1920s

The 1920’s saw a big boom in the entertainment industry. After World War 1 many Americans had money to blow and turned to entertainment as a way to spend their extra cash. Music, movies, radios, plays, and sports all became popular forms of mass entertainment during this time period. Music was a big part of the Roaring Twenties. In fact, the Roaring Twenties is also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz became big after New Orleans closed its ports and most musicians had to move north to find work.…

Fashion, music, and the change of women. “Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, sometimes racy “mass culture”; in fact, for many–even most–people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small handful of young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed.” The small percentage of people living the world of celebration also had the…

they all tend to seek for joyful, entertaining and a new lifestyle. The 1920’s had its own good and bad to offer the economy, In which bad was: the red scare, Radical Violence, increasing Racial tensions, and poverty amongst Native Americans, and good was: advanced technology, better living conditions for middle-class, more revenue through consumer spending, automobile and boom in construction. Out of all industries in the 1920’s, the Automobile was the booming one. The Automobile industries…

Depression began after the Wall Street Stock Market Crash in 1929, the decade of the 1920’s began. It is in this context that notable change and minimal continuity took place. The 1920’s could be considered a decade of significant change due to the change in social atmosphere and economic stability. Although societal and economic changes took place, there was notable continuity due to traditional views on race. The 1920’s could be considered a decade of notable continuity due to nativists…

The 1920’s could be described as the coming of ages. Through many ways such as technology, the arts, sports, and women. Though there were great things with faster music and looser morals, there was one factor in the 1920’s that changed everything and it is known as prohibition. Prohibition means to get rid of something by the law. Prohibition did not put limitations on alcohol, instead caused bootleggers to sell their own alcohol and illegally selling alcohol lowers the reputation of the…

The era of the 1920s was the time for growth and technological advancement which helped reshape the economy and society of the United States. This was the time that the United States grew into a modernized and open society especially within the youth community. The 1920s had its successes as well as its disasters, it was a time period of renovation after the war. Issues of morality and politics molded politics more than the economic reform (Ayers 597). Music, movies, and technology became more…

The Golden Age During the 1920’s, people were having the time of their lives. Americans were partying and living easy on loans given by banks riding the wave of economic rise following World War 1. Despite the fact that drinking had become illegal at the time due to prohibition, people were finding ways to consume and doing so vigorously. The 1920’s, also know as the Jazz Age, was a period of cultural and stylistic transition that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new…

Angel Maggi Mrs. Park English 11 January 13, 2017 Flappers and the 1920’s The 1920’s was an era of change in many ways. Women won the right to vote and more jobs became available for them. Drinking and smoking became popular among women. Flappers liked to go out with friends and have fun. Some women became Flappers and their fashion changed dramatically. Young people gained more freedom. One of the freedoms that came about was that women began focusing on their own lives and what they wanted to…

and Coco Chanel, all shaping to be this modernism era we call “The Roaring Twenties”. The 1920’s into the 1930’s was an era of change, evolution, and new beginnings, bringing new view to the eye of the American citizen pop culture, authors and historical events changed everything. During the 1920’s significant events were shaping the lives of American citizens. First thing that happened was on August 18th, 1920 the women’s suffrage act was ratified. Allowing women the right to have a role in…

The 1920s was the birth of a cultural revolution following WWI. The parties were wild, the jazz was hot, the fads were completely off the wall- and there was a new topic: sex. Women flaunted their new freedom to vote and cut their hair, applied makeup, and tossed out dowdy fashions of the past for shorter skirts and slinkier, more form fitting attire. Young and carefree, the flapper was the greatest and most influential symbol of the age because the attitudes of many women transformed and…