Roaring twenties (1920's)

Bryn S.

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The twenties may initially seem like a time of innovation in terms of technological advances, pop culture's immense growth, and a major boost in the economy along with many other advances that would make this time period seem to make a "roar" to America waking us up and making us better in every facet. This, however, is nowhere near the truth as the roaring twenties were a time of pros and cons. As one thing succeeded in the time period, another would fail.

Introduction
Ban on consumption
Liquor smuggling
The illegal activities
Economic recovery phase after the WW 1
The earnings of the American families
The years after the WWII
Conclusion

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[...] The years after WWI were overall really bad in terms of American attitude. These years could have been characterized by many factors such as social unrest and violence, economic difficulties, labor unrest, a growing fear of immigrants and communism, racial tension, a rising middle class, much more leisure time, and prohibition and gangsters. As you can imagine, there were many acts of violence being demonstrated because of this. Strikes were becoming much more common and dangerous. One particular strike and one of the greatest single acts of labor was the Great Steel Strike in January of 1920 involving 350,000 steelworkers; it ultimately ended in failure. [...]

[...] for them to make more money such as bribing of police or even government officials. They also sometimes forced local businesses to pay a fee for their “protection” otherwise the mob would gun them down. Ultimately this lead to many gang wars most notably, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of February in which Capone's men, disguised as cops, murdered seven of Bugs Moran's men in a bloody scene. This was the result of an ongoing rivalry between the South Side Italian Gang and Capone versus the North Side Irish gang and Moran. [...]

[...] In other words, these people were getting rich and getting rich quick! More and more people began to invest making prices higher and higher since everybody, obviously, wanted to get rich. However, there was a dark cloud above all this as not everybody got a piece of the pie! Farmers didn't prosper during this time as new machinery was producing more ultimately lowering their prices. Blacks also didn't do well during these times since farmers were laying off a bunch of their workers and migrating north looking for work there. [...]

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