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Changing Roles for Women
Women began to gain independence, access a higher education and achieve professional opportunities. They started to wear new clothing styles that expressed their identities. Many women cut their hair short, wore rounded hats with no brim and stopped wearing corsets. -
Radio Industry
Edwin Armstrong invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via long-range radio. A few years later the radio industry began to rise with many new broadcasting shows and viewers! -
Model T
Cars became a high demand item around the early 1900's and even more so in the 1920's. Cars allowed people to have greater mobility and freedom. The car let people live further out in the suburbs and commute to jobs in the city giving them better paying jobs. -
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
A case that showed the racism and fears of the era. On April 15, 1920, two men robbed and murdered two employees of a show factory in Massachusetts. This case created a furor when newspapers revealed that the two men were anarchists. -
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The Jazz Age
Inventions ran wild this decade coming out with neon signs, car radios, motels, zippers, electric razors, food disposals and so much more! -
Washington Conference
A meeting to discuss disarmament with Great Britain, France, Italy, China, Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal in Washington, D.C. This was a meeting to end the weapons race. -
Emergency Quota Act
Act restricted annual admission to the United States to only three percent of the total number of people in any ethnic group already living in the nation. -
Teapot Dome
An oil reserve scandal that began during the time President Harding was in power. In 1921, the President's secretary Albert B. Fall granted exclusive rights to Mammoh Oil Company to reserves at the Teapot Dome. He also gave rights to Pan American Petroleum Compant for the Buena Vista Hills and Elk Hills reserves. -
National Origins Act
Made immigration restriction a permanent policy. The law set quotas at 2 percent of each national group represented in the U.S. Census of 1890. -
Dawes Plan
Was an attempt for Germany to pay for the reparations after WWI. The Dawes Plan worked and the controls over Germany could be removed by 1929 and total reparations fixed. -
The Scopes Trial
Tennessee outlaws any teaching that denied or went against the story of Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible or taught that man descended from a lower order of animals. -
Mass Production
Companies began cutting workers hours and American's wages were also cut due to the large scale manufacturing work being done by machines. By using machines supply was increased and costs were reduced. Henry Ford cut the workweek for employees down from 6 days a week to 5. -
Technology
Electrical appliances changed life for the growing middle class. Refrigerators made it practical to buy larger quantities of food and vacuum cleaners make it quicker to clean. -
Entertainment
The first talking picture was produced and was the start of the golden age of Hollywood. A rise in mass culture and popular entertainment is what made the 1920's feel modern. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
United States and 14 other nations signed this pact hailing as a victory for peace. It did not hold any binding force but all signing nations agreed to abound war and to settle disputes
