The “Roaring” 20s In the early 1920s, people were celebrating. World War I ended in November of 1918, and many people were overjoyed. About 4.7 million American men served in the military, and the United States suffered a total of 436,516 casualties, with 116,516 dead. World War I is often referred to as “The Great War” and “The War to end all Wars”.
In the passage the text reaches to give examples on how society was shaped back in the 1920s. The author S. Fittzgealrd uses Tom Bucanon to express the views and concerns of the white population at the time. The text Tom Bucanon refers to or mirrors nazi speech. Showing how in the 1920s the german text had been translated into everyday white society norms and culture. Tom says their books casually refers to and almost encourages building up white power in order to keep minorities down.
The flapper represented the “modern woman” in American youth culture in the 1920’s, and was epitomized as an icon of rebellion and modernity. Precocious, young, stubborn, beautiful, sexual, and independent, the flapper image and ideology revolutionized girlhood. The term “flapper” originated in England to describe a girl who flapped and had not yet reached maturity.
Under the Declaration Independence, it says that everyone has the right to life. In America that does not apply to black people. In the early 1920s, there was a large race riot in Tulsa around 300 innocent black people were killed. It started when black shoe shiner Dick Rowland was arrested after being accused of assaulting a white woman in elevator published by a paper eager to win the local circulation war with the title “To Lynch Negro Tonight”. Whites gathered outside the courthouse of where Rowland was being held to lynch him, blacks came from Greenwood to protect Rowland.
In addition to economic prosperity and hero’s creating a bigger sense of optimism, the American people still had a thirst for entertainment. Movies and plays were becoming a new sensation as it allowed people to escape the realities of their live, giving them a notion of freedom. Some of the first movies to ever primer was Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie and the film, The Jazz Singer. The attendance to films was uncountable during the 1920’s.
Nearly 30 years later, the characteristics of the 1920s are present in repeating economic, political, and even social circumstances in the 1950s. Many portions of American history were transformed throughout these two memorable time periods, as the saying "history repeats itself" states. Looking back on the flourishing 1920s, many were relieved that the war was over and that life could return to normal. What happened in the 1950s was no different. The postwar prosperity and civil rights movement are the most widely recognized periods of these times.
The Great Decade Of the 1920’s “Did you know in the 1920ś”, American imports were numerous songs, and musical elements that referred to places or cultures considered to be exotic to Americans? (Pope) The 1920’s tied together a bunch of events from the decade to even the next decade. This decade separated the genre of jazz from ragtime and the blues. (Funk & Wagnalls)
Throughout the history of America, we as a nation have gone through many unique time periods. Whether it was during the colonial times where we fought for revolution or during the age of Manifest Destiny where we migrated West to fulfill our destiny or when we were battling through the Great Depression to fix and stabilize our economy all of these different times we have been through still bears an impact on our society as a whole today. A time period in specific I will be talking about is the Roaring 20s. The 1920s was an era of social and political change which sent America into the modern age, where for the first time Americans actually lived more in cities than farms. Along with that America itself doubled their total wealth in the span
Elijah TuckerThe Roaring 20s: A Time of Discovery and TurmoilAmerican history is something us as American citizens should take an initiative to learn about since it is what has brought us to this very point. The 1920s have always been a part of history that has always intrigued me and drawn me into making me want to learn more. This time period in our history was a time of discovery of one's self and of the things unknown. It was also a time of civil unrest and turmoil in our country.
The 1920’s was an uprising decade known as “the roaring twenties”. Big changes came with the 1920’s, new fashions, new technologies. Women began to have more rights, and Prohibition. Many People called the 1920’s the “age of excess” because American people could afford and buy anything they wanted. The 1920’s made america what it is today.
The 1920s carried much change in society. Some of these changes were more rights for women, jazz music, and prohibition. The people of the 1920s were disillusioned by society lacking in idealism and vision, sense of personal alienation, and Americans were obsessed with materialism and outmoded moral values (The Roaring Twenties).Cultural changes were strongly influenced by the destruction of World War I ending 1918. America needed to recover and with it youth rebelled against the norms of the older generations.
America experienced a sudden disregard of Victorian values following World War I, causing the generation of the 1920s to dramatically contrast the previous. This severe degree of change produced three major manifestations of the contradictions in the twenties. There were massive conflicts to the Jazz Age, technological advancements, and Black Migration. The contradictions of the 1920s reflect America’s conflicted state between advancement and convention, as the cultural and technological developments of the era coincide with the inability of individuals to stray from traditional norms and racist attitudes.
The 1920s: A Changing Era “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.” The quote said by William Pollard, a physicist and priest, shows how change comes from new advances in society. The 1920s was a growing and changing decade. It is often referred to as the Roaring Twenties.
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.
The 1920s, commonly referred to as the “Roaring Twenties”, is generally viewed as a time period of economic prosperity and extravagant living. However, these stereotypes were not the reality for many Americans and such illusions hid the deep cultural conflict that was bubbling beneath the surface. New, liberal ideals began to rise to the surfaces that conflicted with the traditional, conservative beliefs held by many Americans. The 1920s became a “cultural battlefield”, to quote Professor Mintz, with people clashing over such issues as immigration, alcohol, race, and evolution. A “cultural civil war” ensured as some supported the resulting “liberation” from America’s past, while others objected to the “decaying” morals that supposedly accompanied such changes.
