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1920s Floor Show __ A look at the 1920s focusing on the United States, including fads, fashions, flappers, and films. - illustrated - From jazzbabies.com - http://www.jazzbabies.com/flash/index.html
1920s Timeline __ You will find a year-by-year account of one of the great eras in American culture. - From greenepa.net/Planet Doom - http://www.greenepa.net/~barondin/library/
The Advertising of Installment Plans During the 1920s __ "After several decades of urbanization and industrialization, post- World War I America was marked by a rapid increase in the availability of mass-produced commodities. For the growing middle-class population, the twentieth century American dream had become based on the acquisition and consumption of this rising tide of commodities." Learn how this leads in to the encouraging of consumer debt. - From University of Virginia - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH37/Murphy.html
American Cultural History - Decade 1920-1929 __ You will find articles about fads, culture demographics plus galleries and links to numerous resources about this period in American history. - illustrated - From Kingwood College Library - http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html
Boom and Bust, 1921-1933 __ Learn about Prohibition and the stock market crash.
Many resources in lesson plan format. - From eduref.org -
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec5/Unit_09/index.html
Coolidge welcomes Lindbergh Home __ "President Calvin Coolidge delivers a speech
to honor him and his achievement. Up until May 1927, no human being had ever
crossed the great divide that separates the North American and European
continents in an airplane non-stop. Charles Lindbergh was the first to do it!
Though today the span is traversed countless times every day, Lindbergh stands
tall as one of the heroes of aviation!" You will find text and sound clips of
the speech. - illustrated - From btinternet.com -
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/coollind.htm
The Crash of 1929 __ "The crash of 1929 continues to be a fascinating example of
panic in high finance and is still a staple of Economics 101. This event
involved all people, big and small, rich and poor, young and old. Everyone." A
brief look at the event and what followed. - From btinternet.com -
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/thecrash.htm
The Ku Klux Klan In the 1920s (and In Other Times) __ Read about a terrorist
organization, mainly located in the U.S. South, run by white people in order to
terrorize African Americans. It was founded and became quite active in the
decades following the Civil War, but became more of a political and cultural
force in the 1920s. - From spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk -
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm
The Lawless Decade __ From bootleg gin to Babe Ruth, you will find most all of
it right here. - illustrated - From paulsann.org -
http://www.paulsann.org/thelawlessdecade/index-2.htm
Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 __ "At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles
Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the
dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane
bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airborne and barely cleared the
telephone wires at the field's edge." The rest is, of course, history. -
illustrated - From eyewitnesstohistory.com -
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lindbergh.htm
Media History Timeline: 1920s __ This site lists the important events in the
various media such as publishing, newspapers, musical performance, etc. - From
University of Minnesota. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1920s.html
The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925 - July 25, 1925 __ The trial that
pitted creationism against science is presented here, including a "Reporter's
Memo." - illustrated - From University of Virginia -
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html
St Valentine's Day Massacre __ "With the age of telephone and radio
communication dawning as it was during the Jazz Age, it spawned not only
convenience for everyday life, but for the organising of crime syndicates as
well. Chicago's bloody history during the Jazz Age, is a testimony to the
failure of prohibition laws introduced in 1919. The St. Valentine's Day massacre
is not noteworthy for its uniqueness of gangland murder, for these syndicate
'hits' were common throughout the 1920s, especially in Chicago. What makes the
murders so special on this occasion was the effect it had on the entire Unites
States public, and the outrage that followed emphatically pronounced that
something had to be done." A good overview of the event and the times. -
illustrated - From btinternet.com -
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/valentine.htm
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