The Roaring Twenties: Decade Of Transformation

Throughout the week, celebrity flappers such as Lois Long or Clara Bow could talk about their favorite products, clothes, music, and movies. By doing so, they would be endorsing products and their respective companies. Since many flappers engaged in enticing leisure activities previously limited to men; including smoking, drinking, and dancing the Black Bottom and Charleston, stories from their experiences would be very interesting for young women in New York to hear. Everything from flappers’ career ventures to their casual relationship endeavors could inspire the audience to assert their independence and choose the lifestyle they wanted. Adopting a boxy, unisex silhouette that flattened the appearance of their curves defined the flapper’s unusual style of sexualizing androgyny. The flapper’s image challenged traditional values by introducing the idea that women were fearless in their battle for equal rights, thus representing the active feminist movement of the 1920s to empower the radio show’s audience.

The 1920’s was a great and important decade for the United States. After World War I, the United States went through events and changes that, overall, made the United States a much better place to live. New advances in technology and industry improved American life in more ways than just one. Americans had better wages during this time, more leisure time, and overall, had a better life than ever before. In addition, the 1920’s advocated social and cultural change as well. During this time period, the United States did not return to Normalcy, and instead developed attitudes that changed the life of the people of the United States forever thanks to social changes, cultural changes and changes in technology.

The United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom were alive with economic growth and widespread prosperity in the 1920’s. Know as the “Roaring Twenties,” because of its distinctive cultural edge and industrial growth. This era has many new inventions and scientific advancements; making it a truly unique time period especially in medical practices. Life expectancy was greatly improved and the 20’s contributed many breakthroughs in medicine that we take for granted today. The Roaring Twenties has brilliant advancements such as penicillin, insulin, and the iron lung.

The Roaring Twenties of America, which was from 1920-1929, saw a great social and economic prosperity. People were happy, and were celebrating the victory of World War 1. The gasoline price was lowered, right to vote for women was granted, and America was climbing towards a great success. In 1929, Herbert Hoover became the president of the United States of America, and he said, “ Given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation”(Roark, Pg. 703). After few months of his inauguration, his words contradicted, the Roaring Twenties halted. During the Roaring Twenties, the stock market prices increased steeply. The rapid

Kaiya Tan Mrs. Smith CHC 2D1 April 29, 2024 The Roaring Twenties The 1920s was a period filled with social, economic, and political changes for many Canadians. The roaring twenties roared because there were many political changes made for women. In 1920 the right for women to be elected for parliament was made official and permanent through the Dominion Election Act (Armour and Stanton 1992).

The boom of the decade before the Wall Street Crash was evidently called “The Roaring Twenties”. The main source, the capital, is needed to produce goods of value out of raw, unprocessed materials. Capital comes in the form of mostly buildings, machinery and money. A factory is a building where goods are manufactured or compiled predominantly by machines. Throughout the twentieth century, most of the capital in the United States was symbolized by stocks. This was known as a corporation owned by capital. Ownership of the corporation in turn took the form of shares of stock. Each share of stock illustrates a reciprocal share of the corporation. The stocks were bought and procured on stock exchanges, of which the most important was the New York

The twenties saw tons of changes in mindset and showed everyone in the world that nothing was impossible if you put your mind to it. Seemingly impossible feats were accomplished in the twenties like the first ever liquid fueled rocket launch and the invention of a miracle drug. But those were not the only things that were happening then. Fashion was changing, it was more acceptable for women to show skin. Rules changed, the 18th amendment made the drinking of beer illegal, sparking the widespread desire to do just that. And the movie world was flipped upside down, leaving the first ever cartoon synchronised with sound. All of these changes had big

The Roaring 20’s a period in American history when everything was at a high. The First World War had just ended and everyone had party mindset. The American social life was at an all time high along the economy. Then everything changed as the roaring economy plummeted drastically, lowering the quality of American life. With this drastic change in the quality of American life came significant change in American literature. Surprisingly the great depression highly benefited American literature. During the Roaring 20’s American literature was dominated by the two household names of Hemmingway, and Fitzgerald. However, once the great depression took place names such as Mitchell, Steinbeck, and even Dr. Seuss came into the literature world. This

The 1920s, or better known as the roaring twenties changed the lives of women in America politically, physically and mentally. Women were granted more freedom, the right to vote, changed their physical appearance, and focused on materialistic goals instead of moral values. Before World War I, women would wear a high collar, long straight skirts below the knee and long hair that was tied loosely. The roaring twenties brought along swing dancing and jazz which changed the way women dressed and danced. Not only did the roaring twenties bring along flourishing taste in music, but flappers came into play. Flappers were women who wore short sparkly dresses, cut their hair into a bob, wore heavy make-up, drank alcohol, smoked cigarettes and partied all night.

There is a controversial debate about the 1920s, whether it was “roaring” or whether is was destitute. In the perspective of some historians, the 1920s brought a rapid increase in urbanization and boom in the economy, however, these historians fail to see the evident terrors that the 1920s brought. The positive uproar on the 1920s did not stand a chance against the rising negative roar of residential schools, the Stock Market Crash, and credit debt. Due to these tragic events, 1920s was brought a dark and negative atmosphere rather than one of contentment.

stemmed in a form of political fashion that arose to reflect changes in European society based on what women wore to express themselves. Fashion is a fundamental key in directing the habits and tastes of society due to influences such as the women’s movement and technology advances of this period. New styles and techniques came about and a new view of accepting public opinion was recognized by society. The world was in a flux of change. The role of fashion reflects this as women were beginning to express their newfound presence in choice of dress, from hairstyle, length of dress,

The 1920s, often referred to as the Roaring Twenties, was a time of great change and a time of powerful enthusiasm in many areas of society. The world had just finished the biggest war in history, the First World War, and the United States was left almost unharmed by the war. The United States was able to experience a decade of peace and success following the war. During this decade, America became the wealthiest country in the world (Trueman, 2000). The people in the United States went through a colorful period during the twenties. However, at the same time the 1920s was also a very rebellious and difficult time for many. The culture of the 1920s has influenced the culture of America’s society today.

After World War 1, America had to demobilize and revert back to a peace time economy. During the 1920’s, it was viewed as a prosperous economy since there was a new labor force due to demobilization, new inventions, and a new infrastructure. Also moral spirits were high since America along with the Allied Powers defeated Germany and the Great War was finally over. However, America began making many economic policies and decisions that will eventually lead up to the Great Depression.

In the early twentieth century, the gender roles were beginning to change with the emergence of the new woman. While women

In today 's society when we assess the differences between men and women they appear to be fairly similar. When we compare women 's rights and equalities to the 1900 's it 's clear to see we have made great strives. During the 1900 's women were treated as inferiors when compared to men and they were struggling to fight for their basic rights. During this time women were highly encouraged to marry at a young age and if they chose to go into the work force their options were limited to domestic jobs such as becoming a secretary, teacher or salesclerk. ("The Changing Role”, 2014). The 1920 's are referred to as "The Roaring Twenties” or the "The Jazz Age” and during this time an author by the name of Anita Loos produced the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. This novel is told from a first person perspective and uses a theme of satire to expose the absurdities of men 's views of women during the 1900 's.