What made them so roaring? inventions - like cars :D music - introduction of jazz more money credit, stocks no big depression in America no rebuilding after the war the entire thing was fought in Europe most change in cities fight against change in rural areas all about social change! constantly pushing boundaries Prohibition Experiment January 1920 - 18th amendment prohibited manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol but not consumption? Reformers considered liquor a cause of corruption led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on the job & other serious social problems At first, saloons close their doors and drunkenness declines. Did not last long, however Al Capone :O Return to ?Normalcy? Warren G. Harding anti-Wilson wants to go back to isolationism
Roaring Twenties
What made them so roaring? inventions - like cars :D music - introduction of jazz more money credit, stocks no big depression in America no rebuilding after the war the entire thing was fought in Europe most change in cities fight against change in rural areas all about social change! constantly pushing boundaries Prohibition Experiment January 1920 - 18th amendment prohibited manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol but not consumption? Reformers considered liquor a cause of corruption led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on the job & other serious social problems At first, saloons close their doors and drunkenness declines. Did not last long, however Al Capone :O Return to ?Normalcy? Warren G. Harding anti-Wilson wants to go back to isolationism
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