USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The 1920s was the first decade to have a nickname: “Roaring 20s” or “Jazz Age.” It was a decade of prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, and marathon dancers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1920s was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought the world closer to home. The telephone connected families and friends.

Detailed explanation-3: -By the 1920’s popular culture was national rather than regional and this new national popular culture was driven by the consumption of readily available, mass-produced goods. This transformation altered the social landscape for women in particular and paved the way for the “New Woman” of the Prohibition Era.

Detailed explanation-4: -The prosperity of the 1920s led to new patterns of consumption, or purchasing consumer goods like radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products or clothing. The expansion of credit in the 1920s allowed for the sale of more consumer goods and put automobiles within reach of average Americans.