What was life like in 1920's America?

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  • čas přidán 27. 08. 2024

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  • @AJMerrick
    @AJMerrick  Před 5 lety +32

    A footnote that turned into an entire video

  • @swiftz1145
    @swiftz1145 Před 4 lety +110

    Who’s watching for lockdown hw

  • @sreeenivas00706
    @sreeenivas00706 Před rokem +12

    It's hard to think this was 100 years ago...

    • @greenman8
      @greenman8 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Its hard to believe, I have been alive, for 1/2 that time. Someone born in 1850 lived pretty much the same as someone 500 years prior.
      Its not just time that is flying, it is the advancement in technology. I think we have been in the singularity since 1875.

  • @101Cookieznv
    @101Cookieznv Před 5 lety +25

    Short, sweet and full of information. Great video.

  • @goodyeoman4534
    @goodyeoman4534 Před 3 lety +14

    The title suggests a description of daily life in 1920s America, with anecdotes and first-hand accounts. The video is more of a summary of the main political and economic events of that decade.

    • @tonystarke9820
      @tonystarke9820 Před 2 lety

      The guy not even American

    • @TheEudaemonicPlague
      @TheEudaemonicPlague Před 7 měsíci

      I'm not going to waste my time on the video, but came here looking for comments such as this. The average CZcamsr is too young to do videos on what life was like in the 80s and 90s...the idea that someone could do a video on the day to day life of people in the 1920s is a bad joke. Not impossible, but most YT channels are in a hurry to make as many videos as possible, so it's extremely unlikely that any of this type of video is going to be more than lightly-researched fluff at best, and much more likely highly inaccurate.

  • @Blaqjaqshellaq
    @Blaqjaqshellaq Před 6 měsíci +2

    Among other things, the 1920s was a time when women first got obsessed with slender figures. (When you think of a flapper, you think of a thin girl.) The new fashion business had a lot to do with it, but so did Hollywood.

  • @ahmedbassam400
    @ahmedbassam400 Před 5 lety +78

    This never ending cycle is present in every empire in history and it is brilliantly summarised in this quote; Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

    • @moondancer3157
      @moondancer3157 Před 5 lety +6

      I believe that.

    • @zakkart
      @zakkart Před 5 lety +7

      A.K.A Fascist history lmao

    • @tntsummers926
      @tntsummers926 Před 5 lety +9

      @Joe Blow your a product of your times, choices circumstances, and other such things, just like me. That's how the human mind is created, through memories of what happened.

    • @Kruppt808
      @Kruppt808 Před 3 lety

      Looking at history and charting a people's success and failure as a nation normally coincidences with the leadership. It's hard to get alot of good leaders in a row or good leaders don't normally reign as long as you'd think.
      EU3 AND 4, how many duds did you get before Charles the VIII the kickass? And then his son is another dud.

    • @toliniewilliams6562
      @toliniewilliams6562 Před 2 lety

      @@Kruppt808 The Prussians got lucky

  • @joshuastables5004
    @joshuastables5004 Před 3 lety +103

    Anyone here for history homework? 😂

  • @chavvy9074
    @chavvy9074 Před 2 lety +9

    3:45 "However the implications of debt were ignored to maintain the American standard of living."
    Uh oh...and we're only in 2021.

  • @Embracehistoria
    @Embracehistoria Před 5 lety +19

    The narration was sound mate.

  • @MrHousecup
    @MrHousecup Před 3 lety +5

    This was informative and interesting. Thanks!

  • @bassgirl_denalia9087
    @bassgirl_denalia9087 Před 2 lety +3

    It's unnerving how paralleling this is with modern day economics. We just have cooler looking tech.

    • @xiiir838
      @xiiir838 Před 29 dny

      But less cooler architecture, fashion and cars 🥺😢

  • @gunnarherzog5538
    @gunnarherzog5538 Před 5 lety +42

    The 2010's? As it stands right now the surge of political fringe groups and the slow, but steady decline of democracy

    • @krystalharmon3955
      @krystalharmon3955 Před 4 lety

      of the republic and our freedom

    • @tomjack1000000
      @tomjack1000000 Před 4 lety +3

      Honestly the 2010's can be defined by so many things that nothing can actually define it besides the internet and smart phones rising to prominence. Tech age? Who knows.

