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The cultural civil war
The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern countryside to Northern cities and increasing visibility of black culture-jazz and blues music. Millions of people joined the ku kulx klan. -
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Jazz Age
The 1920's is considered the Jazz Age because this was the time when Jazz music blossomed and became tremendously popular. It was a "golden age" for the genre. -
Prohibition
The Federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and salón in the USA, because of the 18th Amendment ratified in 1919. Drinking was a symbol of all they dislike about the modern city. -
New Woman
It was created the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, in where millions of woman worked in white-collar jobs and could afford to participate in the burgeoning consumer economy. -
Birth of Mass Culture
First Commercial radio station in USA, three years later there where more than 500 stations in the nation. -
The Great Depression
The stock market crash provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity. -
A New Deal for the American People
Many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what Franklin Roosevelt later called his "hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government" he promised a change to a New Deal for the American people. -
The First Hundred Days
During this period Roosevelt presented a series of initiatives to Congress designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression. -
Second New Deal
Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive set of federal programs, the Works Progress Administration provided jobs for unemployed people and built new public works like bridges, post offices, schools and parks. -
End of Depression
The New Deal had come to an end. Growing Congressional opposition made it difficult for president Roosevelt to introduce new programs.