The Pros And Cons Of The Jazz Age

Was the Jazz Age Really that Jazzy? The Jazz Age, one of the most influential and innovative times in American history, took place during what is known as the “Roaring twenties”. The economy was booming, inventions were coming in left and right, history was changing in front of everyone's eyes, and the new industrial age had made its first big steps. New York was the biggest city on planet earth during these times. They had all the money coming to them through Wall Street, everyone wanted to party in the city, and if you wanted to make it big and achieve the “American Dream”, New York was the place to be. But like every other time in history, it had pros and cons. The infamous group, known as the Ku Klux Klan (aka the KKK), roamed freely

Even though this time had some very bad cons and very good pros, this time was one of the greatest in American, if not the world, history. The whole century of the 1920’s was essentially one big, long, and crazy party. Even though alcohol was illegal it was flowing in speakeasies like water, making it illegal only made it cheaper for people to get their hands on it. As everyone was getting wasted in these secret clubs, the social rules that had been in place since the beginning of America seemed to have crumbled. Girls took on the nickname “flappers” because of certain dresses they wore that showed more skin than any man had ever seen in public before, dancing and music was always part of anywhere you went, many people seemed to not care what they were witnessed by others doing or saying and cared more about having fun. In a video we

Cars, radios, and the stock market are just a few examples. The economy boomed with more potential stocks to be owned and even more products to be consumed. Many businesses' stock values multiplied by six times in just a few years. As there were even more people who wanted these consumables, businesses needed to find a way to make as many as possible in as short a time as possible. Thus creating the mass-production we know and love today. Companies would combine their money, people who needed jobs, and electricity to pump out many products for even more money in their pockets. Most industries started to catch onto this plan and made an unbelievable amount of money, so did their stockholders. In the article, The 1920’s, it states “This decade marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production, mass consumption economy, which delivered fantastic profits to investors while also raising the living standard of the urban middle and working-class.” This period of flourishment raised the standard of living for anyone middle class and above. The downside to this is it made the poor poorer and the rich richer. In the same article, The 1920’s, it states “For the large minority of Americans who made their livelihoods in agriculture, however, the decade roared only with the agony of prolonged depression.” As you know, most of the south were people who made their livelihoods in