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it was a time of start and some startling contrast American Life alcohol was outlawed chemical ballpark Charles Lindbergh of the Skies Jazz fill the air and the airwaves and just about everybody who could afford it went to the movies in the Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties has the reputation there's a Dickie play and prosperity low unemployment was low and many Americans were better off financially real wealth was concentrated among just a few families 60% of America's richest we're only only 2% of the people the 27,000 100 wealthiest families had as much money as the 12 million forest with the end when World War 1 what country wanted to return to but prices shut up or with the increased demand for goods and services while wages we're still low what band on raises and labor strikes during the war and now that the war had ended strikes over higher reaches resumed September 1990 Boston police walked off Patrol sighting lousy pay and long hours their subsequent absence Trigger 2 free for all the mutants and Bam turd City officials granted no negotiation the police force was replaced without the option to return that sing 343000 Steel Workers staged a nationwide strike only two Taste of violent two feet when substitute workers were high writing a rupted resulting in the mobilization of federal troops 18 Steel Workers lost their lives in the struggle the walkout lasted for months with no reward as Labour unrest spread across the country some Americans felt it was being fostered by feminists radical Zumba I'm getting Deacon Dominic and social system where Prosperity is owned by everyone had the needs of the whole are more important than those of the individual Richardson's grew increasingly suspicious of immigrants fearing they might be Communists this so-called Red Scare was it a high presidential election of 1919 and Ohio lieutenant governor Warren G Harding's campaign promise of a return to normalcy was what the country wanted to hear and believe  America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not Revolution but restoration  handsome good-natured and well-spoken Harding and his running mate open Coolidge of Massachusetts easily defeated the Democratic ticket of James Cox and Franklin D Roosevelt  Harding's proposal of a return to we'll see going back to pre Progressive Era policies he was opposed to the federal government interference in business Affairs and Moe's social reforms two rejected Woodrow Wilson's plan should actively participate in the League of Nations  we seek no part in directing the Destinies of the old world  Harding's isolationist policy keeping America out of world affairs was popular and his successors presidency what Coolidge and Herbert Hoover follow his lead for the decade Harding's cabinet was filled with pro-business appointees including Herbert Hoover the Commerce Committee Secretary of State and Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury  in 1923 shut it Congress his Milling plan which on the surface soda General reduction in income taxes in fact the plan cut the top income tax bracket levels from 50 per cent to 25 reducing the lowest bracket from 4% Congressman William a Coterie of Massachusetts was outraged and this bill which is going to save mr. melon himself 800 Frozen dollars on his income tax and his brothers $600,000 on his I cannot give it my support  nevertheless the Mellon plan passed as did his proposal to raise tariffs on imported goods to one of the highest levels in history Americans soon stop by foreign made products and that made it almost impossible for France and Great Britain to repay their War debts to the United States meanwhile Kateri of Commerce Hoover aggressively helped American businesses recover from the war effort while Secretary of State Hughes convince the leading world powers to reduce size of their navies  despite these recoveries at Harding's popularity by the end of his third year Scandal rocked his administration is old poker buddies from Ohio who made handed jobs in government or caught taking bribes Harding expressed his disappointment I have no trouble with my enemies but my friends they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights  the worst defense notorious Ohio gang involuntary of the Interior Albert Fall during the Progressive Era oil-rich public lands located Teapot Dome Wyoming and Outfield California we're set aside for use by the Navy for all transferred control of those lands to his in apartment and then secretly lease them to oil companies in exchange for $100,000 in fines cattle and cash by the summer of 1943 Harding now saddened confused and disillusioned by the Betrayal of his friends left washing for a Goodwill trip to Alaska upon his return to San Francisco he became ill and died on August 2nd Harding's Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumed office as simple honest and quiet man joked about his demeanor I have never been hurt by what I haven't said  silent Cal Coolidge was nicknamed was elected president one year later receiving 16 million votes and would have easily won a second term but unexpectedly decided not to run with Coolidge at the helm continuing Harding's pro-business policies it was boom times for the American economy over 40% of the world's wealth with 11,000 millionaires live in America by 1926  length of the construction of plants homes and off building sword by the end of the Era construction had begun on the moon with 102 story Empire State Building principle of millions of Americans learn to drive  at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties they were only eight million automobiles registered in the US by the end of the decade more than 23 million  Henry Ford made a bold prediction when I threw everyone will be able afford one enema everyone will have one  America's new love affair with the car spurred production of rubber steel glass and gasoline imovel America wanted New Roads new destinations and new places to live the suburbs Auto making became a major American industry to meet demand automakers perfected the assembly line method of manufacturing and the other Industries Scientific Management Champion by Frederick