Social

• Car ownership increase - Period of significant growth in car ownership + automobile culture in the US


  1900-30
• 1900s Popular recreational activities

  • Sports
  • Games
• 1920s Competitive sports during the early 20th century
• Yellow Dog Contracts


  Contracts in which workers agreed not to join a labour union as a condition of employment
• Jazz


  Musical genre and cultural movement characterised by improvisation + syncopation, originating in African American communities
• 1920s Mass media industries


  • Radio
  • Film
  • Cinema
• Al Capone


  Notorious Chicago gangster involved in bootlegging and organised crime during Prohibition
• Hoovervilles


  Makeshift shantytowns inhabited by homeless people during the Great Depression, named after President Hoover
• Japanese Internment Centres


  Detention camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and imprisoned during WW2
• Post-war Boom


  • New business methods
  • Higher wages
  • New roads
  • New buildings