Essay On The 1920's

People often tend to view the 1920’s as a prosperous time period in American history, American citizens capitalizing from the flourishing economy, by living lavish lifestyles, obnoxiously massive parties. However, this wasn’t the lifestyle for every American in the United States. This was an exception to only the wealthy and elite Americans that controlled markets and major business in the economy. Whether that is a legitimate or illegitimate business, these Americans were profited vastly. Middle class and lower class American took to the newly established movie theatres in order to observe glimpses of these idolized lifestyles. Although newly innovated technology such as automobiles, radios, bridges, skyscrapers allowed the advancement of

American women protested that men in the United States we’re consuming and purchasing too much alcohol. Which led to Men beating their wives and children, and not being able to afford to pay the families bills. Congress eventually responded by banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquor. Becoming the 18th Amendment, this brought new opportunities for Americans seeking employment in the United States. Americans began conducting illegal business in order to produce or smuggle alcohol into the United States. They became known as “Bootleggers”, Bootlegger's began to profit vastly due to the constant demand of alcohol by Americans. Even though throughout the United States alcohol was illegal, many places of business became known as “speakeasies”, business that people could go to have a drink with friends, discreetly. Furthermore, prohibition actually had a few positive effects. The United States government couldn’t stop the vastly growing black market demand of alcohol. Also, the United States government was losing significantly profit from the taxation of alcohol. Congress came to the conclusion that prohibition is too difficult to enforce and wanted the tax revenue from alcohol. Congress established the 21st Amendment to the constitution that was a resolution to the prohibition by repealing the 18th Amendment in