TEWWG Setting

TEWWG takes place mostly in Eatonville, Florida in the 1920s and 1930s.

-During the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S had plenty of segregation and discrimination against African Americans. 

-The Harlem shake started in the 1920s and ended during the Great Depression in the 1930s. 

-Women voted in a national election for the very first time in 1920.

-The Ku Klux Klan began targeting not only African Americans but also Catholics, Jews, and immigrants in the 1920s.

-The 1920s were a time of mass-huge quantities of manufactured goods were available, and many people had more money to spend them.

-In the 1920s, led by Henry Ford and the automobile industry, mass production and moving assembly line resulted in uniform products produced at lower costs. It mad possible a consumer-oriented economy, one in which more goods were available to more Americans.

-Americans had more leisure times in the 1920s because of a short work week and more paid vacation. Millions of people a week went to the theaters to watch the first movie with sound.

-Regarding sports, the NFL (National Football League) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

-The 18th amendment to the U.S Constitution went into affect in January 17,1920. This Amendment prohibited the making, selling, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition, the most flouted law in history was repealed in 1933.

American Presidents in 1920-1930s
28th President. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
29th President. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
30th President. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
31st President. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
32nd President. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)