The Roaring Twenties Dbq Essay
The Roaring Twenties-DBQ Essay 3-12-12
The 1920’s were great years of success and prosperity for all Americans after The Great War which caused so much commotion in The Untied States. The twenties had many changes that were both positive and negative. Many Americans were pleased with their wages increasing and more changes in the way of life while others, such as the victims of intolerance, had more different opinions of this decade. That’s why it’s called the roaring twenties.
Women were always thought of as delicate little pieces of fine china that needed to be locked away from the big, bad world because of how sensitive they were. But the twenties proved that ancient theory wrong. In the Twenties women broke old rules and began …show more content…
Intolerance was on the rise and mass hysteria was corrupting Americans. In many homes of the south blacks were being lynched like crazy. Many innocent blacks were having unfair or no trials at all when they were convicted of a crime. Angry mobs would then take justice into their own hands to the extreme and kill innocent blacks. There were many incidents of discrimination on not only blacks but Jews and foreigners. The Red Scare caused thousands of thought to be communists to be deported. There was also lynching of foreigners such as the Socco and Vezetti case. This caused several Quota acts to reduce the limit of immigrants pouring into America each year. In document six there is an excerpt from “Lunching from a Negro’s Point of View,” and it says that thirty one blacks were killed before the first three months of 1904 and so many people were acting as if Lynching was normal. Many were hanged, shot, or burned because of discrimination and intolerance in the 1920’s. But the last form of Intolerance in the 1920’s was organized crime. Prohibition might have made alcohol against the law but it never stopped anyone from breaking it on a regular basis. Al Capone and his gang of bootleggers made thousands off of illegal liquor in Chicago alone. Many speakeasies were opened in New York City and many were making bath tub gin or moonshine that could make someone very sick or die. The crime caused many to lose their lives and all because of
The 1920’s were great years of success and prosperity for all Americans after The Great War which caused so much commotion in The Untied States. The twenties had many changes that were both positive and negative. Many Americans were pleased with their wages increasing and more changes in the way of life while others, such as the victims of intolerance, had more different opinions of this decade. That’s why it’s called the roaring twenties.
Women were always thought of as delicate little pieces of fine china that needed to be locked away from the big, bad world because of how sensitive they were. But the twenties proved that ancient theory wrong. In the Twenties women broke old rules and began …show more content…
Intolerance was on the rise and mass hysteria was corrupting Americans. In many homes of the south blacks were being lynched like crazy. Many innocent blacks were having unfair or no trials at all when they were convicted of a crime. Angry mobs would then take justice into their own hands to the extreme and kill innocent blacks. There were many incidents of discrimination on not only blacks but Jews and foreigners. The Red Scare caused thousands of thought to be communists to be deported. There was also lynching of foreigners such as the Socco and Vezetti case. This caused several Quota acts to reduce the limit of immigrants pouring into America each year. In document six there is an excerpt from “Lunching from a Negro’s Point of View,” and it says that thirty one blacks were killed before the first three months of 1904 and so many people were acting as if Lynching was normal. Many were hanged, shot, or burned because of discrimination and intolerance in the 1920’s. But the last form of Intolerance in the 1920’s was organized crime. Prohibition might have made alcohol against the law but it never stopped anyone from breaking it on a regular basis. Al Capone and his gang of bootleggers made thousands off of illegal liquor in Chicago alone. Many speakeasies were opened in New York City and many were making bath tub gin or moonshine that could make someone very sick or die. The crime caused many to lose their lives and all because of