THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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teams’ ability to fly from city to city.
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the efforts and personality of Babe Ruth.
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Prohibition’s effect on unifying the family.
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an increase in leisure time of most American workers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Newspapers increased their coverage of sports. Improvements in roads made it possible for fans to travel to athletic events in distant cities. For the first time, large numbers of Americans began to pay money to watch other people compete in athletic contests. Baseball was the “national pastime” in the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The increased financial prosperity of the 1920s gave many Americans more disposable income to spend on entertaining themselves. This influx of cash, coupled with advancements in technology, led to new patterns of leisure (time spent having fun) and consumption (buying products).
Detailed explanation-3: -More activities included playing board games, watching movies, listening to the radio, and reading. They played a lot of board games as families, like using the Ouija board and playing Hokum and Tiddledy Winks. They watched movies now because they started playing movies with sound that was made in 1923.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1920s, Americans witnessed a Golden Age of sports. Thanks to the rise of mass media, extensive newspaper coverage, and radio broadcasts, amateur and professional athletes became well-known celebrities.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1920s, people entertained themselves with spectator sports, games, movies, and the radio.