1920s

If the 1920s never happened life in the 21st century would entirely different. After World War 1 life for Americans was changing drastically. People didn’t think or act the same way they had before the war, which changed their way of life. The expanding culture of African Americans, booming economic conditions, and controversy between old and new were a couple of factors that changed society in the 1920s. In the 1920s the expanding culture of African Americans was wildly represented by the Harlem

Due to the United States just getting out of the great war in 1918,it's 1920 and they needed to figure out a way to return to normalcy. Some had figured they could do that with the political,economical,social, and cultural aspects and coming together as one but things didn't always turn out as planned. During the 1920s there were many problems and isolation and immigrants were just two of the many. At the time the President was President Harding he was president from 1921-1923. The foreign policy

ways of life came about. Before the 1920s people had no respect for women, but the 1920s changed that for the better. Women were no longer treated as a man’s property and had more freedom inside and outside the home. It all started with the ratifying of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the opportunity to vote. One in four women had a paying job by 1930. A popular job for women to have was a flapper, which soon became the image of the women of the 1920s. To take on the role of the “flapper”

In the 1920’s American Society was a decade of exciting social changes and profound cultural conflicts. In the other way, the 1920’s also called “The Roaring Twenties” is because after the World War I, the economic growth were increasing more than double than before in the social life of the United States. Moreover, many companies grew larger and many new jobs opportunities created by the government with the high wages, so that the American had enough money to buy the new good stuff. When the Americans

The 1920s were a swanky set of years consisting of flappers, nightclubs, and the ever so popular Ford Model T. It was a time where everyone felt as if they were on top of the world, and could do anything they wanted. Adding to the new and improved pop culture, there was a 125% increase in movie attendance as well as an increase of 68,500% in radio ownership. All of these ‘roars’ of the 20s as well as many others were caused by the rise in the stock market. This security in thinking that money was

The 1920’s was known as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age and the era of wonderful nonsense. There were many changes that occurred during the 1920s. Women lives’ changed with the 19th amendment, working outside the home and fashion. Other changes were the Jazz Age and Prohibition. After World War I, Americans wanted to go “Back to Normalcy.“ In 1919 the women got the right to vote through the ratification of the 19th amendment. Women gained more job opportunities and were now able to run for political

Politics: Politically, the 1920s could be described as pro-business and anti-union. These two main principles of our political time period directly contrast that of the error of reforms pre-war America was in. Coming into this decade, the war has come to an end and now the U.S believes it is time for a hedonistic interlude. A time of less reforms and more business. Post-war America is a start of a new chapter for our young country which obviously comes with its own set of problems. After the war

In the 1920s women had their own fashion and if “fashion could be considered a political statement, then the fashions of the 1920's set the trend" (Boland). The war had just ended and customs, technology, and manufacturing all rocketed into the 20th century. No longer were women willing to wear old-fashion torture devices, like the corset, that limited them to go to work, dancing, or walk around town. With the help of designers "women could choose beauty, individuality, functionality, and express

foundation for consumerism in the 1920’s. The shift to a consumer climate that indulged the individual was a relief after experiencing a survival point of view that is associated with a war time economy. Indulgence and maybe even reward are what individual attitude changed to in the majority of the urban centers. For the first time the technology of the age, shifting attitude of the populace and the economy of the nation aligned for an exciting roar of the 1920’s. Progressivism, flappers and the

Lucy Burnhams 15 April 2015 APUSH 1B 1920’s DBQ The 1920’s was a time of riches and brought a new age of commercialization to the United States. Traditional views clashed against the modern views the twenties inherited and therefore caused tensions between new and old ideas. The 1920’s tensions lied under religious, social, and political issues that sparked reform and advanced technology. Religious tensions in the 1920s were mainly between evolutionist and fundamentalist standpoints. With the