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The 1920s are called the Booming Twenties or the Roaring Twenties because during that era there was lots of excitement. Considering that a war had just ended and the troops had been dismissed. Now, they had time to spend with their families. Also, the African Americans were in the whirlwind of the Harlem Renaissance. All the African Americans were free, meaning that they were no longer slaves. The main reason why the Roaring Twenties is called what it is, is because the people of the 1920s who had so much to say.

The Roaring Twenties also had illegal pubs called "speak easies" that sold alcohol to people. When alcohol was illegal in the 1920s it was called the Prohibition. Also, the speak easies attracted people who involved themselves in illegal acts such as Prostitution Gambling.

Some more information is here in bullet points:

  • Americans spent/wasted their the money frequently
  • Flappers had a huge influence on the American woman's fashion taste
  • Flappers wore shorter skirts than women ever before
  • The Sacco & Vanzetti case
  • People bought many automobiles (Ford's Model A)
  • People bought many radios (people would sit for hours in front of their radios and listen to shows, it was like what TV is now)
  • People bought many TVs (people became addicted to their TVs and TVs changed the entire family life [parents wouldn't hire babysitters as much, children would eat in front of the TV instead of at the dinner table, and violence appeared like never before])
  • After a brief post war recession industry revived and offered Americans a bounty of consumer goods
  • The middle class were now able to afford electrical appliances
  • Vacuum cleaners became very popular
  • Washing machines became very popular
  • A booming Stock Market
  • The 1920s is also called the Jazz Age because jazz was invented in this era
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