Roaring twenties
By Riley Regnier
The Roaring Twenties
The roaring twenties was an economic boom period that had a positive effect on the daily lives of many ( but not all Americans ). New technologies such as the automobile, airplanes, radios, and new appliances improved people's lives. However, some such as sharecroppers, farmers, and underpaid factory workers were not able to to enjoy the rising standard of living.
Factory
This is an image of a factory producing radios.
Radio
This is an image of a the new technology, the radio.
Sharecropper
This image is a sharecropper working on a farm.
Prohibition
Prohibition is the complete ban on the sale of alcohol.
These are three effects of prohibition
Poison
People tried to make their own alcohol. They did not make it right , creating a poison.
Bootlegger
Bootleggers brought alcohol into the United States of America, from other countries.
Jazz
Jazz music
Jazz music was a music genre that was based on syncopated rhythms, blue notes and improvisation.
Lyrics
These are the lyrics to the song What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong
Louis was a very famous jazz musicians in the 1920's.
Jelly Roll Morton
Morton was a jazz musician in the 1920' s.
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920 giving all women the right to vote. It was a result of the contributions women made during the Great War.
Harlem Renissance
Harlem Renissance
The Harlem Renissance was cultural movement in the United States that spanned in the 1920's and 1930's. Many black artist moved to Harlem, New York, to use writing, and painting to share ideas or feelings about life, and baking African American, and about ending discrimination.
Many musicians
Many musicians moved to Harlem to share their Ideas and stand up for what they believed in.
Louis
Louis Armstrong moved to Harlem and became famous.
Lyrics
These are the lyrics to Louis Armstrong's song what a wonderful world.
Who invented the first radio?
Guglielmo Marconi invented the first radio. The radio helped Americans communicate and entertain.
Mass media
Mass media are public forms of communication that reach large audiences. Once almost everyone had a radio business slowed. Companies began Tories money buy selling air time to other companies to advertise their products.
The radio
The radio helped improve American culture by letting Americans communicat and entertain.
Radio
This is a picture of a family sitting around the radio.
Radio
This is a picture of the first radio.