America 1920's
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- Created on: 29-04-14 13:36
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- USA 1920's
- Women
- women working increased by 25%
- women got the vote
- 'Flappers'
- smoked in public
- danced the new dances
- sexually liberated
- didnt wear long skirts or corsets
- divorce was easier
- didn't have to cope with bad husbands
- Most were still housewives
- Industry and social change
- Economic boom
- Gross national product grew from $78 billion to $103 billion
- Households with a radio grew from 60,000 to 10 million
- Affected society
- Jobs were easy to find
- women wore make up
- shorter skirts
- smoked in public
- Cars were made
- Henry Ford
- Model T Ford cost less than $300
- By 1929 more then 26 million cars were registered in America
- Production lines
- Cause of the boom
- Isolationism
- Technology
- Mass production
- Hire purchase
- Shares
- Hire purchase
- Mass production
- Technology
- Isolationism
- Economic boom
- Problems
- Industry
- Coal and textiles did not exist
- American exports reduced
- Agriculture
- Farmers suffered with poverty
- Lot of growing
- Produced too much
- Social
- Wealthy people were rich
- 5% of population owned 1/3 of the wealth
- 42% of population was below the poverty line
- Racism
- Klu Klux Klan were frightening
- Many Black people were killed or tortured
- Industry
- Prohibition
- National mood
- No alcohol
- Practical
- Increase of barley
- Religious
- against God's will
- Moral
- American's weren't allowed to drink alcohol whilst men were at war
- National mood
- Women
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