Roaring 20s - A Quick Look

The era is called the Roaring Twenties because it describes the aggressive air that hovered in America during 1920s

. Sometimes, it is also named as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance or the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. However it's called, the period personifies the beginning of Modern America. From the 1920's hairstyles to the mainstream conquests of jazz, the Roaring Twenties exemplifies a time of change for everyone, a change that may somehow be viewed as both good and bad for modern America.

North America isn't the only country that experienced the roaring twenties, Paris, London and Berlin also experienced the roar. It highlights the period's social, artistic and cultural dynamism, including the several inventions and discoveries which signified exceptional industrial growth and an increase of consumer demand and aspirations that eventually led to a considerable change in lifestyle at that time.

There were close to 150,000 anarchists or Communists living in the U.S. during this decade. Public confusion began in North America and spread like wildfire to Europe which was then rebuilding itself. North America, on the other hand, was headed the other direction and went back into provincialism. Ku Klux Klan reappeared and immigration laws became restraining and limiting.

The twenties was the end of the first word war and weapons were no longer needed so the US focused into a more peaceful economy. During that period, the minimum wage was $5 which was adequate during that time. Development of infrastructures started to soar high. Because of these developments, America became the richest country in the world.

The second half of the roaring twenties was also called the Golden Twenties since economic development soared in Germany, Britain and France.

The 1920s steered and enriched American writing with remarkable works from renowned authors like Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, F., Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. Jazz Age came in with a distinctive kind of American music. The genre of Jazz, which started as a medium for expressing African sentiments, now produced great music players like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. Some have even brought their jazz influences to Broadway and concert halls.

Entertainment around America began to leave its footprints as we follow them today. Alice in Wonderland, the first cartoon that Walt Disney produced, happened during the twenties. Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino are a few of the brilliant actors during that period who got great box office success and they introduced dances like Foxtrot, Charleston and Flagpole sitting and flying stunts. Sports figures such as Babe Ruth became heroes.

by: Anne Torres

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