The Model T Ford revolutionised Americans’ life. It was a car that everybody could afford, which made its impact on people’s life enourmous on many levels
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When we think about the Twenties, we’ll most likely think parties, bootleg booze, the sound of jazz and the funny flappers’ lingo.
There is a substantial difference between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and the movements with the same name of 1800s and 1960s. While the letter were more of ideological movements, the 1902s Klan was more of a big, powerful marketing operation. The Twenties was a time of massive, fast, often shocking change, and as it…
Jazz is very difficult to define because it brings together several different elements and styles. 1920s jazz, in particular, was about breaking the rules.
You wouldn’t think that Native Americans’ citizenship would be an issue. It was, for many decades, and it finally found solution only in the 1920s.
Hijacking was a very common means of business for bootleggers in the 1920s. It was easy, relatively safe and highly profitable
During Prohibition, gin was the paradise of bootleggers. It was cheap, easy and fast to make and anybody could produce it
It’s a little known fact that the greatest output of featured films in the US occurred during the 1920s and 1930s. It was an unexpensive entertainment
Prohibition never prohibited the consumption of alcohol. It never even prohibited the purchase of alcohol… though it did prohibit the selling.
Drys and Wets (supporters and opposers of Prohibition) put a very heavy stamp on all the time Prohibiiton was enforced… and it wasn’t just about alcohol
Youth as a concept was born in the 1920s colleges, where young people lived an independent life uncontrolled by their elders
Black-and-tans were speakeasies where jazz was hot and races could mix in a still segregated America. But wher they really the integrated example we think?