Part 2: US Society in the 1920s
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| The nation’s total wealth | More than doubled between 1920 and 1929. |
| The 1920s were an age of | Dramatic social and political change |
| Americans had extra money to spend, | And they spent it on consumer goods. |
| Consumer goods: | Examples included, ready-to-wear clothes, home appliances like electric refrigerators and cars. |
| In 1924 | The Ford Model T cost just $260. |
| In 1929 there was | One car on the road for every five Americans. |
| There were many features of the roaring 1920s. These included: | Town vs. country, Entertainment, Radio, Jazz, Cinema and the Car. |
| 1920 | Saw more Americans living in cities than in the countryside. |
| People in the countryside thought of city dwellers as, | Atheists, drunks and criminals. |
| The term ‘Roaring Twenties’ is particularly associated with | Entertainment and changing morality during the 1920s |
| The average working week dropped from 47.4 | To 44.2 hours |
| Average wages rose by | 11 per cent |
| In August 1921 there was only one licensed radio station in America. | By the end of 1922 there were 508 of them. |
| The 1920s became known as | The Jazz Age. |
| Older generations saw jazz | As a corrupting influence on the young people of the USA. |
| During the 1920s movies became | A multi-billion dollar business |
| The cost of a movie ticket was | Between 10 and 20 cents |
| Theda Bara, Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino | Were all major movie stars in the 1920s |
| The term 'melting pot' means | A place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together. |
| The term ‘Great Migration’ refers to | Former black southern slaves moving to the Northern cities of America |
| WASPs | White Anglo Saxon Protestants |
| Modernism | A movement towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas |
| An example of a modernist rural urban divide in America during the 1920s | Charles Darwin's theory of evolution |
| Karl Marx’s suggestion that individuals were motivated by economics | Was a key point in the progressive modernist mindset. |
| Religious fundamentalism | A form of a religion, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. |
| The majority of people were becoming less religious in the 1920s, but | Those that did attend Church were becoming more radical. |
| In 1919 approximately | 110,000 people immigrated to the U.S. |
| In 1920 approximately | 430,000 people immigrated to the U.S |
| In 1921 approximately | 800,000 people immigrated to the U.S |
| In 1921 Congress passed | The Emergency Quota Act |
| The Emergency Quota Act | Limited immigration to 3% of the number of immigrants from that country already living in the United States as defined by the census of 1910. |
| In 1924 Congress adjusted the quota system | So it was based on the census of 1890 when few southern Europeans had arrived. |
| Figures from the 1920s showed that | 58.5% of the population had white parents |
| Literacy tests: 1917 | Created a “barred zone” extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia |
| The National Origins Act, 1924: | Reduced the maximum number of immigrants to 150,000 per year and cut the quota to 2 per cent, based on the population of the USA in 1890. |