The 1920's: The Roaring Twenties
Abstract
It was a time of prosperity and startling contrast in American life. World War I was over, women got the right to vote, fashion took a liberal turn, and alcohol was outlawed, jazz filled the air and airwaves, and just about everybody who could afford it, went to the movies in roaring twenties.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties had the reputation as a decade of play and prosperity. Unemployment in the twenties was low and many Americans were better financially; but real wealth was concentrated among just a few families. Sixty percent of Americans riches were owned by only two percent of the people. With the end of World War I, the country desperately wanted to return at the normal, but prices shot upward with the increased …show more content…
Here people were still lives on their parents and grandparents head. Throughout the 1920’s new technologies would transformed in daily life. At the beginning of the decade most lived without electricity, America was electrified in the 1920’s. The Government was spending billions on roads, highways and bridges. Advertisements on the roadways was new phenomenon. Advertisement was helping not just to transfer physical landscape but also the cultural. Radio was also becoming as important as cars in 1920’s. Almost every store in the America even grocery stores were selling radios. Suddenly all Americans were listening same things, laughing at the same jakes. Along with technological pattern, the social pattern also begun to shift. Expanding job market had given women more and more career and the disposable income to do with what they wish. In the 1920, according to the nineteenth amendment, now women had right to vote. According to the “Sixty-sixth Congress Of the United States Of America” signed by the Speaker of the house of Representatives and Vice president of the United States, “The right of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of Sex” (1). Women changed a lot in almost everywhere, she thought she had right to live for herself rather than for her family, she went to bars, she went to after-hours club, she went to parties. Women were now
It was a time of prosperity and startling contrast in American life. World War I was over, women got the right to vote, fashion took a liberal turn, and alcohol was outlawed, jazz filled the air and airwaves, and just about everybody who could afford it, went to the movies in roaring twenties.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties had the reputation as a decade of play and prosperity. Unemployment in the twenties was low and many Americans were better financially; but real wealth was concentrated among just a few families. Sixty percent of Americans riches were owned by only two percent of the people. With the end of World War I, the country desperately wanted to return at the normal, but prices shot upward with the increased …show more content…
Here people were still lives on their parents and grandparents head. Throughout the 1920’s new technologies would transformed in daily life. At the beginning of the decade most lived without electricity, America was electrified in the 1920’s. The Government was spending billions on roads, highways and bridges. Advertisements on the roadways was new phenomenon. Advertisement was helping not just to transfer physical landscape but also the cultural. Radio was also becoming as important as cars in 1920’s. Almost every store in the America even grocery stores were selling radios. Suddenly all Americans were listening same things, laughing at the same jakes. Along with technological pattern, the social pattern also begun to shift. Expanding job market had given women more and more career and the disposable income to do with what they wish. In the 1920, according to the nineteenth amendment, now women had right to vote. According to the “Sixty-sixth Congress Of the United States Of America” signed by the Speaker of the house of Representatives and Vice president of the United States, “The right of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of Sex” (1). Women changed a lot in almost everywhere, she thought she had right to live for herself rather than for her family, she went to bars, she went to after-hours club, she went to parties. Women were now