African American Culture In The 1920s

The United States (U.S.) has gone through many changes throughout its long and harrowing history. All of these stages of U.S. history are influential in their own ways. But the most influential era of United States history is 1914 through 1920. While WWI was a bloody and sad war it pioneered modern technology like no other era in American history. WWI was a war that started because of the assasination of archduke ferdinand on june 28,1914 (“CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I”). While the 1920s developed culture in the U.S. significantly primarily with African Americans. WWI and its aftermath significantly changed the U.S. socially within the women's rights movement, Culturally with jazz and African Americans, and economically with people's lives in the United States. The work women put in during WWI helped a lot in the fight for womans suffrage. During WWI there were groups of women who would treat the injured men they were called war 7’ nurses. These nurses played a vital part in showing that women should not just be associated with housing and taking care of children. The war nurses

Henry Ford was the man who fused automobiles and the assembly line into the perfect mix allowing for faster production and better quality (“Henry Ford: Technology and Innovation in the 1920s | College Reading and Writing”). Another economic change was the great depression which affected america negativly. The great depression was a downturn in mondern economy. The great depression started on the stock market crash of October 1929 when the dow jones industrial average declined nearly thirteen percent (Richardson et al.). This led to a series of consecutive stockmarket crashes which destroyed buisnesses and caused a lot of financial troubles a lot of homes (Richardson). The Great depression and Henry Fords work still affects us today like the social security act and in the way cars are made and