US History 1865 - 1945 , 1920s Culture

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The Roaring Twenties

The 1920 's in the United States became exemplified by F . Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby . It was a story of indulgence , frivolity and irresponsibility , but a wonderful and captivating story theless It was only towards the end of the 1920 's that the Great Depression put a startling and morbid end to the `spend , spend , spend ' idea but it became known as an era of growth in terms of invention , political climate and economics . The identity and importance of women as a social

br class on their own changed dramatically and with inventions such as automobiles , film and advertising , the nature of individual life also changed

Also known as the `Jazz Age , the 1920 's were an era when America had become an economic powerhouse (Cheek , 2005 . Yet it was not only a time for growth in all areas of society because it saw the uprising of secular social issues such as racism and the Ku Klux Klan (Cheek , 2005 There was also what Jerrie Cheek explains was a bipolar society , rabid faith and extreme cynicism as well as polarity in hope and despair (Cheek , 2005 . Evidently there was dissention in all areas of the country 's arena which probably in fact contributed or related to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 . If the climate itself is historically analyzed , we see that the world had just come out of World War I and the 1920 's were a welcome relief from the hardship encountered during the war . However , this relief proved to be false and as Cheek has already explained it was a decade of cultural conflict (Cheek , 2005 . The growing pains experienced by the United States ultimately led to confusion regarding acceptability or tolerance of different cultural groups as society itself changed (Cheek , 2005 . This happens at times when society is changing too fast for the individuals within it to assimilate the change . The Roaring Twenties were indeed seen as a period of overindulgence and films today portray the time as one of pure frivolity , but negates the difficulties that were seen in terms of migration and cultural intolerance

The intolerance of black people in the South along with a continuing violence towards black people led essentially to a demographic shift of black migrants to the North (Schultz , Lecture 09 , 1999 . The migration though in seek of better tolerance in fact challenged even the Northern idealism surrounding what the place of the black person was in the new United States (Schultz , Lecture 09 , 1999 . Sadly , in a time when great change was occurring some of the population were left behind and those people would invariably be the previously enslaved black population However , it was not only the intolerance that caused them to migrate but also the large number of job openings in unskilled factory positions in the northern urban areas (Schultz , Lecture 09 , 1999

The dawning of women 's rights came with the right to vote in 1919 but quieted down shortly...