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This 5 page paper gives an overview of the 1920s, also called the "Roaring 20s" or the "Jazz Age." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the most devastating. This paper gives an overview of the period. Overview The sometimes excessive life in America in the 20s may well have to do with the tensions of
the decade that preceded it. The years immediately after WWI were "tumultuous," as a postwar "economic boom coexisted with rapid increases in consumer prices" (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). Labor
unions, which had not struck during the war, now walked out, and in 1919, "race riots occurred, reflecting apprehension over the emergence of a New Negro who had seen military
service or gone north to work in war industry" (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). In addition, Americans became fearful of what appeared to be an "international revolutionary movement" due to
the 1917 Bolshevik revolution (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). By mid-1920, the "Red scare" had died out, but the hysteria it first generated indicates that feelings at the time were
running high. President Wilson, who had opposed the war was finally forced to send troops; distracted by the conflict and incapacitated by a stroke, Wilson "mishandled almost every postwar issue.
The booming economy began to collapse in mid-1920" (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). Wilson made such a shambles of things that the Republicans Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, easily
won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons economic recession, but by 1923, "prosperity was back. For the next six
years the country enjoyed the strongest economy in its history, at least in urban areas" (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). In order to support their pro-business ideas, the Republicans "tried
to create the most favorable conditions for U.S. industry" by passing legislation that favored U.S. companies, "guaranteeing U.S. manufacturers in one field after another a monopoly of the domestic market,
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