Taylor revolutionized American Business by find the most time efficient ways to complete a task and increase production we move weight of Technology Farmers adopted modern methods and for but with an entirely different result larger more efficient Farms utilizing more farm machinery than human labor is created and over section of farm Commodities many farmers in borrowed money to expand their farms and buy equipment when demand was high during war now rolling prices for Mini in the bankruptcy  congressman from Farm States unified as the van block and French supports and legislation to Aid Farmers repeatedly President Coolidge be told their attempts Farmers wish that song would just remain silent his remarks brought them little consolation well Farmers have never made much money I don't we can do much about it Urban workers were much better off than Farmers despite a decline in labor union membership average wages preached by a 20% increase in the number of homes with electricity between 1913 and 1947 the number grew by 465% moderately-priced electrical convenience is like vacuum cleaners washing machine Jen refrigerators we're funded more and more American households chain stores like Sears and JCPenney did a Brisk business ready-made clothes and grocery cafeterias like Piggly Wiggly the Forerunner of the modern Supermarket Longford everything from canned foods slice bread advertising learn consumers into the stores and readily available credit using the installment plan made buying these American suddenly found they had much more time for community and leisure activities telephones and leader radios in common and most middle-class homes mass transit street car is in Subway's provided Mobility for City dwellers and the airplane was used to move mail from coast to coast in 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane from the cut lucky Lindy's solo 3614 mile flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris and shared his place as Americas new hero for witness Charles Lindbergh's triumphant return To America with thousands of pounds of chicken fishing permitted at Broadway Lindbergh's flight also captured the imagination of the public and stirring their interest in flying I look forward to the day when transatlantic flying will be a regular thing soon the single-engine Lockheed Vega and the Ford tri-motor airplanes is many is 10 passengers and already mobile America became even more so  find me and the Roaring Twenties operating in the United States despite the economic boom times the Roaring Twenties was a period of great tension between Americans social racial and moral beliefs foot constantly being challenged  a fear of Communism socialism and Anarchy fuel by a distro Renny Fork led to one of the most notorious convictions and executions in American history to Italian immigrants maker Nicola Sacco and fishmonger bartolomeo Vanzetti were accused of robbing and killing a factory paymaster and a guard Sacco and study admitted to being anarchist's people who want to abolish all forms of government and being draft Dodgers during World War One however what was maintained they had not committed the crime  on the basis of circumstantial evidence Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and executed their guilt or innocence is still debated today guilty or not the case personified the fear Americans had immigrants some paranoid citizens immigrants took jobs rightfully belonging to American citizens others felt too many immigrants were political radicals between 1919 and 1921 the yearly number of new immigrants in Charlotte from 141000 to 805 and Congress bound to the pressure of Americans with nativist Attitudes by passing a new law limiting immigration into the US additional restrictions were imposed three years later when the National Origins Act of 1924 further limited immigration discriminate against people from eastern and southern Europe mostly Roman Catholics and Jews and excluded the immigration of Japanese citizens laws did not apply to immigrants from the Western Hemisphere however at approximately 1 million Mexicans the borders into the u.s. the increasing popularity of atavism also stirred the Resurgence of the Ku Klux whose members had tormented and killed many African Americans in the south after the Civil War extended their bigotry to anyone American not Protestant not white while attempting to Stamp Out you posted a membership of more than four million numbers the Imperial wizard of the KKK sound of the Clans doctor and succinctly it is 1946 put the Clans fight for americanism when he revealed the Klan slogan native white Protestant Supremacy although the KKK dominated certain State politics at times during the Roaring Twenties its popularity waned after Indiana Clan Chieftain DC Steve Stevenson was indicted and jailed for a brutal assault on a female assistant the resulting Scandal and his conviction or second-degree murder signal the decline of the Clans political influence and by the end of the decade call the hateful Ku Klux Klan was growing in popularity of peaceful separatist movement was gaining a large group of followers garveyism Marcus Garvey a Jamaican founded the universal negro Improvement Association in 1914 he moved his organization to New York and the mid-1920s there were more than half a million  the association held to Central bullets the first was that blacks return to Africa and build a homeland of their own Darby I'd even designed a uniform for himself as the provisional president of Africa second Garvey insisted his followers should not envy or imitate once or she could agration black is beautiful he declared and you are better than white people Garvey started to successful newspaper and the steamship company to help raise funds for the cause new ship company the Black Star failed he was convicted of mail fraud and sent to prison  only a handful of his followers actually reach do Africa but Marcus going to be is fundamental belief in the dignity and pride deserve by all African Americans certainly lives on The Roaring Twenties first time in American history when more people lived in cities and towns put in rural areas how Americans moving to cities from small villages had to add Donald me to new and