1920's Changes

The Decades That Changed America Crash! What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Oh no, it was the stock market in the late 1920’s. The 1920’s brought new art, different architecture styles, and a new consumer craze, which changed by the 1930’s. The 1930’s consisted of unemployment, disease, and homelessness. The 1920’s and 30’s were a time of social, political, and economic changes that helped shape the United States into what it is today. The 1920’s in America were known as the roaring twenties. The 1920’s was a time of mass consumerism, which is the purchase of standardized products or services by large numbers of customers. Many people in the United States are spending lots of money. Since there were so many people buying products,

Flappers changed the expectations of women in the 1920’s. Flappers were women who wore short, sleeveless dresses. The flappers also smoked and drank. Flappers are not the only women to change the standard. In 1920, the 19th amendment was passed which allowed women the right to vote. Women started going to women's colleges and made major contributions to law, science, literature, and medicine. Women wanted to change the traditional roles and behaviors that were set for them. One way they did this was they changed their fashion. They would have shorter hair and they would wear things like silk stockings. During World War One, women took the jobs that the men had. When the soldiers got back from the war, the unemployment rate was very high because there were no jobs left. At the same time, the United States was in an economic collapse. The economic collapse started with the stock market crash that started on October 24, 1929. There were multiple factors that influenced the stock market crash. One of them was over-inflated shares. Before the crash, people were buying and selling lots of shares. They did this because they were under the impression that they would make a lot of

This led to stock prices falling. People were losing tons of money, so they stopped spending, and that ruined the economy. The stock market crash then led to the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time in the United States when the economy was at an all-time low.. There were more than 15,000,000 people that were unemployed, and overall just a horrible time in the United States. It was caused by three main factors: the stock market crash, overproduction, and bank failures. During the depression, there was a very high rate of unemployment. There were not very many jobs, which meant there was no way to make money, which led to many people losing their homes. Many people believed that President Herbert Hoover should be blamed for the Great Depression. He even had communities of homeless people named after him. The communities were called “Hoovervilles”. The “Hoovervilles” were communities of homeless people that lived in makeshift shelters. Herbert Hoover was blamed for the Great Depression, but Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president that brought us out of it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd