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1920’s culture

Sierra Cook Research Paper U.S. history Mrs. Cleveland's 6 th period December 10, 2012 . 1920’s culture . What all got big in the 1920s? Who was a big person in organized crime?. The jazz Age or the Roaring 20’s . Phonograph .

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1920’s culture

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  1. Sierra Cook Research Paper U.S. history Mrs. Cleveland's 6th period December 10, 2012 1920’s culture

  2. What all got big in the 1920s? Who was a big person in organized crime? The jazz Ageorthe Roaring 20’s

  3. Phonograph • Was a common device for playing sounds starting in the 1870’s • Reached it peak in the 20’s • Had to be hand cranked every 3 or 4 records • 110-125$

  4. Radio • Guglielmo Marconi, Owen Young, Ed Nally Jr. • Roughly 3 million americans owed a radio by 1923 • began being used for the promotion of newspapers • Powerful communications • The Americans knew things faster than before

  5. Automobile • Henry Ford • Model-T, 1927 • New way of Transportation

  6. flapper • The term first appeared in Great Britain after World War I. It was there used to describe young girls, still somewhat awkward in movement who had not yet entered womanhood • Short hair • Knee length or shorter skirts • Smoking/drinking

  7. Birth control • Margaret Sanger • Opened up birth control clinics • Women were able to keep their jobs or even get raises or promoted

  8. Prohibition • 18th amendment • Illegal to sell/make alcohol • Speakeasies/ bootleggers • Hidden saloons-speakeasies • Smuggled in alcohol in-bootleggers

  9. Organized crime • Prohibition helped with the growth of organized crime • Al capone • Chacigo • Bootlegger/pimp • Made at least 60 million a year alone • Killed off his competition • 1931 sent to prison for tax-evasion

  10. Sports • Baseball • Babe ruth • Boxing • Jack dempsey • Soccer • Golf • Horse derbys

  11. Sources • http://www.enotes.com/1920-media-american-decades/phonograph-records • http://www.radioblvd.com/20sRadio.html • http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm • http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5082/ • http://iantyrrell.wordpress.com/alcohol-prohibition-in-the-usa/ • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1596.html • http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/sephirothbadazz/Reports/sports.html

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