During the Roaring Twenties many people had, as William H. Leuchtenberg said, ‘“get-rich-quick”’, [Doc 2]. And man people did get rich quick. Everybody wanted a piece o the pie that was economic prosperity, but that pie has to run out eventually. With this idea in the heads of millions of Americans extreme overexpansion of many aspects of society led to the “adversity soon demonstrated,” [Doc 1]. John D. Hicks cites just some of the factors that “account for the plunge from prosperity to adversity”.
The social geography of the country altered dramatically. The encouragement given to homeownership helped spawn the suburban sprawl that would characterize postwar growth. As Michael Bennett, author of the main history of the GI Bill noted: “The GI Bill changed where and how Americans lived. Suburbs sprang up like mushrooms around every sizable city.... As surely as the Homestead Act of 1862 filled the prairies of the Far West, the GI Bill created and filled the suburbs.”
The 1920s and 1950s both had great economies. The 1920s was a time of tremendous prosperity. This decade marked the flourishing of the modern mass-consumption economy, which gave profits to investors while raising the standards for the middle and working class. During the 1950s, Americans achieved a level of prosperity that they had never known before.
The 1920’s The decade of the 1920’s is best described as “Boom to Bust.” In the beginning people were having a very good time, not just at parties but economically and culturally. Even though the 18th amendment was passed in 1919, making the sale of alcohol illegal, people still drank, mostly in secret. There were tons of inventions that really got people moving and spending such as electricity/lights, the automobile, credit, and the modern radio. Everyone in the 1920’s was feeling good, making a lot of money, and buying whatever they wanted, but all of the ended with the crash of the stock market.
The Aztec and Inca Empires were two empires that grew their power and success through innovation. The Aztec Empire was an empire located in modern-day Mexico. This empire was a widespread empire, with its capital city of Tenochtitlan resting on an island in the middle of a lake. Due to the empire being very widespread, a road system was necessary to connect the empire and maintain control. With the location of the capital city, came the extreme need for a new, more advanced system of agriculture.
Life in urban America during the Great depression affected every person, every race, and every community. The number of homeless rose exponentially. The homeless formed little communities called Hoovervilles. (Shultz, 2014). They made shelters out of whatever scraps they could glean.
While others believe if was more from post war. No matter whose option was right, both agreed the United States increased dramatical in a short time period. Although the United States was building more suburbs, it would had succeeded without the Baby Boom. Within nine months after WWII the Baby Boom started.
There was by pattern of urban flight (the process in which Americans left the cities and move to the suburbs) and at mid-century; the population of cities exceeded that of suburbs in 2000s. causes of herbal change could 've included the movement of jobseeking Americans into urban area, overcrowding, increased crime rates, and decaying housing as well as space, privacy and security. In the mid-1990s, the value of property in the U.S. inner cities declined and gentrification (purchasing and rehabilitating deteriorating urban property) often displaced lower-income people. In 2008, Americans were older than ever before due to the aging of the baby boom generation and increased longevity. There was also a change in the immigrant population;
However, with the new change happening in America from coast to coast, many people were uncomfortable with all the drastic changes happening all at once. Eventually the “Roaring 20’s”
America in the 1950s was growing in military power and the economy was becoming more and more prosperous. The civil rights movement was just beginning. Also happening in the 1950s was the baby boom, where there was more than twenty-four million young children in America. The baby boom caused the suburban boom. There was a high need for more homes, so people began to buy land outside of cities.
Inspired by european city rebuilding projects, American cities started clearing away older neighborhoods and creating grand avenues with impressive buildings. The only problem with the growing population was finding housing for the new residents. In Document 6 Nash explains how urban geography changed with emerging central businesses, few people living downtown, middle class residential areas stretched out beyond working class neighborhoods, and the growth of the suburbs which led to better transportation. Many of the rich lived in palatial mansions in the heart of the city while the moderately well to do took advantage of less expensive land on the outer edges of the city thus leading to what was known as the growth of the suburbs. However the poor could not afford housing in the city or in the suburbs and this led to the growth of tenement housing.
Levittown in New York city was a great example of suburbanization where over ten thousand homes were built for over four thousand people. Living further from the city meant that more people needed cars. Most Americans became owners of at least one car which led to the construction of malls, shopping centers, and drive through restaurants. Rock n roll became famous with all its famous stars like Elvis Presley, but all of them were white. When speaking about that era, Americans believed in equal opportunity, which was sadly, only a belief, since it was not provided neither embodied in real
Since transportation was easier and faster, people could live in the suburbs on the edge of towns. For example, queens outside New York doubled in size in the 1920s. By the end of the 1920s, more than 26 million cars were sold, and lots of new towns were created. Another advancement that is important is the development of trucks. In the beginning, trucks were old fashioned and had lots of flaws.
The creating of suburbs and purchasing power was becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider variety of families. Suburban houses also brought about needs for products that were not needed in urban neighborhoods, such as lawnmowers and automobiles. During this time commercial shopping malls were being developed near suburbs to satisfy consumers' needs and their car-dependent lifestyle. For example, Long Island, New York was the first large scale suburban area to develop thanks to William Levitt’s Levittown, New York. This was mostly built for
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