The 1930s decade would be a really difficult decade for the United States.
The decade of 1920s was definitely a decade of change because there were many innovations that also caused the general mentality of the society to change and promoted the people’s desire to improve. It was called the roaring 20s. The 1920s gave the United States things such as jazz, movies, radio, different ethics, automobile, secrecy on alcohol trade (gangsters), prosperity, credit, immigrants, economic crisis, freedom, dancing and a lot more. Hollywood was settled after World War I, and many celebrities started to rise. Poetry started appearing too. The World War I had just ended. There is an economic expansion from the beginning of the decade. This is because many different companies started to appear. The most significant one is the automobile industry, which promotes many other different industries such as the oil and gas industries, the steel industry, the rubber industry, the concrete industry or the aviation and chemical industries. It also leads to create a system of roads and highways. The dollar replaced the pound and the use of credit started …show more content…
Many African-Americans left the South in great numbers and went to places such as New York, Chicago, Cleveland, etc. This is called the Great Migration. There were movements that suggested them to go back to Africa, even when there were some of them that had never been there. One of the people that promoted this was Marcus Garvey. Anyways, just a few people did this. Most of them just created their own African-American culture. There was a Klan against colored people, called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), who surprisingly became really powerful. Immigrants from Europe, Asia and Mexico increased too. There was a hostile defensive reaction towards immigrants because the people were afraid of losing power or control. Therefore, the immigration was cut to 150,000 per year by 1924 and Asians were