The Jazz Age

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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was wickedand monstrous and
silly.Unfortunately, I had a good time.
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The Great War and American Prosperity

• Business cycles and the Roaring 20s
• Demand from the Allies
• Food production and agriculture
• Unemployment and wages
• Immigration and Internal migration
• A speculative mentality

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The Consumer Economy

• 1920s and the Industrialization process
• Prosperity and consumption
• A shift from industrial demand to consumer demand
• Urbanization
• Installment plans and debt
• The role of media and advertising

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Automobile and Society

• The Ford Miracle
• Private transportation/public investment
• Decentralization of the Factory, the City, and
  the Economy
• New Social Relationships and the Automobile
• Reaction to change

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The New Woman

• The Victorian family ideal revisited
• A New consumer driven value system
• Hollywood, romance, and sexuality
• Margaret Sanger and birth control
• The flapper image

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The Flapper