History - 1920s

Question 1

Positives (6)

Answer 1

• women gained more freedom
• mass production
• more jobs
• cultural change - jazz music, dance, expressions through art
• no cares
• by 1929 - one car to every 5 American

Question 2

Negatives (9)

Answer 2

• little gains for rural workers
• African Americans suffered from poverty and discrimination
• cost of living doubled in two years
• soldiers who returned from war were unemployed
• striking led to pay being led to pay being violently reduced
• Ku Klux Klan (radicals who hated African Americans and migrants) grew in the 1920s
• race riots
• one attempt to take US by communists
• strong social divisions in Europe after war