Essays on Roaring Twenties

The 1920’s was a decade full of lavish spending, bootlegging, and the want to fulfill the American Dream. On top of this, the people of America were high off of the renewed patriotism in the recent win of what was thought to be the war…

Introduction The Roaring Twenties was the decade which started with the celebration of the end of the “Great War” and ended catastrophically with the great “Crash” of Wall Street. That was a period where dramatic changes took place in the United States. “New Morality” appeared…

Women’s fashion before the 1920’s was seen as anything but open and racy. Everything they wore in that time was considered to be conservative and ideal. Their clothing had to fit the roles they played in everyday life. A traditional housewife was viewed as a…

Never has the world experienced a time period in which the culture is so dramatically altered in such a short amount of time as demonstrated in the 1920’s. This time period is often referred to as the “Roaring Twenties” or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s coined phrase,…

Prohibition began after World War I as an attempt to legislate morality and bring crime rates down. It was a time characterized by speakeasies, glamor, flappers, jazz music, and gangsters, and a period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. The…

The wealth and luxury of the Roaring Twenties caused many people to forget to criticize the “evil” large corporations and forget about the overworked, underpaid workers. During the Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the federal government cracked down on large corporations and strictly…

The Great Gatsby Essay The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the reality of the 1920’s in the United States. This was a time period in which people formed an obsession with obtaining easy money, in addition to the widespread scarcity of social values….

Documenting a time period through literature: Fitzgerald in the Roaring Twenties The “Roaring Twenties” had a significant impact on works of literature written during that time period. Between major cultural changes and economic prosperity in major cities, societal customs changed drastically and had an effect…

What does come to your mind if I tell you 1920s in the United States? Let me guess: fancy jewelry, noisy parties, alcohol supplies, flat dresses. That is what everybody knows about the nineteen twenties, but if we look deeper, we can realize that not…