Notes
-Jazz was seen as a mainly "black" type of music
-Listened to music on radio
-Silent films started
-Dance halls
-Charlie Chaplin became famous from the silent films
-Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindebergh
-Baseball became huge (Babe Ruth)
-Disney
-Football
-Driving
-Prohibition 1920-1933
-Rum Running
-Creation of mobs and gangs
-The Volstead Act
-Jazz was seen as a mainly "black" type of music
-Listened to music on radio
-Silent films started
-Dance halls
-Charlie Chaplin became famous from the silent films
-Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindebergh
-Baseball became huge (Babe Ruth)
-Disney
-Football
-Driving
-Prohibition 1920-1933
-Rum Running
-Creation of mobs and gangs
-The Volstead Act
Summary
The 1920s is a time when America begins to define their culture that we know today. The birth of Major League Baseball and the emersion the American cinema are all examples of the amazing things started in this time period. However along with this progression came the prohibition of alcohol. This would later lead to the start of car racing.
Quotes
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Subjunctive Question
Would American culture be defined differently if alcohol was legal in the 1920s?
The 1920s is a time when America begins to define their culture that we know today. The birth of Major League Baseball and the emersion the American cinema are all examples of the amazing things started in this time period. However along with this progression came the prohibition of alcohol. This would later lead to the start of car racing.
Quotes
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Subjunctive Question
Would American culture be defined differently if alcohol was legal in the 1920s?