The Roaring Twenties The 1920’s, deemed the roaring twenties, brought the American People many new things including jazz, popularity of movies and cars, radios, economic prosperity, new industries, and a uniform mass society. Even through all these positive outcomes it’s still my opinion the 1920’s was one of the worst decades for America. The 1920’s brought us the worst economic recession in America’s history which alone puts it on the list for worst decades, but it also brought us organized crime, the rise of the KKK, and huge government corruption. The roaring twenties was not as an accepting era as many people think. When I think of the 1920’s I think of jazz playing and everyone dancing together happily doing the Charleston. There
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It definitely wasn’t any worse than the other time periods around it, it’s just not as great as it was chalked up to be. The immigration act of 1924 is the biggest example of continued intolerance. The Immigration act dropped the numbers of immigrants allowed in by big amounts. For example only 50 filipinos were allowed into AMerica Per year. (The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)) Along with the major movements in the US government some more hidden things were going on behind the scene. The Ku Klux Klan, which before the “progressive era” was on its last leg, started to explode in popularity. Halfway through the 1920’s the number of klansmen were estimated at three million to eight million. The KKK had become so powerful that they enacted the “decade strategy”. Each Klans member recruited 10 people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. They succeeded in engineering government positions including the of mayor portland, Oregon and placed enough Klansman 's to effect the state governments of Colorado and Indiana. However not all was bad. The ballooning of the KKK’s power can also be contributed to the fact of the migration of …show more content…
A portion of the blame for the worst thing to come from the 1920’s can fall on the government and Roosevelt’s shoulders. During this time the government had a very laissez faire economic attitude. Laissez faire basically means a hands off attitude. A general consensus about the Great depression is that better economic policies could have at best stopped the great depression and at worst shortened it. Even though the 1920’s showed America one of its best economic periods ever the end of it still brought on the worst economic periods of
It definitely wasn’t any worse than the other time periods around it, it’s just not as great as it was chalked up to be. The immigration act of 1924 is the biggest example of continued intolerance. The Immigration act dropped the numbers of immigrants allowed in by big amounts. For example only 50 filipinos were allowed into AMerica Per year. (The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)) Along with the major movements in the US government some more hidden things were going on behind the scene. The Ku Klux Klan, which before the “progressive era” was on its last leg, started to explode in popularity. Halfway through the 1920’s the number of klansmen were estimated at three million to eight million. The KKK had become so powerful that they enacted the “decade strategy”. Each Klans member recruited 10 people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. They succeeded in engineering government positions including the of mayor portland, Oregon and placed enough Klansman 's to effect the state governments of Colorado and Indiana. However not all was bad. The ballooning of the KKK’s power can also be contributed to the fact of the migration of …show more content…
A portion of the blame for the worst thing to come from the 1920’s can fall on the government and Roosevelt’s shoulders. During this time the government had a very laissez faire economic attitude. Laissez faire basically means a hands off attitude. A general consensus about the Great depression is that better economic policies could have at best stopped the great depression and at worst shortened it. Even though the 1920’s showed America one of its best economic periods ever the end of it still brought on the worst economic periods of