The 1920’s was also the rise of the middle class, more jobs was becoming available due to new factories and the building of new infrastructure.
The economy was rising. From the year of 1919 to 1920 inflation rose 23.7 percent. In the year of 1920 to 1921 inflation decreased 15.8 percent. The years of 1913- 1929 food, rent, apparel, fuel, electricity, ice, house furnishings, and miscellaneous all rose.
The American economy grew rapidly in the 1920’s for five major reasons. The United States had a lot of natural resources such as coal in the Appalachian Mountains, oil in Texas, and ranching and herding in the Great Plains and Midwest. There was no need of buying resources from other countries; such America had its own. America’s population was going impressively fast and as the