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What Was The Most Important Thing That Happened In The 1920's

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What do you think of when someone asks you about the roaring twenties? Do you think about the flappers or the speakeasies? Maybe even women's rights? There were so many important things that happened in the twenties. It was a time of change and excitement. The most important changes that happened in the twenties were women’s rights, the Ku Klux Klan, and the stock market crash of 1929. Women’s rights gave us independence and it allowed men to look at us like an equal and not as people who were lower than themselves. The Ku Klux Klan wasn’t a good thing about the twenties, but it was important to the change because it helped us realize how poorly we were treating people of other races and religions. The stock market crash of 1929 wasn’t a good thing either; it was the end of the roaring twenties and the start of the great depression. …show more content…

Before the twenties, women weren’t seen as equals. We didn’t have voting rights and we couldn’t get jobs. When the twenties came the world's whole perspective of women changed. We cut our hair short, started showing more skin, we applied for jobs and actually got them, and we started going out and having a good time. Women became more independent and we stopped needing men to do everything for us. We had a way to make our own income and support ourselves. We didn't have to get married if we didn't want to, and we didn’t have to answer to anyone. Right for women was becoming more and more equal to men’s. Proof of this was in 1920 when women gained the right to vote. With our right to vote came the equality and the respect that we sought and that we

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