Research: roaring twenties

http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties

• more Americans lived in cities than on farms
• “consumer society.”
• the new women
•  young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things
• sexually “free”
• can now vote
• new machines and technologies like the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner eliminated some of the drudgery of household work.
• Mass Culture
• extra money to spend,
• radios!
• The first commercial radio station in the U.S., Pittsburgh’s KDKA
•  People also went to the movies: 
• most important consumer product of the 1920s was the automobile
• The Jazz Age
• What many young people wanted to do was dance
• Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, the flea hop.
• Jazz bands played at dance halls like the Savoy in New York Cit
• radio stations and phonograph records 
• Prohibition
• banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors
•  12 A.M. on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United State
•  drove the liquor trade underground
•  speakeasies
• controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized-crime figures