HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Blue Duck, Langston Hughes, Equal Rights Amendment
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1920 america i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. Last class we ended off talking about the red scare. The 1920 election republicans promised return to normalcy the win the last time they won was 1912. President coolage quotes a man who builds a factory builds a temple the buis of the us is business that is our job. Business is a big part of america creating ,asaive eco growth though it dosnt last. It is nick named the jazz age highest levels of prosperity thus forth rise o0f hollywood boirth of new woman age of mass cpnsumption advertising etc = modernity. The econbmy does well in 1920s arg sector is lagging industrial sector is coming along. Brief recissiojn im 1921 then spike in up until 1929. Unemployment is low at this time (there were enough jobs) lowest it gets is 1. 8% The largest single manufacturing industrie in the 1920 us.