THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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increased slightly.
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increased considerably.
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dropped considerably.
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remained constant.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the labor movement weakened, union membership plunged in the 1920s from 5 million to 3 million. Business profits, meanwhile, soared. The decade saw an accumulation of wealth that harkened back to the Gilded Age.
Detailed explanation-2: -Union membership grew exponentially as the Depression wore on. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), established in the 1930s, organized large numbers of Black workers into labor unions for the first time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Immigration, race, alcohol, evolution, gender politics, and sexual morality all became major cultural battlefields during the 1920s. Wets battled drys, religious modernists battled religious fundamentalists, and urban ethnics battled the Ku Klux Klan. The 1920s was a decade of profound social changes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression. The 1920s represented an era of change and growth. The decade was one of learning and exploration. America had become a world power and was no longer considered just another former British colony.