1920s American Dream Essay

The American Dream, a common phrase used to imply that America is the land of dreams. During the 1920’s, or the Roaring twenties/Jazz Age, the American dream was defined as the idea that anyone no matter their background or social class could achieve success and prosperity. All they needed was hard work and determination. Was this entirely true… let's find out. During the 1920’s there was a significant growth in the economy which led to an increase in people becoming wealthy and prosperous. This is great because who doesn’t wanna be rich and have wealth beyond comprehension? The downfall of this was due to how many people believed their outcome would be the same. As much as we would love for this to be true, it just was not the case. During this time racial discrimination was very apparent and inequalities gave

Prosperity had ended. The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression. This was a wild time because all this talk of the american dream and how great America is, then this happens. The stock market crashes and the amazing government we all know and love is nowhere to be found. It was around this time that people realized the government was never our friend but more of an authority and unless you were rich or part of the government you weren’t safe. Now I understand that things happen, that's understandable to say after what you read but let me elaborate further and put this into perspective a little better. All the banks that people were using at the time lost their customers' money. People's banks at the time that people trusted and used to store their money safely, lost their customers' money. Instead of the government immediately trying to fix the issue, they waited. This Bank failure went on for around 15 months or a year and some months before anything was