History speech

The 20’s was a time of change in the United States. The economy started to boom, growth had begun in education and in its importance, there was even a positive change in the culture, and even in the everyday lives of Americans in general.

After WWI, the United Sates was to become #1 in industrial manufacturing and expansion and also in the development of new technology. World War I decimated Europe leaving the United States to be still functioning in a sense. The US had the capabilities, resources, and the manpower to keep running and have the ability to manufacture the goods and products that Europe needed. More jobs were needed and created to help with the growth in manufacturing.

    Though there were more jobs, there were still very few “suitable” jobs for women leaving them to have little professional opportunities. For the women who did work, they came from the working class, these were the women who had to juggle being a wife, a mother, and a worker. By working, women had started to change the norm for themselves. No longer did they have to be a stay at home mothers but they too could be professionals. They showed that men did not have to be the sole breadwinner for the family.

Education had also been of great importance for children during this time. Schools and colleges helped provide children with new social patterns, their own hobbies, interests, and activities. Because of the boom in the auto industry, children (more specifically teenagers) no longer had to work on farms but were now able to leave rural areas to the city to work at factories. Working on farms did not have a need for a formal education, but with the modernization economy, specialized education was a need.

Harlem, New York the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance. By the end of World War I, Harlem became the nation’s largest and most influential place for African American communities. Jazz musicians from the Harlem renaissance included Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Fletcher Henderson. These were the people who helped spread African American culture to the nation by trying to show its importance and richness through music.

Nativism was big during this time. The emergency immigration act of 1921 had established a quota that limited the amount of immigrants allowed in the nation.  Followed by the National Origins Act of 1924, it only further strengthened the exclusionists’ laws in Act of 1921. These restrictions also were a point to help keep jobs in the US to only Americans rather than to immigrants. These new jobs that were being created in this time were needed more for the soldiers who were coming back from the War than the immigrants.

 These advancements, growths, and changes are what made the 1920’s to be known as the, roaring 20’s a time where the United States was at an all-time high and people were living the “American Dream”.