    • @seanvasquez523
      @seanvasquez523 Před 3 lety +4

      Is it just me or does the 2010's sound kinda similar to the 1910's?

    • @xiiir838
      @xiiir838 Před 29 dny

      Meh, you'll be fine, everything is a cycle, just hang on and eventually you'll get good leaders

  • @doug6259
    @doug6259 Před rokem +3

    $260 for a car was pretty cheap for the time. That is around $4000 in todays dollars, but the average new car is around $30,000. It was much easier to afford a car then. The start of prohibition probably felt great for the organizations who worked for years to pass it. Its failure and eventual repeal must have been very deflating.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Před 11 měsíci +1

      I know, just what you wanted, more essay from me, but all I'll say, is the top price cars were the Dorris, Daniels, and Peerless. Dorris $8,000 from factory, Daniels $10,000 from factory, and Peerless, 26,000 at their highest factory car (mind you, factory is not tampered with/coachbuilt, meaning it came from the factory made by unskilled workers--as in not artisans, and that was the final price). Some fella put Alligator skin as a California top (attachable hard top--or soft top in this case) over there Chalmers sport sedan. Oh and don't forget, these cars had 130-140 wheelbases (from wheel to wheel in inches), and a height averaging of a 6'5 roof. Massive and I mean MASSIVE vehicles. I think I have just the example too.

    • @greenman8
      @greenman8 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Maybe, but back then it was made under very simple goal-sets. No emissions, no safety features, and you were lucky to buy one without a hand crank to start. You were basically buying a fast lawnmower.

  • @nickoybailey9123
    @nickoybailey9123 Před 4 lety +16

    The two things I found most interesting that during this time because they invented cars and made history bu showing others that things were possible to make.

    • @RoseWood32
      @RoseWood32 Před 3 lety +3

      It’s crazy that 1920 is 100 years ago!

  • @random7279
    @random7279 Před 3 lety +7

    am I the only one come here for learning english?

  • @dante666jt
    @dante666jt Před 2 lety +1

    Background score on point.

  • @matthewstahl2487
    @matthewstahl2487 Před 3 lety +2

    Awesome car pictures 🙂

  • @Geopoliticus
    @Geopoliticus Před 5 lety +15

    Great video. Could you please recommend a book on the African American experience during this decade?

    • @Kruppt808
      @Kruppt808 Před 3 lety +3

      There was a really popular movie and movement in the south during this time, Ku Klux something, they came out with a very popular film and there membership was at an all time high.
      If I was a guessing man, I'd guess African American people had a horrible experience especially in the south.

    • @Regalieth9143
      @Regalieth9143 Před 2 lety

      A horrible experience obviously.

    • @nonelost1
      @nonelost1 Před rokem

      @@Kruppt808 That’s why millions of them migrated up north during the first half of the 20th century.

  • @barnes29510
    @barnes29510 Před 3 lety

    Remember that show called, "Beyond 2000". I think I'll take a look.

  • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521

    How was it like for the U.K during 1920s.

  • @PossumMedic
    @PossumMedic Před 3 lety +12

    What will the 2010's be remembered for? TikTok xD

  • @ritugoel2202
    @ritugoel2202 Před 2 lety

    thankyou, extremely interesting and this video saved me to complete my assignment which has to be submitted tommorrow lmao

  • @bigmac5753
    @bigmac5753 Před rokem +1

    imagine life in another 100 years or even a thousand so many things we will never see

  • @kassievera1854
    @kassievera1854 Před 3 lety +2

    Nice video

  • @ded5630
    @ded5630 Před 3 lety +2

    Aye shout out to my fellow 20s kids

  • @darrenhalstead3684
    @darrenhalstead3684 Před 3 měsíci

    Did you see that the size of that cup though???

