Roaring 20s - A Quick Look

The era known as the Roaring Twenties, because it describes the aggressive air, hovered in the U.S. during the 1920s. Sometimes it is also referred to as the Jazz Age, Age of Intolerance or the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Many names may be associated with this era, but this period is simply emergence of the modern U.S.. 1920s era created a variety of changes, both good and bad of modern America. Changes in styles and changes in the kind of music they had to.

North America is not the only country that experienced the roaring twenties, Paris, London and Berlin also experienced the roar. It highlights the period of social, artistic and cultural dynamics, including several inventions and discoveries described the extraordinary industrial growth and an increase in consumer demand and expectations, which eventually led to a significant change in lifestyle at the time.

There were close to 150 thousand anarchists or communists who live in the U.S. in this decade. Northern American public was confused and this confusion spread rapidly to Europe, which still had to rebuild itself during this time. North America, on the other hand, was headed the other way and went back into provincialism. Due to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Calneh laws were limited and more restrained.

At the start of the Roaring Twenties, when weapons of World War I was no longer necessary, the U.S. converted their financial systems in a peacetime economy. During this period, the minimum wage $ 5, which was sufficient during that time. Better roads, tourism and resorts began sprouting and real estate soared high. Because of this development was America's richest country in the world.

At that time, half of the decade was through economic development heavily in Europe, especially in Germany, Britain and France, so that the second half of the Roaring Twenties was also known as the Golden Twenties.

Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway. and William F. Faulkner were writers who enriched American wrote with brilliant works. Jazz Age came in with a characteristic form of American music. The genre of Jazz, which started as a medium for expressing African feelings now produced great music players like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. Many jazz musicians brought the music to Broadway and concert halls.

Entertainment today is the product of entertainment during the twenties. It was in this age when Walt Disney produced its first cartoon, Alice in Wonderland. Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino are some of the brilliant actors in this period, which received great box office success, and they imported dances like Foxtrot, Charleston and Flagpole sitting and flying stunts. This period was also the time Babe Ruth and other sports figures who became heroes.