Essay On The Roaring Twenties

The roaring twenties also know as the jazz age, was a time of change for everyone. It was a time of entertainment and nonsense, and in which alcohol was involved. Alcohol has been invented for many years but it was never caused great chaos as it did in the nineteen twenties. Alcohol was a major key part in the history of the roaring twenties and created major history movements. In a more detail aspect, the roaring twenties, also known as the jazz age, was a period characterized by “rapid changing lifestyles, finically excess, and the fast pace of technological process”1 woman were being viewed more independent; they would dress in a more flashy way, they smoked, had new hairstyles, drank, and were more “sexually free”2. New inventions were also brought to the surface and changed the world in profound ways. Inventions such as the traffic signal, radio broadcasting, television, Band-Aids, refrigerators, dishwasher, toaster, and the air conditioner. All these inventions brought great transformation towards the world and for future inventions. For the first time, the nineteen-twenties had an estimated population of over one hundred million people, and for most of the population, the nineteen twenties were seen as a time of partying and having

Many believed that without it crime would decrease, however, it did the complete opposite. Because of the prohibition, the liquor trade drove underground. Now instead of selling alcohol legally in public places such as bars, and stores, it was now sold and traded illegally. These illegal sales were controlled by” bootleggers, racketeers and other organized crime figures.” One of those figures being Al Capone; Capone was one of the largest crime rings in Chicago and “reportedly had 1,000 gunmen and half of Chicago’s police force on his payroll.”2 not only did he commit crimes of alcohol and smugglers but he also committed