The Roaring Twenties Research Paper

The Roaring Twenties was the golden age in American history. People all over had money to spend. They spent the money on all the innovations such as the radio and the automobile. The stock market was the golden ticket to wealth. Society grew in the twenties. Women became more independent and began to feel equal with men. African Americans had a renaissance of beautiful art and culture. Jazz Clubs and Cinemas began to pop up all over cities in America. Art and music flourished as well as dance and fashion. The Twenties made Americans feel that Harding's Campaign and his goal to get back to normalcy was happening.

Although the Twenties seemed great, then a change would happen to make a dark side of the twenties. The Prohibition, which forbidden

The name Mafia was first given to a loose association of Sicilians who worked together for protection and law enforcement during the spanish occupation of the island (“Organized Crime.”). During the late 19th and 20th century, a rush of Italian immigrants who were mostly, farmers, craftsmen and unskilled laborers, poured into the United States in search of better economic opportunities. In cities like New York, the immigrants believed that the opportunities they were searching for were most plentiful. Cities became the hotspots for organized crime due to the amount of immigrants that settled in them, In New York City, the number of Italians soared from 20,000 to 250,000 between 1880 and 1890, and by 1910, that number rose to 500,000 immigrants and first-generation Italian Americans (history.com staff.). Majority of the immigrants were law-abiding, but some became criminals who formed gangs and organized crime. These immigrants searching for money through crime needed a spark to really increase their income, and on January 29, 1919 a newly ratified amendment gave them that

His political shield could no longer protect him and the Obanion mob and Bugs Morgan were breathing down his neck. On February 13, 1929 someone called Bugs Moran and offered him a truckload of whiskey at a very low price. The booze were to be delivered to a Moran warehouse the next morning. As Bugs was walking to the warehouse, Moran saw a police car with uniformed and plainclothes officers draw up to the door. Bugs Moran left in fear of a raid. The four offices lined up seven men working in the warehouse and killed them all. This is known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Capone-paid gangsters killed the warehouse workers and finished off the O’Banion mob and Bugs Moran. This gave Capone full control of Chicago (Waller,