1. Changes in 1920s: The Good Stuff
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2. I. Mass Media Increase in information, education, and entertainment
Newspapers, radio, movies, sports, etc.
The introduction of the commercial
Selling goods many couldn’t afford
Buy on installment plan
Changes the way people feel about going into debt

3. II. Ladies Win suffrage with the 19th amendment in 1920
Tend to vote the same as their husbands
Replace men in factories during WWI
Jobs are taken when the men return from WWI
Still teachers, nurses, secretaries
Women make less money

4. II. Ladies Many new inventions for the ladies
Washing machine
Vacuum
Electric irons
Meant to reduce the amount of time on housework
Middle class women begin doing their own cleaning
Working class women lose jobs as maids
Less money in their pockets

5. II. Ladies
Flappers were women who went against traditional female rules
Most women become wives and mothers as before
Mass media reinforce gender roles

6. III. Transportation Cars Living patterns change
Moving away from home more often
Rural people affected b/c of social and economic uses
More people begin moving to suburbs

7. III. Transportation Street cars/trolleys Airplanes
Allows people to live in different neighborhoods
Allows people to work in different neighborhoods
Airplanes
Exist but only super-wealthy can use it

8. IV. Great Migration AA moving to Northeast and Midwest
Jim Crow
Violence
Poverty
Job opportunities
Cultural renaissance in Northern cities
Black middle class grows
Businesses cater to growing black population

9. IV. Great Migration Harlem Renaissance Mass media helped
Black writers, artists, musicians, poets
Celebrated African culture and black pride
Questioned AA position and treatment
Mass media helped
Spread jazz to white audiences
Spread books and art by blacks
Helped break old barriers