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 * __ Roaring Twenties __**

The Roaring Twenties, sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age was a time of change for everyone. This was the first time more people lived in cities than on farms. The United States went on an economic roller coaster during this time. Having a brief recession after the war, the U.S. economy took off and prospered like never before. The economic boom gave more people money and opportunities. The people in the 1920’s had a higher standard of living. There was a strong demand for consumer products, like radios, house-hold items, and automobiles. A lot of this modernization came from the so America’s as they say Second Industrial Revolution, it began in the turn of the century. During this time, electricity, and more advanced machinery made factories twice as efficient as they were using steam power in the 1800’s. Henry Ford also perfected the assembly-line, which made factories able to produce large quantities of new technologies . The automobile changed the lives of people; it affected the way people traveled. Most importantly it allowed people to leave the inner cities and live elsewhere without changing jobs. More people started buying houses in residential communities and this how suburbs starting growing. Aviation started to take off quickly after the Wright Brother’s first powered flight happened in 1903. Airplanes started becoming a major part of American life. Several passenger airline companies came to life and allowed richer citizens to travel across the country in hours rather than days or weeks. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across from New York to Paris in his single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. His achievement gave a big boost to the thriving aviation industry. The Hollywood motion picture industry started to emerge. Movies weren’t new to Americans, because silent pictures were popular. The first “talkies” started during this time, it brought actors voices into theaters and it but the moviemaking business into action. In conclusion, the Roaring Twenties was a time about experimentation and innovations, so all of these inventions have had trials and errors.



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Employed Workers lived in Homes that provided one room per person. They enjoyed electricity, inside running water, central heating, and indoor plumbing; they lived on minimum wage while working industrial manufacturing jobs such as car manufacturing, Textile production, etc. **__Middle Class__**: Jobs were plentiful–unemployment is estimated to have been below 5% for the entire decade. And people were working fewer hours, one quarter of American families owned a car in 1920 but half of all families did by 1930. Same with indoor plumbing: at the beginning of the decade, two out of ten American homes had flush toilets; by the end of the decade, half did. Vacuum cleaners–a miracle invention–started to penetrate middle class homes, along with a few other electric appliances, such as toasters. 
 * __ Lower Class: __**

**__Upper__**: Rich lived lavishly, threw parties and dances, dined out in expensive restaurants, drove the latest cars, lived in Mansions, and owned several businesses.



__Males__: Both in white collar and blue-collar jobs.Doctors, clergy, cooks, soldiers, miners, barber, and automatics/assembly works with ford. Men had worn some variation on three-piece suits. Upper-class men in particular had been very formal, changing clothes several times a day as propriety dictated. The war changed attitudes and did much to level the classes, which reflected in fashion. Younger men, in a switch from wearing the clothes of their elders, adopted a look all their own with baggy plus fours and wide-legged trousers. Suits were simpler, with just slim, padded jackets over the trousers, and fabrics and colors were lighter and brighter than anyone had seen in years, reflecting the brightness of the music, theater and good times. __**Men's Fashion**__: Upper: Middle: Lower: 

In the 1920’s women were mainly seen as homemakers, if they would work it will be only until they were married. They were also granted the right to vote because of their war efforts and they took over the men’s jobs when they went to war. A booming economy opened up new roles for women in the workplace. Women didn't campaign for higher wages because they were more seen as housewives, but if they would have they would of got it at the same time as they got the right to vote. The new woman of the 1920’s were known as flappers. They had short hair, short skirts and who drank, smoked and did "unladylike" things. There were new machines and technologies, such as the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner that eliminated some of the hard household work.
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__ Essential Question __ Why are the benefits and drawbacks of experimentation in our society generally and in our lives more specifically?

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