The Roaring Twenties
- Roaring twenties. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htmThe decade following World War I would one day be caricatured as "the Roaring Twenties," and it was a time of unprecedented prosperity — the nation's total wealth nearly doubled between 1920 and 1929, manufactures rose by 60 percent, for the first time most people lived in urban areas — and in homes lit by electricity.
- Scopes Trial. (2015). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/66321#Scopes Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- Nineteenth Amendment. (2015). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/488730Nineteenth Amendment, amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States that officially extended the right to vote to women.
Prohibition
- Prohibition. (2015). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/610119Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Roaring Twenties
CrashCourse. (2013, October 4). The roaring 20's: Crash Course US history #32 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOR1XCMf7A
McDonnell, J. F. (2013, December 28). The century: America's time - 1920-1929: Boom to bust [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7ftyZigYs