Roaring 20s

Question 1

What are the “Boom Years”? /6

Answer 1

Mid 1920s

Production is HIGH

Road and house construction

Consumption is HIGH

Unemployment was LOW (1927 under 3%)

By the late 1920s, US was the richest country

Question 2

What caused the Boom Years? /3

Answer 2

War time manufacturing

Advertising + Credit

New products

Question 3

How did wartime manufacturing one of the causes of the Boom Years? /2

Answer 3

U.S firms made profits selling weapons to the allies

Factory production increases due to manufacturing of weapons and sending soldiers as support = PROFIT

Question 4

How did advertising + credit one of the causes of the Boom Years? /2

Answer 4

Credit is HUGE: introduced in the 1920s

Allows those who could not afford it right away actually buy it, BUT can lead one into debt = owe money

Question 5

How is migration in the 1920s? /3

Answer 5

Urbanization is accelerating

More North Americans live in cities than in rural areas

Immigration: limited from Europe and Asia

Question 6

What is the 1920s lifestyle? /4(13)

Answer 6

Product and appliances

People are more mobile, possible for people to move either to the cites or the country side

Young people found freedom in: LACK OF RULES

• Jazz
• Ragtime
• Dancing
• Smoking
• Motoring
• Cinema

Influence from Hollywood film stars:

• Way people dressed
• Perfume women used
• How men combed their hair or wore a moustache

Question 7

What is prohibition in the 1920s? /5

Answer 7

The 18th Amendement to the US Constitution

The manufacturing, sale or transformation of alcohol is prohibited

The age of speakeasies and bootleggers

Protection rackets: mob and gang warfare

Corruption

Question 8

Why did women fight for the prohibition of alcohol? /2(3)

Answer 8

Wages/pay checks men earn is spent on buying alcohol instead of supporting the family

Men can become abusive and offer I’ll-treatment (rape, assault) to their partners
|-> Women don’t have the right to divorce, so they must suffer that consequence

Question 9

What are women temperance unions?

Answer 9

Women who fight for the ban of alcohol

Question 10

What are speakeasies? /2

Answer 10

Underground club/bars that sell alcohol (illegal)

Only accessible through knowing a code

Question 11

What are bootleggers? /2

Answer 11

People who smuggle alcohol

Term used for people who hide alcohol flasks (hence the curve) in their boots

Question 12

Why was alcohol prohibition corrupted?

Answer 12

Law enforcement officers involved in trade bribed local governments to stay open

Question 13

Why did alcohol prohibition fail? /4

Answer 13

Not enough money spent on enforcing the law

Officers weren’t paid much, so they were bribed to avoid arresting bootleggers

People still want to drink alcohol

Alcohol was a sign of masculinity

Question 14

What is a consequence of the 1920s alcohol prohibition?

Answer 14

Black market explodes

Question 15

Why did alcohol become a concern in the 1920s? /2

Answer 15

People started drinking (hard) liquor

Results in incapitation

Question 16

What is the 1920s leisure industry? /4

Answer 16

Invention of new forms of entertainment

Radio changed everyday life as much as the automobile

Brough entertainment into the household

Conflict between cinema and at-home entertainment

Question 17

What was the conflict between cinema and at-home entertainment?

Answer 17

Cinema managers complained were staying at home than going out to the movies

Question 18

What did film producers introduce to counter at-home entertainment?

Answer 18

Bring in the first “talkies” (movies with sound and dialogue) in 1927

Question 19

Is conflict between the cinema and at-home entertainment a continuity? /2

Answer 19

Yes.

Cinema managers continue to receive a decrease in sales due to platforms like Netflix, Crave, Amazon Prime, Disney+, etc

Question 20

How did women change in the 1920s lifestyle? /7

Answer 20

Wore lighter clothes that were easier to move in —garçonne look

No more petticoats

Smoke/drank/danced/VOTED

Cut their hair

Wore makeup

Wine to party often

First birth control clinics open in NYC (shut down multiple times)

Question 21

Who is Margaret Sanger?

Answer 21

Argued women should have control over how many kids they have

Question 22

What is the Harlem Renaissance? /3

Answer 22

An intellectual/social/artistic Mecca in the 1920s

Focus in redefining and celebrating the black experience in America

Langston Hughes: a black poet

Question 23

What are Jim Crow laws? /3

Answer 23

Jim Crow: popular character in theatre

Segregation between the black and white population

Normal in the South Segregation in schools/transportation/housing/public spaces

Question 24

What are the consequences of the Jim Crow laws? /5

Answer 24

No access to the professions
|-> professions limited: can’t be a doctor, lawyer, etc

No vote (changed and evaluated)

Lynchings still occurs in the 1920s

In Canada, discrimination in hotels/restaurants/public spaces

Klu klux klan also get involved in Montreal, BC, Manitoba and Saskatchewan

Question 25

What are lynchings? /2

Answer 25

People who take the law into their own hands

Klu klux klan is an example of this

Question 26

Who did not experience the Roaring 20s in the 1920s? /2

Answer 26

Farmers

Small businesses

Question 27

Why did farmers not experience the Roaring 20s in the 1920s? /3

Answer 27

Agriculture became a struggle (consequence of WWI)

Demand decreased following WWI, results in prices to fall

Demand is low, but production is still high

Question 28

Why did small businesses not experience the Roaring 20s in the 1920s? /2

Answer 28

Small businesses fail as huge corporations grow and expand

Wages were fine, but not high

Question 29

What problems started appearing near the mid 1920s? /2

Answer 29

Construction industry begins to decrease

By 1929, 80% of Americans were living close to subsistence

Subsistence: survival, nothing more