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The 1920s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the 20s what did you do people become exposed to? | Jazz, new dances, and silent movies. |
| What made people question long held beliefs? | New theories and science discoveries. |
| What did everyone not welcome with modernization? | The changes. |
| What did Atlanta establish itself as in the South? | It establishes itself as the center of transportation for railroads and trucking. |
| What did General Motors and Ford offer customers? | installment plans (credit) for their purchase. |
| What did installment plans allow consumers to make? | It allowed them to make regular payments for cars over a period of time (Debt). |
| What did William Hartsfield an elected city councilman establish and when? | He established an airport in the 1920s. |
| What were flappers? | Women who were seen as wild. |
| What were flappers seen as wild for? | Wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex as a causality, drinking, smoking, driving automobiles, and flaunting conventional social and sexual norms. |
| What did prohibition cause? | It caused great corruption in law enforcement. |
| What did great corruption in law enforcement encourage? | It encouraged many Americans to ignore the law. |
| What's a speakeasy? | An illegal bar. |
| What did radio in Georgia first begin with? | WSB, AM750, in Atlanta. |
| When did the radio in Georgia first air? | It first aired in 1922. |
| What did other stations do soon after. | Soon after they followed. |
| What did cars allow young people to do? | It allowed young people to date without a chaperone. |
| What grew in the African American community and soon the entire country? | Jazz music and the blues. |
| Where did most black Americans live in the 1910s? | Most lived on farms. |
| After WW1 where did black Americans moved to? | Most black Americans moved to the North. |
| After WW1 what grew in the North? | The KKK grew in the North. |
| What's Xenophobia? | The fear of people from other countries. |
| What brought back the KKK? | The migration of African Americans and the influx of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. |
| What people were added to the hated groups? | Jews and Catholics. |
| What happened to the KKK in 1920? | The KKK got HUGE. |
| What happened to wages? | They increased steadily. |
| Why did credit use increase? | It increased because of the large increase in consumer goods available. |
| What did the use of credit also increase? | It also increased debt. |
| What national retail stores began? | A & P, Woodsworths, and Sears. |
| What became a widespread in the stock market? | Investing did. |
| What happened to cotton prices? | They fell throughout the 20s. |
| What happened to farm income when the boll weevil came to Georgia? | Farm income began falling even more. |
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Mikayla Jackman
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