Chapter 33 – Early 20th Century

***New Technologies improve urban living and a modern mass culture emerges. Reforms in Public education raise literacy rates; African Americans work to end legal discrimination. Advances in science and technology help solve Urban problems, including overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and death***

The beginning of the twentieth century brought with it relative peace and growth of economies throughout the world. New technological developments such as airplanes, radio, cinema, and automobiles were created during this time frame. Europe’s powerful countries consolidated in their colonial conquests from earlier decades that balanced their alliances. However, after only a few decades into the twentieth century multiple tensions between the great powers surfaced. These tensions caused the great powers to separate into different alliances and eventually lead to the Great War.

Throughout a decade you will have several years that will have a certain title. They get their titles by how they affected the future. The 20’s will always be known as the roaring 20’s because it was a time where the culture started to embrace freedom. The general public considers the 1920’s to have been a good time for most Americans and I agree with this assessment of the time period for multiple reasons. The Roaring 20’s was a good time because of a new economic era, new women’s roles, and prohibition.

Which time period turned out as thriving as the 1920s? The Roaring Twenties was a time of great opulence and new innovations. Consumer goods, modern technology, American industries, businesses, food sources, and job statistics soared while populations expanded. New inventions made affluent lifestyles evolve while economic expansion brought many more events throughout the 1920s making it an inventive one.

B.  Justify your choice of the two most significant social and/or political changes that occurred as a result of the actions of one individual from the following list of United States leaders:

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Of all the time periods I could choose from, I would choose to be born into the roaring 20’s. The roaring 20’s were a post world war era associated with an economic boom in the United States, and that subsequent wealth led to a time when society changed in such a way as to correlate with the massive changes occurring in the US. Even though this wealth couldn't last forever, as shown through the Great Depression which began in 1929, the country itself underwent advances that forever changed the course of its history. Teen girls began to rebel against what was considered proper society by following new, up and coming fashion trends that showed more skin than their parents could handle, causing a domino effect of rebellious children and

Something about the American mindset tends to make heroes out of criminals. From criminals like Jesse James all the way to Al Capone, despite the wishes of our law enforcement and government, infamous criminals fascinate the public mind. The oddity of the American psychology, that has mixed organized crime into American culture, is amazing (Nash). The unique qualities of the Roaring Twenties really make it stand out in our history. The most interesting points being; the role of organized crime and growth of gangs, major scandals involved with the gang, and the most famed gangster in arguably history, Al Capone.

Clashing Cultures was a time when Prohibition and Immigration created cultural tensions between science, religion, and race. The Ku Klux Klan and the Scopes Trial were big events during this time period.

The Thundering Twenties was about making new patterns, new flexibilities, and breaking the custom of 10 years. Womanhood was being reclassified, music was experiencing an advancement, and new creations were changing everyday life. While a large portion of the 1920s were energizing circumstances, it too accompanied a few defeats. It begun with having a vehicle stopped in each garage, watching baseball saint Angel Ruth in the ballpark, moving dangerous to the Charleston, tuning in to the hints of the Louis Armstrong, watching and perusing The Incomparable Gatsby, the women smoking and drinking at dull, the share trading system crash that prompt The Incomparable Wretchedness, and the denial of liquor. The break from convention implied the beliefs

In the 1930s to the early 1940s, there was WWII. Many people, Jews, Germans, and other kinds of people, had to go into hiding. Some had to live under very serious conditions, and some lived under very good conditions. This essay will talk about what you would do if you had to go into hiding and had to prepare. The topics of this essay will be about what kind of equipment you would have to make a safe place if you were to hide, what you would need for hiding, and what you would have to worry about.

MULTIPLE CHOICE.  Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Throughout the mid-1800s-1900,Industrial and business leaders have aggrandize. With new technology and innovations that have changed the face of America. The time period is made to be the Giled age because of the captain of Industry,they controlled large corporations,earn big money,and dominated politics while the rest of the age was set to corruption. The Industrial and business leaders were robber barons because of the use of monopoly tactics to run out their competition, the way they treated their workers and their contribution to

After World War I, the general population began to accept society as it was, throwing out most Progressive Era ideals. This caused an extremely eventful time period. The economy was booming again, and many modern inventions and amenities such as cars and washing machines were purchased by middle class families. The 20s also had a distinctive cultural difference between the previous eras, giving the 20s a more modern feel, with its own celebrities and technology. However, some qualms included Prohibition, which caused a lot of crime, and modern culture contradicting deeply held religious and traditional beliefs, mostly pertaining to women, scientific research, and minorities. The 20s was a significant and eventful period for

The first half of the 19th century was a time of sweeping changes. With transportation, and factories increasing, North America was in for a major upgrade. While all of those things are going on, the two regions that made up the growing nation was the North and South. These two sides were very different in their approach of lifestyle which would soon lead to conflicts. Two issues stood out more than others as the North and South headed towards civil war. One reason increase of tariffs and taxes the Congress placed on the south to ship goods to other countries. The other was the idea of keeping slavery in the country. The tariffs placed economic inequality between the northern states and the southern states.