  • @iraqimapper8625
    @iraqimapper8625 Před 5 lety +33

    After that good time the great depression started

    • @moondancer3157
      @moondancer3157 Před 5 lety

      Sure did.

    • @OldieBugger
      @OldieBugger Před 5 lety +4

      Like a hangover.

    • @longwlenguyen4214
      @longwlenguyen4214 Před 4 lety +1

      @Chloro Phill Then Nixon fucked up and we got the oil crisis, and now we depend on the Arabs more than ever all thank to Nixon.

    • @wbnxd5856
      @wbnxd5856 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah I hope they enjoyed life before the depression

    • @seanvasquez523
      @seanvasquez523 Před 3 lety +1

      @@longwlenguyen4214, And also Kennedy got assassinated and we got into Vietnam and it wasn't really all that great. Yeah after the 1950's the U.S. got in a really messy state and it took until the 1980's when good times came back and it was like that for another two decades until the 2000's when the U.S got into a another really messy state once again.

  • @luvsuneja
    @luvsuneja Před 3 lety +5

    I feel the 2020s will end in disaster just like the 1920s

  • @bhueyyih
    @bhueyyih Před 3 lety +2

    whos watching this for history work ?

  • @antonisautos8704
    @antonisautos8704 Před 2 lety +1

    3600 for a brand new car adjusting for inflation... shoot... long cry from prices today. Though modern cars today come with much more than those of 100 years ago.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Před 11 měsíci +1

      Do you even know what was in those cars of 100 years ago you just assume didn't have anything in them.

  • @eggsbenedict8971
    @eggsbenedict8971 Před 2 lety +1

    My teacher is making me watch this

  • @ghostlyjudge
    @ghostlyjudge Před 2 lety

    sweet video

  • @bmiller949
    @bmiller949 Před 5 měsíci

    Looking at this, history is repeating itself. There is wild wage inequality currently, as there was back then.

  • @jonpmatthews8909
    @jonpmatthews8909 Před 2 lety

    Felt like the Osage Reign of Terror definitely deserves a spot in this video

  • @jackangel4502
    @jackangel4502 Před 9 měsíci

    @5:01 From Wikipedia: The first "film of sound" was actually not 1927's "The Jazz Singer," but rather one exhibited in Paris in the year 1900 (possibly "Cyrano de Bergerac?)!

  • @Diazzz1998
    @Diazzz1998 Před 2 lety

    Imagine buying a car for $260 dollars man I wish the economy and inflation never changed and things were still like that now in 2021.... instead gas is now almost $4 a gallon 😒

  • @daanialmirzapour1636
    @daanialmirzapour1636 Před 2 lety

    Cool

  • @BrntToaster
    @BrntToaster Před 3 lety

    3:33 Pog

  • @bony8151
    @bony8151 Před 2 lety +1

    20’s go roar

  • @hifinsword
    @hifinsword Před 6 měsíci +1

    Extreme leverage in the stock market brought about the Great Depression. It almost happened for the same reason in 2008. The U.S. Gov't is proceeding down the same path. And it won't end well if we the people don't stop voting for representatives that are giving the wealthiest tax breaks. The TAX CODE is our biggest obstacle to relieving Nat'l debt.

  • @JetBob84
    @JetBob84 Před 3 lety

    What will the 2020's hold?

  • @born2fap
    @born2fap Před 3 lety +3

    WOW SOUNDS ALLOT LIKE RIGHT NOW??????????????

  • @kendallmajeres1381
    @kendallmajeres1381 Před 2 lety

    Yes me

  • @godseed7984
    @godseed7984 Před 2 lety

    Wow! It's funny how history rhymes

    • @greenman8
      @greenman8 Před 8 měsíci

      Look up, Turning Theory, as it relates to the Generations and how they fit History.

  • @alejoh3179
    @alejoh3179 Před 11 měsíci

    Awes

  • @crashban4t.f.s.b783
    @crashban4t.f.s.b783 Před 3 lety

    YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD HER NOBODY EVER HEARD HER BUT,US THE GIRL WAS GRIEVING NOBODY SHOULD BE GRIEVING THIS WAY

  • @LoscoeLad
    @LoscoeLad Před 2 lety +3

    The start of an idiotic response and over-reaction to Covid is how this 10s will be remembered.

