The billionaire, J. Paul Getty, once said, “The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.” The During the 1920s, the nation doubled in wealth and most farmers moved to the cities. But, 600,000 farmers lost their jobs during the 1920s. The 1920s was called the “roaring 20s” because society was improving by the inventions that were being made to cure diseases like insulin. But, the music was becoming smoother with instruments like trumpets, banjos, and the trombone. World War 1 had just ended and everyone was celebrating. The most famous jazz player at the time was Duke Ellington. The roaring 20s had bad things such as poverty and people didn’t have houses and the good things are
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Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. During the 1920s women able to vote by the 19th amendment. Women striked to outlaw alcohol because they were being mistreated because of it.
Jazz was the new music at the time everyone listened to it. Famous jazz musicians are Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. There were new dances also like the foxtrot, waltz, and American tango. Jazz was popular too but the most widespread of them all is big band which consisted of 10 musicians. People started to prefer jazz to other music at the time. The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald termed the 1920s "the Jazz Age." the phonograph and radio - made popular music more accessible than ever before. Jazz started in New Orleans.
There were very important inventions that made the roaring 20s. The inventions at the time was the Band-Aid, radio, and the jukebox. Those inventions led to jazz spreading through the United States. There are also inventions that we still use today such as the band aid, garbage disposal, sunglasses, refrigerator, and the bulldozer. Earle Dickson the founder of Johnson and Johnson created the band aid in 1921. The loud speaker was created by two general electric employees Chester W. Rice and Edward Washburn Kellogg created the first loud speaker ever and was patented
Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. During the 1920s women able to vote by the 19th amendment. Women striked to outlaw alcohol because they were being mistreated because of it.
Jazz was the new music at the time everyone listened to it. Famous jazz musicians are Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. There were new dances also like the foxtrot, waltz, and American tango. Jazz was popular too but the most widespread of them all is big band which consisted of 10 musicians. People started to prefer jazz to other music at the time. The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald termed the 1920s "the Jazz Age." the phonograph and radio - made popular music more accessible than ever before. Jazz started in New Orleans.
There were very important inventions that made the roaring 20s. The inventions at the time was the Band-Aid, radio, and the jukebox. Those inventions led to jazz spreading through the United States. There are also inventions that we still use today such as the band aid, garbage disposal, sunglasses, refrigerator, and the bulldozer. Earle Dickson the founder of Johnson and Johnson created the band aid in 1921. The loud speaker was created by two general electric employees Chester W. Rice and Edward Washburn Kellogg created the first loud speaker ever and was patented