challenging physical living conditions they encountered a new more permissive moral environment as well  two events spitting we demonstrate the clash between traditional moral values of a country and the modern mores of the city the Scopes trial and prohibition in 1925 the state of Tennessee passed a law that outlawed any teaching of English biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution Darwin's book The Origin of Species challenge contemporary beliefs about creation and outraged fundamentalist Christians interpretation of the Bible believing God created the universe in six days John Scopes for high school biology teacher from Dayton Tennessee believe Darwin was right and despite the state law taught his students the theory of evolution Evolution statue that went to trial for the misdemeanor the decade the most renowned trial lawyer of the day Clarence Darrow to defend Scopes the prosecutor was equally well-known Tim Jennings Bryan a three-time candidate for president skilled orator and fundamentalist Christian  the Press had a field and called it the Monkey Trial as the big city reporters repeatedly made fun of values Darrow defended his stance we have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling education of the United States and you know it and that is all found John Scopes guilty of violating the state's law many felt that Clarence Darrow had actually won the case because he had managed to get William Jennings Bryan to admit on the stand that he did not actually believe the Earth was created in 6 24 hour days the Tennessee Supreme Court return the verdict on a technicality but the debate over teaching the theory of evolution in schools still continues Americans with conservative Traditional Values succeeded in convincing Congress to prohibit the sale and use of alcohol quotation the noble experiment is Herbert Hoover dubbed it simply didn't work on January 16th 1920 18th the Constitution was passed out in the manufacture sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages the amendment was supported why rural Americans from the south and some point to believe drinking to BSN urban city dwellers generally saw drinking as a natural part of life Chevelle cohol  Evangelist Billy Sunday spoke for many prohibitionists every man who can is desserts that his son shall die a drunkard or that his daughter should be consigned to The Tender Mercies of a drunken husband  tell me something got his wish when will it be should be rainbow lava lamp but did not stop people from drinking alcohol speakeasies 3 smuggled in by Lakers from Canada organized crime which provided illegal booze or Hooch flourished and probation war crimes not less 13 years later the noble experiment was over Roaring Twenties are often called The Jazz Age time with new forms of art like jazz and words with a distinctly American player and a war Literature Like Ernest Hemingway's the Sun so Rises with Americans as did the writing of F Scott Fitzgerald success Sinclair Lewis examined the realities of life in small-town America on the stage breaking playwrights like Eugene O'Neill artist O'Keeffe depicted life in urban America in the twenties know where was America's you miss more ever the music from George gershwin's instant success with Rhapsody In Blue and Concerto in F to the phenomenal growth of American Musical jazz jazz was born in New Orleans in the early part of the century a blend of the Blues and ragtime migrating African Americans brought this new music to the north a great many settling in the Upper West Side of New York City getting area code Harlem Harlem became the center not only for jazz it became the heart of African American creativity during the Harlem Renaissance poets Langston Hughes two performers like Duke Ellington the songstress Bessie Smith was sold a million recordings of downhearted Blues by 19 Smith was the highest paid African-American performer in the world singer dancer comedian Josephine Baker on the other hand shows we have been working Paris spreading the influence of the Harlem Renaissance women found pleasure and listening to the radio Antrim NH radio became their main source of news about the world Americans were also leaving their homes to find new entertainment the Beast 1925 film making it become the nation's largest industry and the Ramones houses Nationwide women also saw a new image of merge for them in the Roaring Twenties having finally gotten the right to vote with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution emancipated women throughout their corsets shoes and doll floor-length dresses add more short skirts a woman of the Roaring 20s also had new choices she didn't necessarily have to be a housewife anymore instead children's body to marry at all have children go to work or build a career marriage became more of a romantic choice play was not prevalent in the workforce with women usually earning much less than men even when they perform the same job medical schools when so far is Twin was strict quotas on the number of women allowed to enter Americans were also reading reading newspapers by the mid many enjoying tabloids and magazines did featuring Sensational stories about gangsters and entertainers by the end of the decade 10 you said circulations of more than two million literacy was on the rise the number of people attending High School M14 and high school was no longer just for college-bound students Americans also discovered the pleasures of watching professionals baseball's Leroy Satchel Paige the boxing's Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey  entertainment of all kinds import of a legacy of the Roaring Twenties has American over 4.5 billion dollars on entertainment some of those pants like flagpole sitting or dance marathons almost adolescent America finally free of the fear and drudgery of War are how most people view the Roaring Twenties that in fact it was brief period of relative Prosperity unfortunately despite the outward appearance and stability the American economy was promptly and delete 1929 would be brought to its knees by the start of the Great Depression  but until stock market crashed the twenties were indeed roaring 8 a.m.

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