1920's

During the 1920s. There were many important events happened and change the American society.



These were an example of important events.
1. Women right to vote
2. Prohibition
3. Mafia influence
4. Flapper
5. Jazz age
6. Ku Klux Klan
7. Stock Market Crashed led to Great Depression
8. Harlem Renaissance
9. Loss Generation



The Lost Generation the self-exiled expatriates who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. These writers, looking for freedom of thought and action, changed the face of modern writing. Realistic and rebellious, they wrote what they wanted and fought censorship for profanity and sexuality. They incorporated Freudian ideas into their characters and styles. This group included F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The beginning of the 1920s period was the top period of the American history. Beginning with President Wilson, President Coolidge, President Harding, and by the end of the 1920s, American people blamed President Hoover for all the trouble they had such as Great Depression.

Source and Pictures: http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html