping for a period or happiness and delight. The US started to turn over from a time of war to a time of peace and celebration. Everyone spent money on improving their everyday lifestyle.
Prohibition got rid of saloons, many well known restaurants and clubs. It was not even enforced by the people who started this but the starters would be hypocritical putting a law for no consumption of liquor but they were drinking it themselves. Officers and others of the federal government were bribed. The worst of all the murder rates went up mostly because of the criminals and their gang
The 1920’s in America is often considered as “The Roaring Twenties. World War I was over, women got suffrage, fashion changed immensely, prohibition was put into place, and jazz filled the air. The Roaring ‘20s was a decade of play and prosperity. Unemployment was low and Americans were better off financially. After World War I, America wanted to return to normal.
Technology and machinery played a great role in the working class due to better production of goods. The quality and quantity of the goods being produce rose because of the advancements of technology as well as machinery. Although technology and machinery advancements were one of the positives that seemed to help the working-class it also hurt them. The machines were more productive than the workers were and this meant that businesses replaced workers with machines. As a result of this many of the working-class lost their jobs and were sent to find work other places.
Similarly to the economy, culture clashes had a large effect on American life in the 1920s. Since the 1920s was known to be the “age of fun” many people found fun in parties and alcohol, and many people saw alcohol as harmless, but the government saw it as the root of all our nation's problems and decided to ban it in the 18th amendment. This angered many people but they found a way around it by creating speakeasies, which were secret places that illegally sold alcohol. Many gangs started to make alcohol and sell it for a profit, which made the government realize that they could tax the alcohol being sold, and thus created the 21st amendment which allowed the production and selling of alcohol. The KKK flourished under prohibition because they
Socially, Congress passed the 19th Amendment which allowed women the right to vote. Economically, the introduction of the automobile, radio, and the airplane brought prosperity in America. Culturally, the 18th Amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in America. The dawn of the 1920s brought many social changes in America.
The war fever made the political parties even more divided. People did not trust immigrants. Federalists thought the immigrants would back the Republicans. Congress passed the alien act that raised the time to live in the U.S. to be nationalized from 5 to 14 years (9 years longer) and gave the president the power to deport or imprison any alien he considered dangerous. People thought this was unfair, so Congress passed the sedition act (sedition is activity designed to overthrow government) that harshly limited free speech by making it illegal to write and say anything insulting, false, or with “bad intent” about the government.
Parents were trying to make more money by selling their houses, cars, and disconnecting phones but most people never had phones. Most adults that were working lived without a dependable income. No one knew how much the pay was going to be. Companies were losing money just like everyone else in America. People in America were in a very dark time because of all of
The 1920s carried much change in society. Some of these changes were more rights for women, jazz music, and prohibition. The people of the 1920s were disillusioned by society lacking in idealism and vision, sense of personal alienation, and Americans were obsessed with materialism and outmoded moral values (The Roaring Twenties).Cultural changes were strongly influenced by the destruction of World War I ending 1918. America needed to recover and with it youth rebelled against the norms of the older generations.
Transportation meant more interactions of people and information, but often had devastating effects due to the human folly of wanting to decrease time. Women in the work force increased the production rate, as well as a boom in the economy, but were often treated in inhumane conditions and regarded lowly. Banks allowed vast opportunities for the wealthy investors, but also ended up disabling the poor working force, especially in the depression. As such, while there were evident benefits to the market revolution that heavily boosted the economy and development of the country, the drawbacks still outweighed the positives. Death and people taking advantages of others led to the market revolution being a dark time in American history.
In World War 1 a lot changed for the United States. One things that changed was their foreign policy. We know it changed because they went from a period of isolationism to being involved in world affairs. We are going to look at how the war changed American society, why they entered the war, and the foreign policy change. During World War 1 a lot changed about American society.
Women wanted to obtain college degrees, they wanted to do something different for themselves. The new woman was characterized for their free spirit, and way to think. The new women came to be defined as a
It was a paradigm shift from women being the objects of male gaze to the creation of a self sufficient female gaze, from being objects to being the subject