1920

Political people 1920s Kara Danner
 * __ Herbert Hoover __**


 * Herbert Hoover was president during the 1920's. He believed that the government should stay not interfere with big business. **
 * In 1921, the Eighteenth Amendment banned the sale of alcohol. During that time, a lot of people were gambling money on the stock market. President Hoover knew that this was a bad idea but when he tried to warn people, they didn’t listen to him. **
 * In 1928, Herbert Hoover ran for reelection for presidency. At first, he didn't want to run, but other Republicans chose him to be their representative so he did. He won this election, but in 1929, 7 months after the he became President, the stock market crashed. This was important because a lot of people their money and they became poor. People started to lose faith in him and he couldn’t do anything about it. **
 * __ Charles Curtis __**


 * Curtis was born on January 25, 1860 on the Kansa/Kaw Indian-allotted land which would later become part of North Topeka, Kansas. He was the eldest of two children, his sister, Elizabeth, being born in 1861. His father, Orren Armes Curtis, was a white man whose English ancestors originally arrived in America in the early 1600s. Orren Curtis was born in Eugene, Indiana, in 1829. He appears to have been married several times prior to marrying Ellen Pappan, the mixed-blood daughter of his employer, in 1859.He later become vice president with Herbert Hoover. **
 * __ Marcus Garvey __**


 * When he settled in New York City in 1920, Garvey organized a chapter of the UNIA, which he had earlier founded in a Jamaican organization. Garvey helped Jamaicans and African Americans by giving them economic standing and cultural independence. He created an American gospel of success to inspire higher racial pride. "Garveyism”, as the followers named it, eventually evolved into a religion of success, inspiring millions of black people worldwide to find relief from racism and colonialism. **

Slide Show presentation url: [] **__Al Capone and the prohibition of alcohol.__** In 1920 the Volstead Act was passed to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol. Many people of the christian faith and other religious groups believed alcohol was a demon drink. These groups made up the majority of The Anti Saloon League of America. This group thought that ridding the country of alcohol was the only way to preserve their religion. However this law did not bode well with the rest of America. People began making "bathtub gin" and importing alcohol from Canada. Those who were caught defying the Volstead Act were fined up to $1000. And if they could not pay their fines, they were sentenced to 6 months jail time. During this time period, many gangs began to arise. Possibly the most well known gangster was Al Capone. [] []

Telvison in the 1920's wasn't very exciting. In 1926 the first moving images where put on the television. The moving image was of a toy windmill. The first transmision streched 480 miles across. In 1929 the first telvison company came out named Televison-Baird-Nathan in France the red picture is a picture that would be showed on a 1920's t.v.

**__ Music of the 1920’s __**

Jazz gained popularity in America in the 1920’s. Fascinating dances were devised to take advantage of the upbeat tempos of that modern day jazz. At this time, jazz was being played all over the country in dance halls and roadhouses. The influences of their modern day music were marching bands, which were the common form of concert music in that era. Although jazz was considered “the devils music”, many people listened to it. Jazz is still popular today, but not very many people like it. Including me. - yeah, this was written by LOGAN SAHADI. ([])

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__**Inventions of the 1920s.**__ The 1920s were known as a "Growth Spurt" for America, as new inventions were sprouting up everywhere. A few of the inventions made in America in the 1920s include the band aid, hair dryer, the trafic light, Q-tips, and the automobilie with a combustion engine, which were all made in the year 1920. In 1927 Edwin Perkins of Ohmaha, Nebraska made an important invention: the invention of kool-aid. Perkins owned "Perkins Product Company" which sold perfume and calling cards, and he was a well-studied chemist. The orginal name for Kool-Aid was "Fruit Smacks" and the orginal flavours were cherry, lemon-lime, grape, orange, root beer, strawberry and rasberry. Some other things invented in the 1920s were the liquid-fueled rocket (1926), the lie detector (1921), the bread slicer (1927), and the bulldozer (1923).

[] == Travel and Transportation P   rior to the 1920's only the very wealthy could afford to travel the world. Everyone else had to be content to read published travel narratives to learn about the world outside their town or city. With the increase in wages driven by people like Henry Ford, Americans for the first time had the time and money to travel. Mass production methods made automobiles affordable for the masses instead of just the rich. By 1921, the number of automobiles in the United States had passed the ten million mark necessitating President Warren G. Harding spending $75 million to improve the nation's roads. More and more Americans chose the low-cost, high-freedom option of travelling by automobile while vacationing. In the 1920's, trains and ocean liners were the dominant mass transportation methods, providing comfortable, reliable transport to millions of American vacationers. Trains had opened up the continent and ships the world, but newer methods of transport captured the imagination of the public and reduced travel times. The [|Suez Canal was enlarged] to handle the rapidly increasing size of ships that desired to use the shortcut. Air travel, though still in its infancy, captured America’s imagination during the 1920s. They held great promise in speeding communications and commerce throughout the continent and overseas. Airplanes were mainly used in peacetime for mail delivery but started to be used for passenger transport as planes became larger and more reliable. At this time ocean liners were symbols of modern technology, wealth, and national pride, but it appeared that giant airships (dirigibles) might one day replace their ocean giants. The first commercial air passenger service across the Atlantic was inaugurated by the German airship Graf Zeppelin in October 1928. It carried 20 passengers with a crew of 43. By 1929, airship technology had advanced to the point that the first round-the-world flight was completed by the Graf Zeppelin in September. Airships could carry larger amounts of freight and passengers in more comfort than planes but their reign came to an end due to the negative publicity generated by the destruction of the Hindenburg by lightning in 1937. The main method of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the 1920s was by steamship and ocean liner. Businessmen meeting overseas clients, entertainers on tour, and tourists making [|leisure trips] travelled on ocean liners in upper class berths. Also travelling with them in lower class berths were vast numbers of emigrants coming to the United States and immigrants returning abroad. A large ocean liner might have a crew of 1,100 to service as many as 3,400 passengers. Shipping Line owners competed against each other to produce the fastest and most luxurious ocean liners. The [|Ile de France] which was France's flagship in 1927 was a typical example of an opulent liner. ==
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