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= = = = = 1920's! = ====The 1920s was a decade full of social changes and culture conflicts. Many more Americans were moving from farms to the cities. The most populated and famous city during the 1920s was New York City. Many new people were becoming famous for music in the decade. The 1920s comes after the first world war and before the Great Depression. The decade was full of jazzbands, flappers, gin, speakeazies, and flagpole sitters. There was also a dark side to the Roaring Twenties as well that most people do not recognize. Below are a list of inventions, important dates, elections, people, and cultural changes.====

= Inventions =

-Penicillin
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**1929** - October 24: Start of the Stock Market Crash
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United States presidential election, 1920
 * ||= [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Warren_G_Harding-Harris_%26_Ewing-crop.jpg/154px-Warren_G_Harding-Harris_%26_Ewing-crop.jpg width="154" height="201" caption="Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing-crop.jpg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warren_G_Harding-Harris_%26_Ewing-crop.jpg"]] ||= [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/James_M._Cox_1920.jpg/141px-James_M._Cox_1920.jpg width="141" height="201" caption="James M. Cox 1920.jpg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_M._Cox_1920.jpg"]] ||
 * ~ Nominee ||= **[|Warren G. Harding]** ||= [|James M. Cox] ||
 * ~ Party ||= [|Republican] ||= [|Democratic] ||
 * ~ Home state ||= [|Ohio] ||= [|Ohio] ||
 * ~ Running mate ||= **[|Calvin Coolidge]** ||= [|Franklin D. Roosevelt] ||
 * ~ Electoral vote ||= 404 ||= 127 ||
 * ~ States carried ||= 37 ||= 11 ||
 * ~ Popular vote ||= 16,144,093 ||= 9,139,661 ||
 * ~ Percentage ||= 60.3% ||= 34.1% ||  ||
 * ~ Popular vote ||= 16,144,093 ||= 9,139,661 ||
 * ~ Percentage ||= 60.3% ||= 34.1% ||  ||

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 * ==== Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 by a landslide. Calvin Coolidge took office after Harding died in 1923. Coolidge was now the 30th president and was in office from 1923-1929. ====

Famous People during the 1920s

 * ==== Louise Brooks - Dancer and Movie Star ====
 * ==== Gloria Swanson - Movie Star ====
 * ==== Coco Chanel - Celebrity Fashion Designer ====
 * ==== Charles Lindbergh - Famous Aviator and adventurer ====
 * ==== Al Capone - Famous Gangster ====
 * ==== F. Scott Fitzgerald - Self-proclaimed "Flapper King" & Author of __The Great Gatsby__ ====
 * ==== Jack Dempsey - Boxer ====
 * ==== Babe Ruth - Baseball Player and unofficial King of New York ====
 * ==== Albert Einstein - Famous Scientist ====
 * ==== Duke Ellington- Leader of the Cotton Club ====
 * ==== Charlie Chaplin- Director, Composer, Actor, Musician ====
 * ==== Marcus Garvey- Black Civil Rights Activist ====



Cultural and Social Changes in America during the 1920s

 * ==== The role of women changed dramatically during the 1920s ====
 * ==== Women were now allowed to vote ====
 * ==== They were also put to work and took up jobs of the men when they were at war ====
 * ==== Alcoholic beveragerswere prohibited which caused underground bars knows as speakeasies ====
 * ==== Girls now dressed more provacative and sexier that before ====
 * ==== Gangsters became big in the 1920s ====
 * ==== A common fad was women and men now smoking ciggarettes ====
 * ==== Women now cut their hair very shorts ====
 * ==== Swing dancing and jazz also became extremely popular ====
 * ==== Women began to wear makeup ====
 * ==== Harlem Renaissance began African American literature and had a significant impact on black literature and consciousness ====


 * ==== Racism was a huge problem in the 1920s ====
 * ==== Example of racism is Sacco and Venzetticase, they didnt reiceve a fair trail ====
 * ==== Hatred towards the Jewish, most immigrants, and blacks ====
 * ==== Jim Crow Laws still existed in the south which made seperate facilites for blacks and whites ====
 * ==== The KKK was an awful group that was against blacks and whoever was not christian or American ====
 * ==== Farming was not booming at all during the decade ====
 * ==== 3/4 of the population was in poverty ====

Video Clips for the Roaring Twenties
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