Jazz Age Notes From American Studies Rabourn
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Jazz Age Notes From American Studies Rabourn
Jazz Age
American Dream
American Dream
- Laissez Faire government
- Urban population grew and grew and eventually became larger than the rural population
- The invention of birth control created smaller families
- Mass production produced smaller families
- Were a sign of affluence
- Environmental hazard
- Caused demand for cheap foreign oil
- Provided worker benefits
- Raw materials were traded with other countries
- Business managers were trained
- Companies highlighted "spending for pleasure"
- Made Americans mass consumers
- Era of Hollywood, jazz bands
- Prohibition of alcohol failed
- Organized crime rose, like Al Capone in Chicago
- Scandals like the Teapot Dome Scandal
- Americans didn't want immigrants anymore (Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti)
- Blacks immigrated North for a better life but lived in segregated communities
- Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
- Struggle between fundamentalists and scientists
- Downfall of unions because corporations were providing worker benefits
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