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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age In 1920's America - known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties - everybody seemed to have money.
In 1931, a journalist named Frederick Lewis Allen published a volume of informal history that did more to shape the popular image of the 1920s than any book ever written by a professional historian.
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However, there is plenty of evidence that all was not well with the American economy in the 1920s, and in 1928 the 'boom' began to slow down.
Probably one of the most dramatic decades in United States history, the 1920s had it all.
Illinois Trails History and Genealogy presents "The 1920s"
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Cartoons appeared in much of the print material. The following cartoons are from The American Issue.BBC - GCSE Bitesize: The 1920s overview
The US started the 20th century as a country with enormous potential, and finished the century as the world's only superpower.
Some useful stuff here for any English lit year 12s as we will soon be starting The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. All of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 but the real story starts in 1917. The Great Gatsby scrutinises the futility of the American dream against a backdop of eyebrow raising wealth and materialistic obsession - if nothing else it's a great read and probably pretty useful to our non lit students too! by jws_english Jan 2