The Roaring 20s - Verbs in the past tense

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The Roaring '20s.
This refers to the decade between 1920 and 1930, but why is it roaring? Because this a time when Americans new styles of attitude, dancing, and dress, and rejected some traditional moral values.

Also, during this time, the government a law that made alcoholic drinks illegal. This Prohibition. Even though it was against the law, people still and alcohol in hidden bars called speakeasies.

This decade electricity and petroleum become more accessible. It machines in factories and tractors on farms. Electricity also more homes. Because of this, appliances like vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, sewing machines, fans, and toasters to make life easier. Electricity also that radios music, news, and entertainment into American homes. Radio receivers wildly popular, and by 1930, 12 million families a radio.

Then came movies. At first, they were in black and white and had no sound but were still very popular. In 1927, the first talkie the screen. Entertainment also in the form of a new kind of music called jazz. Jazz in African-American communities, but very well-liked and has since spread across the country and the world.

Music was recorded on records and be played on record players in the average home. As petroleum became available, so the Model T Ford. In 1896, Henry Ford his first successful automobile with a petroleum-powered engine. By the late 1920s, most Americans owned a car.

In all, the United States new advances in electricity, transportation, and communication in the 1920s. You could say it was a roaring time.