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during the 1920's the average pay of industrial workers :
doubled
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Much of the extra income was
spent on consumer goods . This also helped buisness to boom . The supply of electricity became widespread and this led to the growth in the demand for electrical goods such as radios , vacuum cleaners , irons and refrigerators
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like cars , radios , vacuum cleaners , irons and refrigerators were
mass produced and so the price was kept low
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by 1929 ..... million homes had radios
10
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over ...... thousand people bought refrigerators. As more of these goods were sold , more jobs were created
900,000
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by 1929 more than ..... milion people owned shares
1
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there was a great deal of confidence in Anmerica at this time which meant that
buisnessmen were willing to invest in new products and new ideas and take risks
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The American public had the confidence to spen their money and buy goods on credit , which helped to
create more demand and fuel the upward spiral of prosperity . Many peopl thought the boom would continue indefinately
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for many people the 1920's were exciting years , often called the ....... ..... or the ..... ..... . after suffering the great war , many americans simply wanted to enjoy themselves . cheap motorcars and other consumer goods helped
- roaring twenties
- jazz age
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women gained fae greater ...... in the 1920's . they were given the right to vote in ....... . the boom years of the 1920's gave women greater ..... ..... . ...... .... freed women from many domestic chores . They were also starting ty hasve greater ..... freedom . During the war women had traditionally done jobs which had traditrionally belonged to ..... . Now they bagan to want the same freedom as men . Young women , ....... , rebelled against the ...... and ...... , which their parents tried to impose on them
- freedom
- 1920
- job opportunities
- household gadgets
- social
- men
- flappers
- fashions
- behaviour
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flappers
- cut their hair short
- wore makeup and short dresses
- smoked in public
- went tp parties and dances with men without chaperones
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there were many objections from the older people to the flappers and an
"anti-flirt league" was set up by worried mothers . However they failed to change their behaviour
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....... became a major industry in prosperous America
entertainment
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the film industry ..... .... , its centre being ......
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cinemas were built in ...... ..... to show the films
large numbers
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many dance halls were built as
new dances became increasingly popular
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also .... ..... , especially ....... , became popular . All these provided many new jobs
- spectator sports
- baseball
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the young were able to listen and dance to ne forms of music . ....... was the most popular music of the 19120's with usicans like .... ..... , ....... .... and ....... making big money out of nightclu performances and from records . ...... and ...... brought this music into American homes . new dances went with new music . the ...... , ..... .... , ..... .... and ..... replaced dances like the waltz
- jazz
- louis armstrong
- benny goodman
- fats waller
- radios
- charleston , black bottom , heebie jeebies , tango
- records
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in search for fun millions of people went in for
crazes
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crazes included
- mah-jong
- marathon dances
- there were also competitions to see how long people could sit on a flagpole
- shipwrech kelly was the champion , setting a record of 23 days sitting on a flag pole
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the 1920's was a golden age for sport . vast crowds would attend baseball matches , ...... tournaments and ..... contests . some of the greatest American sportsmen of all time including ....... .... in baseball and ...... .... in golf became famous in the 1920's
- golf
- boxing
- babe ruth
- bobby jones
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the greatest hero of this decade was
Charles Lindebergh
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why was Charles Lindebergh famous
because in 1927 he made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in a small one-engined plane called "spirit of st.louis"
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within a week Charles Lindebergh recieved ...... thousand telegrams and ...... .. ... letters . he was given a .....-.... welcome during a victory parade through new york , when ....... tonnes of paper fell on the streets along the route
- 75
- half a million
- ticker-tape
- 1,800
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the ....... was the most popular form of enertainment . performers like ..... .... , ...... .... and ...... ... became film stars
- cinema
- mary pickford
- douglas fairbanks
- rudolph valentino
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comedians like .... .... and ..... .... became household names . fan magazines and newspaper stories gave minute details their lives . their hairstyles and fashions were copied
- buston keaton
- charlie chaplin
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until 1927 films were ...... . In that year the first ever talking film came out called the ..... ..... . soon all films were .... and the popularity of the cinema increased .
- silent
- jazz singer
- talkies
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in 1927 ..... million people went to the cinema . by 1929 the number had increased to ...... million
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the film industry was not without critics . films were said to
encourage crime and to glamouriose violence . Others argued that the cinema was Americas greatest contribution to the arts
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define laissez faire
the republican belief that the government should let buisnesses grow without interference and without putting high tazes on buisnessmen
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define mass production
producing goods on a large scale , producing the quickly by usinng standardisation and an assembly line
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define standardisation
the methods that keeps the cost of making goods low by by keeping all the products of the same goods the same
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define consumer goods
goods that most people have
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define stock exchange
the place wehere stocks and shares are bought and sold
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define monopoly
a situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service . This means that the single company can operate without competition
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define trusts
a financial agreement in which an organisation looks after and invests money for somebody
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define sharecroppers
farm workers , who didnt get paid a wage , instead when the harves came in they got money from the harvest
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define chaperone
a person who accompanies and looks after another person
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define flappers
fashionable young women who were intent on enjoying themselves and flouting conventional stands of behaviour
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