  • @barnes29510
    @barnes29510 Před 3 lety

    Title Edit- What was life like for the wealthy in 1920 America.

  • @AntG130
    @AntG130 Před rokem +1

    The 19th amendment was the biggest mistake in our history

    • @greenman8
      @greenman8 Před 8 měsíci

      Not following through with the right way to reconstruct the south, after the death of Lincoln, tarnished any positives would be seen, in the next century.

    • @greenman8
      @greenman8 Před 8 měsíci

      If Lincoln was alive after 1865, there would be no Jim Crow Laws, no KKK, no Republican-Democrat switch.

  • @renegadeace1735
    @renegadeace1735 Před rokem +1

    Imagine inventing a time machine, going back to 1925 and playing Avatar 2 in the theater lol

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Před 11 měsíci

      Imagine playing Avater 2 in theaters today you idiot. That shows from like 2004.

  • @RoseWood32
    @RoseWood32 Před 3 lety +4

    1920 is from 100 years ago!!!!!

    • @matthewstahl2487
      @matthewstahl2487 Před 3 lety +1

      The 1920s people lived better lives than people in 2020. The ROARING Twenties was a GOOD time to live in. The CORONA Twenties, however, is a NEUTRAL zone.

    • @wbnxd5856
      @wbnxd5856 Před 3 lety +1

      @@matthewstahl2487 I mean we are in the first year, the whole 2020s won’t be about COVID, but COVID will define the first and/or second year of 2020s, but after this year and pandemic ends, who knows, maybe we might party all day every day and have great pop culture, economic booming again, optimism about the future, etc.

    • @matthewstahl2487
      @matthewstahl2487 Před 3 lety

      @@wbnxd5856 Probably so.

    • @seanvasquez523
      @seanvasquez523 Před 3 lety

      @@wbnxd5856, And then again the year 1920 was also like this. But when the middle of the 1920's came my god it was like a party over there. Hopefully the 2020's could be the same thing.

    • @barnes29510
      @barnes29510 Před 3 lety

      @@wbnxd5856 hold on! It's going to be a rough ride.

  • @wheelieblind
    @wheelieblind Před 3 lety +1

    I don't know about the 2010's but 2020 will be remembered for people hoarding toilet paper so they can stay home and shit themselves to death. :-P

  • @ohhu6098
    @ohhu6098 Před 3 lety

    Renember us

  • @Goddi195
    @Goddi195 Před 2 lety

    And now all we do is import

  • @tarawhite4419
    @tarawhite4419 Před 6 měsíci

    And they're repeating themselves

  • @ryanh.9603
    @ryanh.9603 Před 3 lety +1

    Umm I’m here in 2920 and the number one car company is McDonalds

  • @finleysgames1040
    @finleysgames1040 Před 7 měsíci

    Here watching for English lessons 😂

  • @brenm2090
    @brenm2090 Před 3 lety

    What’s with the British accent for an American history presentation? I can’t even!

    • @ValYourFav
      @ValYourFav Před 3 lety

      americans aren’t americans real americans are native americans americans are british and other types of European or Asian or african etc.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@ValYourFav Who was living this in 1920s america, oh yah, those 'british' americans so yes, it is for americans.

  • @theogkermit6366
    @theogkermit6366 Před 3 lety

    oga booga

  • @phillyjayee
    @phillyjayee Před rokem

    They are Israelites not Africans

  • @noamepelbaum
    @noamepelbaum Před 2 lety

    10p

  • @coldFire2023
    @coldFire2023 Před 10 měsíci

    Capitalism is not evil, communism is.

  • @indentindego5o612
    @indentindego5o612 Před 2 lety

    History class anyone?

  • @jackangel4502
    @jackangel4502 Před 9 měsíci

    Yep

  • @SpiceIntolerance
    @SpiceIntolerance Před 2 lety

    Drugs should be legally sold and taxed