Essay On The 1920s

When analyzing the 1920s three things may come to mind. The idea of the roaring 20s being the greatest time to be alive or prohibition or you might even think about the women's suffrage movement. All three of these ideas shaped the rest of the 20th century. In 1920 both probation and the right to women to vote were passed. Probation or the ban on alcohol saw the rise of government control on private matters regarding the American people, something we will see more in the 1930s and 40s.

Another key cultural impact would be the woman suffrage movement. Not only did they get the right to vote, which in my opinion is at least in the top 20 amendments ever written…Get it because it's the 19th amendment they also started to work more jobs instead

For the first time ever in American history more people lived in urban and in cities than people who lived on farms because of this more people had a shared identity. A key contributing factor of this would be the radio, the ability to have multiple people listening to one broadcast greatly connected the country. At the beginning of the decade then there were only 5 radio stations in the country and by the end of the decade had 606 stations across America. The radio played News Entertainment and Music and at the time Jazz was the most popular. Played on the radio and at almost every dancing club and social event creating unified songs of the decade. If the 20s had a Spotify wrapped it would 100% be Jazz music.Speaking of dancing the charleston was like TikTok dances of the 1920s.Lastly the model T ford allowed cars to be affordable and let citizens drive to a destination quicker than if they took a horse. Through the use of modernized technology, changes in gender roles, a strong economy because of our success in World War one these all made the 1920s what we now as today the roaring

Starting in 1929 the economic boom finally came to an explosion when the stock market crashed on October 19th 1929. This happened due to many people putting their savings into banks and into stocks often burrowing money to put into shares and sell for a profit this would work as long as the stock market kept rising on October 19th the stock market started to drop due to a decline in consumer demand many people panicked and thought their money was at risk so they pulled their money out of banks.people thought to make any money they would have to sell these stocks now rather than later and intern drove the stock market down further and further and due to the amount of people who invested their money into the stock market lots of people lost money they were not expecting to lose. A great majority of people lost money so there was less money going back into the economy slowly bringing it lower and lower as time went on. A contributing factor to the Great Depression is due to companies not having enough money to pay its workers who would also then have less money to spend keeping the economy at a low