Roaring 20s: Winners and Losers
8th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze how economic changes in the 1920s affected different groups of people.
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The 1920s saw a rise in consumer culture fueled by credit, but this prosperity was not shared equally, with the wealthiest 5% controlling more income than the bottom 60%.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African-American culture that sought to reject stereotypes and prejudice.
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Immigration restrictions in the 1920s, like the laws passed in 1921 and 1924, were influenced by fears of radicalism and pseudo-scientific ideas about race, drastically reducing immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and completely forbidding Asians.
