The United States during the 1920s was a time of great change socially, economically, culturally and politically. The ideals of United States citizens were shifting to create a new kind of people. The United States had just left World War I, and had to consider what their new lives would be like. During wartime, women had to provide for their families in ways that they had never had to before. Responsibilities and ideologies of the common man had been progressively reformed. For the first time the United States experienced a boom in consumerism and commercialism which only lead up to the Great Depression in 1929 but, made the American working class more important than ever. Socially, prohibition was issued and divided the nation, but didn’t keep people from continuing to drink. Organized crime started to crop up in all major urban areas occurring in organized gangs, as well as the Klu Klux Klan. There was …show more content…
(Goldberg). Overall, Americas were rethinking and remaking the rules that they lived by. The ideals of reform and more liberal thinking provided change that influenced what the country currently is today, and hopefully will continue to be. All of these changing forces were exemplified in all forms of art and entertainment, particularly film.
During the 1920s women revolutionized a brand new kind of freedom for themselves unlike any other era in history. The strict social constructs of times past were now completely overlooked and rewritten. During the progressive era, women demanded to be seen as full citizens and to have equal responsibilities as men. These series of epic changes all started during World War I, when many men went overseas. This left women to take on the responsibilities left behind by men, and gain a new feeling of freedom from the rigid social structure that required women to be caretakers of the home. Women were finally able to gain employment such as