How Far Did the Lives of the American People Change in the Period 1918?
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In the 1920’s in America many lives changed and many did not go back to how it was before the 1920’s. They exported and imported natural resources. The roaring twenties changed many of the attitudes of people and lead women to be individual and free without control from their husbands. There were many problems in the farming industries as the farm income dropped dramatically. Women started to get the vote but they still couldn’t be part of congress. Prohibition also changed America as it brought more crime and criminals in America as the rate of crimes and criminals went up so quick. IT also changed a lot for the African Americans as slavery ended and that was a break through for them. There were fewer deaths for them and they were more able to play jazz music so they had more appreciation for them from the whites. There are many more reasons why America changed in the 1920’s and in this Essay I will explain in more detail the reasons how it changed and I shall also mention a couple more reasons how and why it changed.
It could be argued that before the 1920’s America was a very strong country, it had many natural resources and it was increasing and expanding. It didn’t need to import many raw materials and didn’t need to export all its goods. It was large and growing rapidly. When the First world war reached America many countries wanted natural resources from their country to make war machinery and ammunition so in the later years the there was a decrease in the amount of the natural resources , production was very high as they had lots of supplies of natural raw material. Source 13 shows the amount of USA industrial production in comparison to World industrial production and it clearly shows difference in production to the world, as the USA has produced way more all together than the world which clearly this source is useful because it shows the power of the rise in the USA industrial production. This is a massive change as most countries now wanted to...
It could be argued that before the 1920’s America was a very strong country, it had many natural resources and it was increasing and expanding. It didn’t need to import many raw materials and didn’t need to export all its goods. It was large and growing rapidly. When the First world war reached America many countries wanted natural resources from their country to make war machinery and ammunition so in the later years the there was a decrease in the amount of the natural resources , production was very high as they had lots of supplies of natural raw material. Source 13 shows the amount of USA industrial production in comparison to World industrial production and it clearly shows difference in production to the world, as the USA has produced way more all together than the world which clearly this source is useful because it shows the power of the rise in the USA industrial production. This is a massive change as most countries now wanted to...