Homework 12/3/10

city vs. country
CITY
Cinema

• new way of entertainment for young people
• new jobs for men and women

Music

• Jazz music becoming very popular for African Americans and White people
• Dancing to the fast paced music caused controversy
  

Cars

• women could own cars and drive them
• auto-mobiles became largely important to many people living in large cities

Women

• women wore less clothing (shorter dresses)
• smoked in public places
• drank with men in public
• started wearing a lot of make-up

COUNTRY

• most things stayed the same for country life
• people were disgraced by the behavior of women living in cities
• thought people were losing self-respect and religion
• thought America was going down the drain
• city became more populated than country which was never seen in America

young vs. old
YOUNG

• living life with less care (especially about what elders thought)
  
• having more fun than before
• being entertained by new luxuries
• reckless and wild
• listening to the "scandalous" jazz music
• sex becoming bigger and less quiet subject for youth

OLD

• outraged and purely disgusted by the way young people were acting
• disliked the images new Hollywood movies were creating
• believed America was becoming something not good
• believed the youth were heading into something terrible
  

the role of women

• differed greatly from the country to the city
• in the city women behavior was less looked upon
• in the city it was easier for women to find jobs
  
• in rural USA women did not have jobs and were expected to be housewives and follow regular chores
  

Homework 12/2/10

1.) The USA's industrial strength -

• Vast country filled with natural resources
• Extremely high population increases at this time
• Most of the population at the time lived in cities, worked in large industries
• Coal, oil, iron, and gas just a few of the resources America had to offer
• AMERICAN INDUSTRY IS GROWING VIGOROUSLY
• By the time of WWI USA had led world in most areas of industry
• New Technology: Motor-vehicles, electric lighting, and telephones
• Film and Chemical industry high as well
  

The First World War -

• America tried to stay out
• Gave a lot of money of money and weapons to the allied group
• By end of WWI America stripped Germany of chemical power
  

New industries -

• Car/automobile
• Trucking
• Road making
  
• Building in the cities (skyscrapers and buildings)
  

Republican policies -

• Laissez-Faire - interfere as less as possible in affairs
  
• Tariffs - import tariff = good
  
• Low Taxation - benefits to working people = happy
  
• Trusts - huge "super-competitions" which dominated the industry
  

A state of mind -

• Most beneficial thing for any prospering nation
• America had growth state of mind
• Helped them in the long run with the "boom"
  

2.) I completely agree with the statement that the boom in industry would have been almost impossible without the mass production in automobiles. This is because the purchasing of automobiles contributed greatly to rising industries (car industry) and it provided new businesses. New businesses included roadwork/road making and truck driving/truck building. All of these industries were a huge factor of the increase in industry during this time.