THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
travel Northeast
|
|
|
Southeast
|
|
|
Northwest
|
|
|
Southwest
|
Detailed explanation-1: -On August 25, 1919, the first regular international passenger air service took place between London and Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first regularly scheduled airmail route connected New York and Washington, D.C., via Philadephia, from May 15, 1918, to May 31, 1921. The Post Office Department operated the 218-mile route to demonstrate that mail transportation by airplane was possible on a regular schedule in all kinds of weather.
Detailed explanation-3: -The nature of American sprawl changed radically with coming of the inexpensive automobile in the 1920s. No longer limited to close proximity to major streets and trolley lines, low density development expanded to previously inaccessible areas, often “leapfrogging” over undeveloped areas to more distant locations.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main goal of the Washington Naval Conference was to reduce the threat of communism. The personal friends that President Harding put into his cabinet were known as the fall guys. Great changes in America’s landscape were tied mostly closely to a large increase in the use of automobiles in the 1920’s.