THE ROARING TWENTIES

the 1920s

AI OVERVIEW

The U.S. economy in the 1920s, known as the "Roaring Twenties," experienced a boom driven by new technologies like mass production and electricity, the rise of consumer culture, and pro-business government policies. While wealth increased and many Americans bought new goods on credit, this prosperity was unevenly distributed, with a struggling agricultural sector and growing income inequality, setting the stage for the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the ensuing Great Depression.

100 YEARS AGO

Women could vote, not Eartha

#MissAmerica pageant established, Eartha could not enter

The #LincolnMemorial was dedicated in Washington D.C.

First #WinterOlympics, held in France

The #Scopes #Monkeytrial took place

The Assembly line

Widespread Electricity

Buy Now Pay Later Installment Plans

#GrandOleOpry’s first #radiobroadcast

First flight to the #NorthPole

The Great #MississippiRiver flood occurred

#CharlesLindbergh in the #SpiritofSaintLouis made the first nonstop #transatlantic flight

#AmeliaEarhart became the first woman to fly over the #AtlanticOcean

The #SaintValentine’s Day Massacre took place

The #StockMarket crashed

And in Eartha and Eugene’s World

The United States was 150 years old

#CalvinCoolidge was President

#Prohibition was alive and well