The Roaring Twenties context

Question 1

What did it signify

Answer 1

Signifies the enermous pace of technological, economic and social change that took place in the wake of the first world war

Question 2

Enormous consumer consumption

Answer 2

• Twin introduction of the new labour saving home appliances and hire purchase or credit
• Enabled everday Americans to be able to invest in new tehchnologies in a way that would only previously be available to the upper class

Question 3

Henry Ford

Answer 3

• Cars, trains and planes already invented
• Notable for the invention of the Model T car his intro of the assembly line technique
• Enabled Ford to produce more cars that met deman more than other functions

Question 4

Prohibition

Answer 4

• Baned the sale and importing of alcohol but did not ban or criminalise its consumption
• The temperance movement -> influenced American politics, positioning alcohol as a gateway vice that enabled immoral behaviour, biolence and irresponsible parenthood

Question 5

Suffrage movement

Answer 5

• Significant period of transition in societal attitudes towards women and understanding of traditional gender roles
• Women able to vote in 1920
• African American and Native Americans were not allowed to vote

Question 6

1924 Immigration act

Answer 6

Prioritised white americans from West European counteries and prohibited immigrants from the asian continent

Question 7

Literary context

Answer 7

Lost Generation

• Modernist experimentation was heightened
• ee Cummings - reflects war experience in his work