History project

“Age of Wonderful Nonsense”

This time period was considered as a very exciting period of time.

The economy was successful and plus there was a lot of changes to the society and culture itself

They face new styles of dancing/fashion, had new improvements in technology, and faced a lot of new laws.

Technology

Examples of the new technology:

Model T Radio  Children Toys Canned Food Band-Aid Audiometer Instant Camera Moviola Jukebox First Movie with sound: “The Jazz

Singer” Charles A. Lindbergh`s

pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean

The Industrial Revolution gave people higher expectations for improving their living. The 1920s also introduced the use of machinery which in the end increased productivity, also was decreasing demand for laborers.

Women's Rights

The 19th amendment finally passed which allowed woman to vote.

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920

Could join the workforce National American Woman Suffrage Association

Sports They wanted something new to enjoy life after the war so

they came up with new sports, and sports ended up being the breakout decade for the 1920s

People from other countries would travel to America for sports

Baseball was very popular during this age. The most popular American athlete of the 1920s was baseball player

Babe Ruth.

Fashion Men's fashion became more youthful but women's fashion

changed much more drastically. Men wore more suits, and nice shoes. Women’s fashion was known as “flapper” style. Woman started to dress differently after they had more

freedom.

Urbanization Workers move to big cities to find better economic

opportunities. People started to live in cities, or in smalls towns.

Rich people lived in the city. Middle Classed people lived in suburbs. Poor people lived in back alleys, and or courtyards.

Harlem Renaissance

Introduced African American’s Culture. Dancing, Music, Art, and literature

African Americans demanded equality They moved to Harlem to get jobs since they were

unemployed due to the Civil War Worked a lot and ended up changing people’s views on

their race because of how much they worked and helped out.

Clubs/Music Dance clubs became popular in this time period Harlem played a key role in the development of

dance styles Music was improvised to be better so they could

dance to it Jazz became the most popular form of music for

young people and the flapper culture

Prohibition Made illegal the manufacture, import and sale of beer, wine

and hard liquor Woman were mostly behind this because they wanted to

stop being abused by their husbands Gangsters would hire men to smuggle/hijack in rum from

Canada and bring it into the U.S Al Capone was one of the most famous gangsters

Work Cited http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1920s.html http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_roaring_20s http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html