The nation’s total wealth | more than doubled between 1920 and 1929. |
The 1920s were an age of | dramatic social and political change |
Americans had extra money to spend, | and they spent it on consumer goods. |
Consumer goods: | examples included, ready-to-wear clothes, home appliances like electric refrigerators and cars. |
In 1924 | the Ford Model T cost just $260. |
In 1929 there was | one car on the road for every five Americans. |
There were many features of the roaring 1920s. These included: | Town vs. country, Entertainment, Radio, Jazz, Cinema and the Car. |
1920 | saw more Americans living in cities than in the countryside. |
People in the countryside thought of city dwellers as, | atheists, drunks and criminals. |
The term ‘Roaring Twenties’ is particularly associated with | entertainment and changing morality during the 1920s |
The average working week dropped from 47.4 | to 44.2 hours |
Average wages rose by | 11 per cent |
In August 1921 there was only one licensed radio station in America. | By the end of 1922 there were 508 of them. |
The 1920s became known as | the Jazz Age. |
Older generations saw jazz | as a corrupting influence on the young people of the USA. |
During the 1920s movies became | a multi-billion dollar business |
The cost of a movie ticket was | between 10 and 20 cents |
Theda Bara, Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino | were all major movie stars in the 1920s |