History 2020

In history 2020, I am learning about the jazz era, or better yet the 1920s. I love this period in time because its a time when women were being more adventurous and when the world was at peace and having a good time. The beginning of the 1920s was mainly recovering from the wreckage of World War I. We were in serious debt from loaning the allies money but somehow managed to get by until 1929. Women were wearing shorter shirts, shorter sleeves and shorter hairstyles. Before this decade, women who dressed like this would be considered whores. But now it was socially acceptable and the common fashion for women. Women also were able to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment in 1920. It was a time of social wealth, great parties, and fancy cars being made. Jazz even developed as a result of the 1920s. Jazz was not just a man blowing on a saxophone; he had a rhythm and a sexual undertone to the music. Not everything, however, was so pleasant. Several industries took major downfalls. The cotton industry started declining because clothes were shorter and therefore needed less cotton. The coal mining and railroad industries took a downturn because people were driving themselves in cars and the trains therefore weren't running alot and therefore didnt need coal as much. Then in 1929, the economy took a deep downturn which turned into the Great Depression.