How Does Technology Affect The Economy Of The 1920s

The Roaring Twenties was a time of prosperity and leisure for many. Technology advancements and the availability of it was what made the economy so prosperous during the 1920s. History.com states, "many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators." To go along with that, cars and radios were also very popular. Radios were the most popular of the consumer goods in households. According to the article, 12 millions households had radios by the end of the 1920s. What made these things along with other consumer goods and leisures possible is all the extra money left over that people had after taking care of every need. According to

According to the book again, the slogan, “Say it with flowers,” made florists’ business double from 1912 to 1924. Another example used is, “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet,” which lured overweight people into smoking cigarettes and away from fat foods like candy. Some more slogans that supported credit were: “ a dollar down and a dollar forever,” “you furnish the girl, we’ll furnish the home,” and, “enjoy while you pay.” Leisures like sporting events and movies were highly popular. Even if you could not attend a sporting event, you could listen to a broadcasting of it on the radio, and many did. The radio was highly used for this purpose, along with many other purposes. Primarily, it was the men who enjoyed and listened to, or watched sports. Baseball was highly popular during the twenties, along with boxing. One of the biggest sports heroes of this decade and of all time, is Babe Ruth. Women in the Roaring Twenties took a huge step towards equality. The 19th Amendment allowed suffrage for women, which is the right to vote. Many women known as "flappers" were more free to do as they pleased. They dressed more exposingly, and drank and smoked just like men

Here is a list of what was given that lead to the spark of the Harlem Renaissance: Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan, voting restrictions, employment restrictions, educational limitations, housing restrictions, transitions of African Americans from rural south to industrial north, segregation, segregation in the armed forces, and denial of trial by jury, which could lead to lynching. The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group of white people who thought whites were superior, and would practically do what it took to do away with African Americans. The best way to possibly put it, is they despised blacks, or anyone who was not Caucasian in that matter. An example that applies to both voting restrictions and educational restrictions, would be the literacy tests required to be taken so you could vote, and many African Americans were not educated properly or well at all, so that eliminated their chances of voting. And to protect the whites who could not pass these tests, the grandfather law ensured that if any of your ancestors from a couple generations back could vote during their time, then so could