Musical styles were also changing in the s. In Louis Armstrong started improvising and adding personal musical variations with his trumpet, playing in a style known as jazz. In the flappers found a new dance craze, called the Charleston. In Mickey Mouse first appeared in the cartoon Steamboat Willie , and in Popeye first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theater. Aviation represented another area in which things were changing quite rapidly, helped by advances and improvements in aircraft during World War I.
Up to this time only a few daredevils and barnstormers had flown. In the United States Air Service circumnavigated the world in airplanes, just twenty-one years after Orville Wright flew the first powered plane for only forty yards here in North Carolina. Before the decade was over, commercial passenger air travel had begun. The Fourteenth Amendment had already given African Americans citizenship in Yet segregation , or separation of the races, continued to be practiced in North Carolina and in the South.
Modern civil rights laws for minorities were still many years away. As mentioned in the beginning of this article, the decade also represented the worst of times. Here in North Carolina, Thomas W. Bickett was the governor until Show Boat became the basis for the popular musical of the same name. Prosperity had ended. The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression.
The s 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.
American culture, such as books, movies, and Broadway theater, was now being exported to the rest of the world. World War I had left Europe on the decline and America on the rise. Barrett A. The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina in the 's. Forsyth County Public Library. Winston-Salem in the Jazz Age. North Carolina Museum of History. A New Woman Emerges. October 19, Accessed February 28, Scientific progress also transformed the economy.
Mass production techniques, such as the conveyer belt and assembly line pioneered by Henry Ford , meant that goods could be produced more quickly and in greater quantities. The new machines did not require a high level of skill to operate them, so factories were able to employ large numbers of unskilled workers. This led to both lower prices for goods and to more employment.
These cheaper, mass-produced products and increased employment stimulated further the demand for goods, and thus created the consumer boom which led to economic prosperity. The reasons for the rapid economic growth in the s The USA had become a huge industrial nation even before the s. Young people led the revolution--especially young women.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, beginning in August But many young women went a step further, breaking with the past and adopting new fashions and attitudes that shocked their elders. Young men cheerfully did the same. Many of them had served in the war in Europe and came back Use this link to get back to this page.
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