THE ROARING TWENTIES

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THE ROARING TWENTIES
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Automobile

• Assembly Line
• Model T (295)
• 40-45 mph
• Related Industries
• Development of Suburbia
• Skyscraper

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The Consumer Revolution

• The Radio
• Woolworth's Piggly Wiggly Supermarkets
• Supplied identical goods at identical prices
• Mass produced clothing

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A Decade of Change

• 1920 census
• The Movies
• Daylight Savings Time
• New inventions
• Communications
• Transportation
• Recreation

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The Dry--And Deadly--Decade

• Eighteenth Amendment
• Bathtub gin
• "Hello, suckers
• Urban gangsters

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A Time for Heroes

• Lucky Lindy
• Richard Byrd
• Amelia Earhart
• Henry Ford

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Organized Crime

• Golden Age
• Tommygun
• Capone gang
• Folk heroes
• Bootlegging Racketeering

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Hollywood

• Dusty California crossroads
• 80 go to the movies
• "Little Tramp
• "You ain't heard nothing yet.

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SPORTS

• Sultan of Swat
• Red Grange
• The New Kid from Dixie"
• The Fighting Marine
• Jack Dempsey
• Man O' War

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Industry

• Route 66
• Electricity
• Marketing Changes
• Modern Advertising Industry
• The Use of Psychology

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Social Changes

• Life Expectancy
• High School Diploma
• 75 Pounds
• Thin was in
• "Diet and Health
• Rural Isolation
• Labor saving devices
• Reliable Contraceptives
• Ads

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FUN FACTS

• 106,521,537 people in the United States 
• 2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2 
• Life expectancy  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6 
• 343,000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in
  1919) 
• Average annual earnings 1236 
• Teacher's salary  970 
• Dow Jones High 100  Low 67  
• Illiteracy rate (6)
• Gangland crime
• 13 days to reach California from New York 

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Terminology

• Slang
• Be on the nut
• Big Cheese, Big Shot
• Chick
• Flophouse
• Junkie
• Lettuce
• Tea