| The era is called the Roaring Twenties because it | | | | peacetime economy. Minimum wage was at $5 per |
| describes the aggressive air that hovered in America | | | | workday which was good at that time. Better roads, |
| during 1920s. Sometimes, it is also named as the Jazz | | | | tourism and holiday resorts started sprouting and real |
| Age, the Age of Intolerance or the Age of | | | | estate soared high. The country prospered after a |
| Wonderful Nonsense. However it's called, the period | | | | few years and America became the richest nation in |
| personifies the beginning of Modern America. From | | | | the world. |
| the 1920's hairstyles to the mainstream conquests of | | | | By the time half of the decade was through, |
| jazz, the Roaring Twenties exemplifies a time of | | | | economic development soared in Europe, particularly |
| change for everyone, a change that may somehow | | | | in Germany, Britain and France, so that the second |
| be viewed as both good and bad for modern | | | | half of the Roaring Twenties also became known as |
| America. | | | | the Golden Twenties. |
| The term, Roaring Twenties, not only covers North | | | | The 1920s steered and enriched American writing |
| America but also London, Paris and Berlin. It highlights | | | | with remarkable works from renowned authors like |
| the period's social, artistic and cultural dynamism, | | | | Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carl |
| including the several inventions and discoveries which | | | | Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. Jazz Age came in |
| signified exceptional industrial growth and an increase | | | | with a distinctive kind of American music. The genre |
| of consumer demand and aspirations that eventually | | | | of Jazz, which started as a medium for expressing |
| led to a considerable change in lifestyle at that time. | | | | African sentiments, now produced great music |
| There were close to 150,000 anarchists or | | | | players like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and |
| Communists living in the U.S. during this decade. Public | | | | Fletcher Henderson. Some have even brought their |
| confusion began in North America and spread like | | | | jazz influences to Broadway and concert halls. |
| wildfire to Europe which was then rebuilding itself. | | | | Entertainment around America began to leave its |
| North America, on the other hand, was headed the | | | | footprints as we follow them today. It was at this |
| other direction and went back into provincialism. Ku | | | | age when Walt Disney produced his first cartoon, |
| Klux Klan reappeared and immigration laws became | | | | Alice in Wonderland. Actors like Charlie Chaplin and |
| restraining and limiting. | | | | Rudolph Valentino drew fantastic box office success |
| At the start of the Roaring Twenties when weapons | | | | and dances like Charleston, Foxtrot, Flagpole sitting |
| for World War I were no longer needed, United | | | | and flying stunts became the fad on the dance floors. |
| States converted their financial systems into a | | | | Sports figures such as Babe Ruth became heroes. |