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Dbq The 1920s

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J. Paul Getty describes the 1920s as “ … the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.” The 1920s was an age that consisted of many social and political changes throughout America. The changes occured dramatically in these three different topics: economics, racism, and women’s suffrage. It created more jobs and more opportunities for the American people, fixed the major problems of racism against African Americans, and changed women's norms by making the “housewife” perspective less common, and driving more women towards a rebellious era. These three changes of the 1920s made it to become famously known as “The Roaring ‘20s.” The roaring ‘20s was an age of very many economic changes throughout America creating more jobs and more opportunities for the people. A huge economic change was that more American families …show more content…

Many people up and left to move into the big cities, leaving many things behind. They thought they could make more money for less work by getting a job at the factories. People were running and telling about the amazing jobs the factories were giving them making more people come into the city (Document 2a). Companies in the city then grew larger causing a huge economic change in America, creating new jobs for all the new people moving to the cities. The men started to return from World War I and increased the employment rate while gaining profit for the people and the companies because of the production boom. That then continued to have a positive effect on the companies because of the increase in sales (Document 1). Because of the increases in sales, people had more money laying around, which brought many people to invest their money, making it a traditional value during the 1920s. The stock market was on the rise, and at first it seemed to be mostly the rich people that invested. Stock brokers then started to make deals with the

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