| The period is called the Roaring Twenties because it | | | | the minimum wage was $5 which was adequate |
| describes the aggressive air that hovered in America | | | | during that time. Development of infrastructures |
| throughout 1920s. There are many names that are | | | | started to soar high. Because of these |
| associated with the 1920s like the Jazz Age, Age of | | | | developments, America became the richest country |
| Wonderful Nonsense and Age of Intolerance. | | | | in the world. |
| Nevertheless it's called, the period personifies the | | | | The second half of the roaring twenties was also |
| beginning of Modern America. The 1920s era brought | | | | called the Golden Twenties because economic |
| about a lot of different changes, both good and bad | | | | development soared in Germany, Britain and France. |
| for modern America. Changes suchs as hairstyles and | | | | The 1920s steered and enriched American writing |
| the changes in the kind of music that they were into. | | | | with outstanding works from famous authors like |
| North America is not the only country that | | | | Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, F., Scott Fitzgerald, |
| experienced the roaring twenties, Paris, London and | | | | Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. Jazz Age came |
| Berlin also experienced the roar. It highlights the | | | | in with a distinctive kind of American music. The |
| period's social, artistic and cultural dynamism, including | | | | genre of Jazz, which started as a medium for |
| the several inventions and discoveries which signified | | | | expressing African sentiments, now produced great |
| exceptional industrial growth and an increase of | | | | music players like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and |
| consumer demand and aspirations that eventually led | | | | Fletcher Henderson. Some have even brought their |
| to a considerable change in lifestyle at that time. | | | | jazz influences to Broadway and concert halls. |
| There were close to 150,000 anarchists or | | | | Entertainment today is a product of the |
| Communists living in the U.S. during this decade. Public | | | | entertainment during the twenties. It was at this age |
| confusion began in North America and spread like | | | | when Walt Disney produced his first cartoon, Alice in |
| wildfire to Europe which was then reparing itself. | | | | Wonderland. Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino are |
| However, provincialism was clearly what North | | | | a few of the great actors during that period who got |
| America was headed. Ku Klux Klan reappeared and | | | | great box office success and they introduced dances |
| immigration laws started to be restraining and limiting. | | | | including Foxtrot, Charleston and Flagpole sitting and |
| The twenties was the end of the first word war and | | | | flying stunts. This period was also the time of Babe |
| weapons were no longer needed so the US focused | | | | Ruth and other sport figures who afterwards |
| into a more peaceful economy. During that period, | | | | became heroes. |